Sudo not possible

[oluminion (Adrian)]

Hi,

since i backed up openhabian and reinstalled it, i can’t use sudo any more. No matter what i type in with sudo, i get the following message (example of apt update):

Sorry, user openhabian is not allowed to execute ‘/usr/bin/apt update’ as root on openHABianPi.

So i also can’t use visudo or edit sudoers to give openhabian rights.

Can anyone give me some hint on how to correct this?

Thank you.

[Josar]

Maybe there is some information that helps.
Maybe not.

OpenHAB sudo [Exec Binding]

There are situations where you want to use the Exec Binding to trigger something. Sometimes you need the sudo privilege to do this. I would rather try some group specification to reduce the user rights to a minimum, but here is how i got openHAB to be able to execute sudo. Try executing a command as openhab sudo -u openhab sudo -l We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of other…

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

See

https://playwithmyled.com/2012/10/change-raspberry-pi-lost-password/

for how to boot into single user mode. This gives you a root level terminal. From there you can run visudo and/or add openhab to the sudoers group or fix whatever you need to at the root level. Then remove the changes to cmdline.txt in the boot partition and reboot and you should be fixed.

However, this sounds a whole lot like something went wrong with the install and I’m not sure I would trust that something else isn’t wrong. If it were me, I’d reinstall.