pkexec root password?

[Alturis]

So I might have gotten myself into a pickle here. Was attempting to enable write permissions for etc/emulationstation so that I could SFTP some config changes there.

I mistakenly, apparently, tried to do the entire etc folder with

sudo -R -v chmod 777 etc

from the root folder

Now I cannot connect via SFTP at all, and when I tried to repair this with

sudo -R -v chmod 775 etc

I got

sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable
and it errors

I looked up how to fix that and apparently

pkexec chmod 775 /etc/sudoers

Is supposed to fix it. But the problem now is that pkexec appears to work exclusively with the root user and it seems that retropie disables the root user. At any rate it asks for a password for the root user and I have not been able to find out what that password should be by default. Or maybe it simply fails no matter what password is entered if he root user is disabled?

[Alturis]

Well, I had all of my setup progress saved so I am in the process now of starting with a fresh image and will be able to quickly get back to where I was. Would rather that the etc folder and all of its children be properly permissioned as it should be and will be wiser now when attempting to chmod /etc/emulationstation and only do it to the folder itself.

[BuZz]

If you want to customise es_systems.cfg you don't need to edit the one in /etc/emulationstation

See https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#es_systemscfg-edits

[Alturis]

@buzz
"If you want to customise es_systems.cfg you don't need to edit the one in /etc/emulationstation"

I was actually needing to update art assets in the custom theme that I had customized. But I will check out that link too thanks!

[Alturis]

Ah cool I see it works with themes too. Ah well. ;)