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    • geese howard

      Root user works only with Putty
      Help and Support • root retropie login putty winscp • • geese howard

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    • misterbirra

      Emulationstation not showing up after recent update (it was working with root)
      Help and Support • startup error root emulationstatio • • misterbirra

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      misterbirra

      I've "solved" by keeping "pi" as login user and disabling password when doing sudo
      thanks

    • johnblund

      Emulationstation run without sudo
      Help and Support • root sudo dietpi • • johnblund

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      mitu

      EmulationStaton doesn't need sudo to run and never has.
      We don't support DietPi on the Pi, so I'm not sure you're using the RetroPie main repository or some fork that supports DietPi.

    • DJMoss

      .gnupg missing
      Help and Support • root jzintv fatal gpg error • • DJMoss

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      BuZz

      @djmoss haha. Happens to us all - I often leave files lying around called username@server when I fail to use scpcorrectly (missing : on the end).

      Finding the root folder in /etc is a nice festive surprise :-)

    • SgtJimmyRustles

      Usbromservice changed all the rom folders to root permissions
      Help and Support • usbromservice permission deni root • • SgtJimmyRustles

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      Clyde

      @SgtJimmyRustles said in Usbromservice changed all the rom folders to root permissions:

      Errors when I try a sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi

      chown: changing ownership of '/home/pi/RetroPie': Operation not permitted

      Just a little explanation for this: FAT32 (vfat in Linux) is a Windows file system that doesn't support Linux file permissions and ownerships. Those are determined by the mount options (here: uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022) and are immutable by commands like chmod or chown. Thus, the above error message ist normal behaviour for a vfat mount.

    • cyanxx

      Help!! Accidentally dragged a random directory into another and now its all broken
      Help and Support • directory root ssh help • • cyanxx

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      montelcow

      @cyanxx. Will do Thanks

    • treki

      How can I restrict user rights?
      Help and Support • permissions root user • • treki

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      grant2258

      I would like to add I dont feel retropie cashes in on this they could make a lot of money if they chose to but they dont you get the moral decent project vote no one could dispute that. You project clearly runs itself for it purpose and not for profit.

      Im only talking in licensing terms in general

    • movisman

      RetroPie-Setup installs retropiemenu '.rp' files with root ownership - x86
      Help and Support • ubuntu x86 retropiemenu root • • movisman

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    • youxia

      Is it still possible to ssh as root while emulationstation is working?
      Help and Support • ssh root • • youxia

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      Clyde

      @youxia said in Is it still possible to ssh as root while emulationstation is working?:

      I don't inherently need root in my life

      Well said. 🙂 Good luck with your new build.

    • mindfieldx

      Can't change resolution, /opr/retropie/configs/all is owned by root
      Help and Support • resolution all configs root ownership • • mindfieldx

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      mitu

      @mindfieldx Yes, it's part of the 4.5 release: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/47035624de6e26b52a9c0d7529926c307440a6f5

      0 joolswills committed to RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup fixed: make sure autoconf.cfg is owned by $user when adding/changing values
    • peiobasc

      xin mo with retropie ora odroid no works.
      Help and Support • odroid xu4 xin-mo xinmotek retropie ora root • • peiobasc

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      hansolo77

      Kinda sucks all around. I love both sides here. I've been with the RetroPie group for a couple of years now. I make one little comment about how I wish N64 games ran better on the Pi3, and I got a reply back almost instantly about trying this "Odroid XU4" and the Odroid Arena build. I'd never heard of it before, and thought I'd check them out. I myself made the assumption that this build was still in it's fragile infancy, and bolstered my arrogance around their Discord channel like I owned the place. I had thought that my growing knowledge of how RetroPie works, and how to make things work with it, would help their community advance. I thought I came across cool and helpful but it was mistaken as an arrogant attempt at making the guys over there feel inadequate in their development. Because of that, I was temporary banned from their channel, and muted from their Facebook. I was completely wrong and have come full circle. My knowledge, in fact, is primitive to what the guys over there know and have been doing from the ground up. They've taken a device and built upon it with what they have available, and have come up with a working system that is as good as (if not better in some areas than) the current release of RetroPie for Raspberry Pi's. I've become humbled by the staff and have been trying to assist that community where I can. There are issues, yes, but it's something that is being worked on daily, just like how RetroPie is. They aren't focused on developing for just one SBC either. Think of how LibreELEC is developed to provide Kodi to many devices, not just Pi's. This is where their team has gone too. Yes, RetroPie also supports other devices, but RetroPie falls short in their support. You provide simple instructions on where to start then leave the user in the dust struggling to find help by saying things like "it's YOUR problem" or "contact Odroid". The problem isn't always related to the hardware.

      Anyway, I just wanted to say that I think it's great what both sides are doing for the community. Sure, better support is needed, but that's no reason to say the team is producing "ugly hacks". We need to work together, not distance ourselves further apart.

      There, I've said my peace. Long Live RetroPie and Long Live TheORA!

    • XLUKYX

      DRIVERS
      Help and Support • display driver help support root • • XLUKYX

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      mitu

      Please add more information about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

      How did you install the drivers ? The root account doesn't have a password on the default Retropie image, you need to use the pi user and sudo to gain root access or run commands as root.

    • MosaicDragon

      I screwed up. Updated retropie on root not pi.
      Help and Support • root broken error aborted freeze • • MosaicDragon

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      MosaicDragon

      @mitu Thats where i looked, its gone-vanished of the face of the earth, hope the setup script fixes it

    • Dinsdale

      Editing es_systems... problem after problem - HELP
      Help and Support • permissions root • • Dinsdale

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      Dinsdale

      @mitu That makes sense. I understand. Thanks for your help!

    • Nowun

      Fresh install, having a hard time migrating settings from old card. <Solved, I'm a noob>
      Help and Support • fresh install winscp root error code 3 migrate configs • • Nowun

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      Nowun

      @mitu Thank you!

      I have not done any of this in a while and I noobed out on the basics. Much appreciated.

    • HAILtoSTARSCREAM

      Root Access denied although sshd_config is edited correctly.
      Help and Support • root password ssh • • HAILtoSTARSCREAM

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      dudleydes

      @hailtostarscream If you wish to create a custom version of a theme, then you can create a copy of the theme folder from /etc/emulationstation/themes/ into /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/themes/. The themes folder may need to be created.

      Alternatively, you can download the theme from the relevant Github repo and place it in /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/themes/. For example, the snes mini theme can be found at https://github.com/ruckage/es-theme-snes-mini.

    • spud11

      Root password
      Help and Support • root sudoers • • spud11

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      Sano

      IIRC there is no root password.
      Single user mode won't help as it requires root password too, and you need to be root to edit /boot/cmdline.txt in order to remove this.
      So you can :

      use a windows computer to add init=/bin/sh at the end of cmdline.txt in the /boot (fat) partition of the SD card use a linux computer (live distro if you don't have one), then mount root partition of the SD card and change ownership of sudoers.
    • User2314

      Retropie requesting password when shutting down through GUI
      Help and Support • shutdown ubuntu 16.04 root • • User2314

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      Bidulle

      It works.
      Thanks

    • m1s3rys1gn4l

      Root User Help
      Help and Support • root password user • • m1s3rys1gn4l

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      m1s3rys1gn4l

      thanks :)

    • crozen

      [SOLVED] Can't start RetroPie on Linux Mint - permission denied
      Help and Support • linux mint permission denied root • • crozen

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      crozen

      Ok guys, this time it works fine.
      You were right BuZz.
      Ty all.