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Hello Jimmie,
Sounds to me like you might have missed setting up the root user or are not logged in as root. The Raspberry Pi OS comes with the pi user setup and it has sudo privileges. By default, the root user is not enabled. This is part of the Prepare your OS to Install Headless (https://github.com/OpenRepeater/scripts/tree/2.2.x#prepare-your-os-to-install-headless) section in the scripts read me.In a nutshell:
- You Start with a bare Raspbian OS
- Under the pi user: You then fully setup SSH, the root user, and ssh privileges.
- You then log out as the pi user and login as the root user
- As the root user: you download and run the script.
My theory is if you are are using a keyboard/monitor instead of ssh, you are still logged in as pi and not root. At the end of the Prepare your OS to Install Headless section under Restart SSH, it says to log out as the pi user and back in as root. You should do this, even if you are using a keyboard/monitor. You do not want to be logged into the pi user at all when the script runs or else the script may not be able to delete the pi user. In other words don’t rely on a su (switch user) command. From you keyboard type ‘exit’ and then log back in as root with the password you set at step 7.
If you are getting errors running the ‘cd /root’ that tells me that you are 1) most likely logged in as the pi user. Now the pi user has sudo privileges, so to check this you could type ‘sudo cd /root’ if that works then you likely enabled the root user. Don’t bank on that, as that directly might still exist with the root user disabled. 2) you may have not setup the root user. Best thing to do is to log out and log in as root with the password you should have setup at step 7.
If you can get in there, then you are golden. If you didn’t get past the ‘cd /root’ then that tells me that you haven’t run the script yet. So you can pickup where you left off. Note that if you follow the other steps in the read me prior to this point then you should have SSH and the root user properly setup. You can also log in headless via SSH.
73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871OpenRepeater is offered free of charge. Find out how you can support us.
