Re: Here there be Dragons!

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, using Virtual Box.  Using an older Ubuntu (16.04 LTS) and yes, it 
has sudo, but not su.  So you can execute one command at a time as root, 
but you can't get into "root mode".


On 2/3/2019 12:26 PM, Sam_L wrote:
> Are you building the virtual machines on top of Microsoft Windows?  If 
> so, are you using Oracle Virtual Box, VMWare, or something else?
>
> Doesn't Ubuntu have a Sudo command?
>
> Don't get lost...
>
> Sam
>
>
>
> On 2/3/2019 12:21 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> > Okay, folks, I'm beginning a dark, dangerous journey.  I just wanted 
> > to leave notice in case I disappear; a search party may be needed.  
> > My goal is to create a network of interconnected Linux machines, all 
> > of which can be accessed by API from anything (including the IBM i).  
> > To that end, I'm installing LAMP stacks on Ubuntu virtual machines 
> > and trying to get them to talk to one another.  I'm learning acronyms 
> > like LTS and SSH and PDT and strange incantations like /etc/network 
> > and php7.0-curl.
> >
> > I've already got several VMs created.  And I could swear that new 
> > ones are popping into existence without my intervention. But it just 
> > might be late night hallucinations.  Anyway, don't be surprised if 
> > you hear strange noises from this part of the world.
> >
> > Here there be dragons...