On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:39:29PM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Thanks. Apologies if I'm missing something, but I don't understand how this > situation could have arisen other than because of password errors somewhere > or other. > > Jerry said: > > > When I booted the system > > and try to do "apt-get update and apt-get upgrade" using "sudo" it would > > not let me do that. Said I was not a sudo user. I then tried "su root" > > which failed as well as it said I was not a sudo user. > > Surely su doesn't require sudo?
I'm guessing some parts of Jerry's text contain errors. This would be one of the more likely bits.