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    mk mk

    phew! adding a repository and, especially, a key for it, to apt without a root terminal is PAINFUL. It took me three tries (two different syntaxes for the commands which each assumed root, and each brought me one step closer), and in the last step I had to use to man pages to construct the correct command to add the (by now downloaded) key - with sudo. !grrr

    Thursday, 02-Oct-14 16:05:27 UTC from oracle.skilledtests.com
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      mk mk

      @mk now I would like to know how to convert a "rootless" system to one where root is a second-class citizen (root terminal and such, but no root login). !grrr

      Thursday, 02-Oct-14 16:06:29 UTC from oracle.skilledtests.com
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      dragnucs dragnucs

      @mk can't you get root with `sudo su -`?

      Friday, 03-Oct-14 12:06:42 UTC from quitter.no
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        @dragnucs yes, that worked, but often I prefer to just start a root terminal and have its background color indicate that I'm root there; I should be able to get a similar setup in Mint, and I think I'm halfway there. groceries # :)

        Friday, 03-Oct-14 12:16:21 UTC from oracle.skilledtests.com