sudo not working on Linux

[marcinbojko]

Version: 1.0.78 Platform: linux 4.18.0-13-generic Plugins: altair, clickable-links, quick-cmds, save-output, scrollbar, shell-selector, theme-gruvbox, title-control

Possible regression with sudo:

sudo: effective uid is not 0, is /usr/bin/sudo on a file system with the 'nosuid' option set or an NFS file system without root privileges?

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[elielam]

Same here !

Ubuntu 18.04 Terminus 1.0.78

[raphaelriehl]

Same issue and same config as @elielam.

[xingchenyefeng]

Same here !

Ubuntu 18.04 Terminus 1.0.78

[mrpatg]

Same issue

Ubuntu 19.04 Terminus 1.0.78

[ozlevka-work]

Have the same Ubuntu 19.04 Terminus 1.0.78

[lwyj123]

Same here !

Ubuntu 18.04 Terminus 1.0.78

[ghost]

Same issue here

ArchLinux 5.1.5-arch1-2-ARCH Terminus 1.0.78

[NonStatic2014]

Same here. Any workaround?

Ubuntu 16.04 Terminus 1.0.78

[mrpatg]

I went with the previous release and didn't have the same issue there.

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019, 2:26 PM Klein Hu notifications@github.com wrote:

Same here. Any workaround?

Ubuntu 16.04 Terminus 1.0.78

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[NonStatic2014]

Thank you to @mrpatg

The current workaround would be rolling back to 1.0.77. In the meanwhile, 1.0.79 still has this issue.

[melonwool]

Same issue here

Deepin GNU/Linux 15.10.1 Terminus 1.0.79

[MaXZon3]

Same here.

Linux Mint 19.1

[ghost]

The problem seem to be electron v5. https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18521

[RafaelGondi]

Same issue here.

Version: 1.0.80 Platform: linux 4.18.0-21-generic

[rfuy]

Same issue here.

Version: 1.0.80 Platform: gentoo x86_64 Linux 5.1.7

[KubrikDevelopmentStudio]

Same issue here.

Version: 1.0.81 Platform: linux 4.19.10-041910-generic

[Paulpatou]

Same issue here.

Version: 1.0.81 Platform: Linux 4.15.0-51-generic / Ubuntu 16.04

[ilkerhalil]

Same here ! Ubuntu 18.04 Terminus 1.0.78

[Undomyr]

Same issue.

Version: 1.0.82 Platform: Linux 5.1.8-1-Manjaro

[kankaristo]

If you're using tmux (screen may also work?), here's another workaround:

1. Launch a new tmux session in some other terminal program (e.g. gnome-terminal)
2. Detach from the session
3. Attach to the session in Terminus

...and sudo works (probably because sudo is not a child process of Terminus/Electron, but of the tmux server).

Any new tmux window or session (started from within this session) will also have working sudo.

[an333]

Same issue here.

Version: 1.0.87 Platform: Linux Mint 19.1 & KDE neon 15.6

[juanmaioli]

Same issue here

Deepin GNU/Linux 15.11 Terminus 1.0.87

[mattisdada]

I am also experiencing this for the last few releases Terminus 1.0.87 Fedora Workstation 30

[jamezpolley]

If you're using tmux (screen may also work?), here's another workaround:

As another alternative, you can ssh localhost. That spawns a new shell that's not a child of Terminus/Electron, so you can sudo from there.

[ElDarco]

Same issue here.

Version: 1.0.87 Platform: Linux Mint 19.1

[reecebenson]

Same issue here.

Version: 1.0.87 Platform: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

[armorsuitable]

Ubuntu Meta 18.04

sudo: effective uid is not 0, is /usr/bin/sudo on a file system with the 'nosuid' option set or an NFS file system without root privileges?

[ghost]

Same issue and output as @AngFl Version: 1.0.87 Platform: Pop!_OS 18.04

[NuSkooler]

The "+1"'s are piling up, I think they get it guys :)

Question for maintainers: What's the status on this? I think not being able to perform sudo-ish commands in Linux generally makes the terminal useless there :(

[Eugeny]

@nuskooler it's currently blocked by https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18521 , so I'm waiting for the Electron to react. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that there is a workaround without them actually fixing this.

[shanoaice]

So is there any way to do sudo inside terminus? I'm experiencing the same issue.

Version:1.0.88 OS: deepin 15.11

[shanoaice]

I am not sure if you use a pty like node-pty instead of the built in child_process would work.

[an333]

Sorry for my English. The latest working version for Linux was 1.0.77, all subsequent ones, including 1.0.88, do not work correctly with SUDO. What is the point of releasing versions for Linux if the main function does not work in them?

[shanoaice]

Sorry for my English. The latest working version for Linux was 1.0.77, all subsequent ones, including 1.0.88, do not work correctly with SUDO. What is the point of releasing versions for Linux if the main function does not work in them?

I thought the releasing progress may be automated, the author may not want to ruin the automation so he kept the default releasing.

[shanoaice]

@Eugeny Could you try to use something like node-pty in Terminus? This library may help.

[Eugeny]

@ksryy Terminus is using node-pty. Please see my previous reply regarding the upstream bug in Electron

[NuSkooler]

Looks like a fix may have landed in https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18521

[desenvolvedorfmais]

Mint 19.1 ~ 19.2 Versão: 1.0.75 sudo with Terminus running sudo only on version 1.0.75 or lower. Versions 1.0.76 or higher not working sudo

PT BR

sudo com o Terminus funcionando o sudo somente na versão 1.0.75 ou inferior. Versões 1.0.76 ou superior não funcionando o sudo

[Eugeny]

I'm pleased to announce that sudo and other setuid commands now work in Alpha 91

[elijah-rou]

Hi @Eugeny ! I'm still getting this issue in the latest release (92).

Pop_OS! 19.10 Terminus 1.0.92

sudo: effective uid is not 0, is /usr/bin/sudo on a file system with the 'nosuid' option set or an NFS file system without root privileges?

[Paulpatou]

@Eugeny , Same issue with Terminus 1.0.97 sudo: le uid effectif n'est pas 0. Est-ce que /usr/bin/sudo est sur un système de fichiers avec l'option « nosuid » ou un système de fichiers NFS sans privilèges root ?

[iggz]

Just install ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS this morning and killed all morning on this issue. Cant find a solution anywhere.

iggz@iggz-ub:~$ su - Password: su: Authentication failure iggz@iggz-ub:~$ sudo -i sudo: effective uid is not 0, is /usr/bin/sudo on a file system with the 'nosuid' option set or an NFS file system without root privileges?

[patjgardner]

Same problem with Fedora 31. Looking into the problem I read this https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/19953 which mentions that the electron fix only applies to unsandboxed. So running 'terminus --no-sandbox' allows me to successfully run sudo in the shell without the error.

[archit120]

This doesn't seem to be working for me. I'm on 1.0.98, Ubuntu 18.04

I'm using the bash terminal which might be the cause.

[mattisdada]

This issue was resolved for me for a while, but just updated (alpha 103) and it has reappeared once more :(

Running Fedora 31, zsh 5.7.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)

[patjgardner]

I've updated to 1.0.103 (also on Fedora 31) using the Linux RPM and don't have the issue @mattisdada is reporting. I've tried sudo in both bash and zsh and it still works as expected for me.

[mattisdada]

@patjgardner Thanks for trying to replicate :)

I rebooted my machine after hearing you weren't having any issues, and the problem resolved itself. There must have been an issue during the upgrade because I still had the older Terminus running (101 maybe?) and maybe it didn't properly shutdown

You can probably close this again @Eugeny, sorry for raising a false alarm! I should've rebooted before reporting

[jorepstein]

I was experiencing this issue again on Ubuntu 18.04.4. Then I realized I had the alpha (105) installed so I installed 104 instead, and the problem seems to have been fixed.

[guschinaglia]

Same in OpenSUSE

[rahacker2006]

Same in Ubuntu 20.04