Root access method

[djwjfkrhs2]

Hi, I’ve been doing something stupid so I’m trying to get some help.

• JetPack 4.2.1 Use

It was being used without setting the password for the root account.

Permission errors kept popping up while running the program, so I entered the sudo permission deletion command without thinking.

$ gpasswd -d myID sudo

The project in progress is running with sudo, so the project cannot proceed because there is no sudo privilege.

There is a license issued on the SD card, so it should not be initialized.

[Summary]

1. Do not set sudo initial password
2. Delete one account from the sudo group
3. Unable to initialize SD card

How can I access root in this situation?

Or I need advice if there is another way.

thank you for reading

[DaveYYY]

Hi,

I don’t think there’s any other way you can recover from it except re-flashing.
What do you mean with

There is a license issued on the SD card, so it should not be initialized.

?

[djwjfkrhs2]

I received and installed Concurrent’s NightStar license, but since the license is for one user, re-flashing is complicated. (Need to ask Concurrent’s NightStar)

[linuxdev]

Just a note: Any time a Jetson is flashed on a Windows style partition format it will fail to work with sudo due to needing SUID root; this in turn is something that a Windows format does not understand (Windows partitions lose most of the finer permissions system of Linux). If it turns out sudo were to fail after a flash, then it probably means the system the source of the rootfs is from, or copied to, lacks ext4 (which understands SUID).