On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 05:26:43 +0000, A. Dumas wrote:

> bob prohaska  wrote:
>> A. Dumas  wrote:
>>> Normally it works without sudo, though. Could be something wrong with
>>> your Raspbian installation or at least s/t non-standard, perhaps like
>>> using a different user account than pi.
>>
>> I am using s different account than pi, but I tried my double-damndest
>> to make all the changes required to get along without the pi account
>> and _thought_ I'd succeded.
>>
>> Guess not 8-(
>
> Might not be your fault; apparently user pi is hardwired in a lot of
> RPi-specific code :(

That wouldn't surprise me at all - just look at the ever-increasing list
of hard-wired user names used by any of the mainstream Linux distros.

That said, I've never used pi on my RPi - one of the first things I did
was to set up another login and configure it to work in much the samw way
as my usual logins on by Fedora systems.


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