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Synology DSM driver for Realtek RTL8152/RTL8153/RTL8156 based adapters
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the usual lecture from the local System Administrator #276

Closed davidhoppcpa closed 11 months ago

davidhoppcpa commented 1 year ago

Hi folks, I am a complete noob. After running the command in SSH terminal, I get the "We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator..." message; and it asks for a "Password:." Which password do I enter here? Thanks for your time. (I apologize if this is the wrong place for this "issue." Thank you again.) Password

armaan-novus commented 1 year ago

Hi @davidhoppcpa ,

That message is a relic from a bygone era. sudo is a program you run from a normal user account to elevate your privileges to that of an administrator (the "super user" or su). Presumably, it's necessary at the beginning of that command because install requires admin privileges to run. It used to be the case that Unix-like systems were mostly servers with many users connected to them at once. Running sudo on such systems would give you system-wide access, granting you the ability to overwrite other users' files (whether by accident or not).

Anyway, the password prompt there is for the same user password that you used to ssh into the NAS to begin with. Certain commands like sudo just want your password again.

armaan-novus commented 1 year ago

By the way, it looks like you don't have your User Home directories enabled. It's a small matter, but it might be worth enabling them if you're going to SSH into the NAS frequently. To do so, follow the steps under the User Home heading here: https://kb.synology.com/en-af/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/file_user_advanced?version=7

bb-qq commented 1 year ago

@davidhoppcpa, have your questions been answered? If so, I would like to close the issue.