Not allowed to execute when using terminal to install HMA-VPN
by affeman from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4YF0C)
Hi guys!
This situation drives me crazy. I've installed a fresh copy of Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and I want to have my VPN up and running but it fails miserably.
I've installed the OS like anyone else and ended up with two accounts, one I named administrator and one that I use daily named yufi (yeah, that name came about in windows when I got tired of reinstalling it and hammered my keyboard randomly for a name, somehow I liked it and it got stuck ever since :-) Sorry, got off topic here ;-)
My yufi account is an ordinary account with no permissions, as it should be. When I use the GUI to install some software I need to type my admin password and everything works as it should. Some software, such as HMA-VPN must be installed via the terminal and here is where my problems start.
When following instructions how to install the VPN the terminal asks me for password for yufi, I don't understand why because it has no permissions to install anything, but I do as I'm asked, and it doesn't install it because I don't have the permission (go figure). In the GUI for other programs it asks me for my administrator password and that works.
So I've been looking for answers about that and why but either I don't understand what I'm doing wrong or something is missing. This was also the reason to why I had to reinstall the OS again as my attempt to fix this made my computer hang and behave strange and now I dare not to try again without some expertise.
I know this may not be much to work with but it's a start. Tell me what you need to know and I'll give it.
See ya later then, I hope :-/
This situation drives me crazy. I've installed a fresh copy of Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and I want to have my VPN up and running but it fails miserably.
I've installed the OS like anyone else and ended up with two accounts, one I named administrator and one that I use daily named yufi (yeah, that name came about in windows when I got tired of reinstalling it and hammered my keyboard randomly for a name, somehow I liked it and it got stuck ever since :-) Sorry, got off topic here ;-)
My yufi account is an ordinary account with no permissions, as it should be. When I use the GUI to install some software I need to type my admin password and everything works as it should. Some software, such as HMA-VPN must be installed via the terminal and here is where my problems start.
When following instructions how to install the VPN the terminal asks me for password for yufi, I don't understand why because it has no permissions to install anything, but I do as I'm asked, and it doesn't install it because I don't have the permission (go figure). In the GUI for other programs it asks me for my administrator password and that works.
So I've been looking for answers about that and why but either I don't understand what I'm doing wrong or something is missing. This was also the reason to why I had to reinstall the OS again as my attempt to fix this made my computer hang and behave strange and now I dare not to try again without some expertise.
I know this may not be much to work with but it's a start. Tell me what you need to know and I'll give it.
See ya later then, I hope :-/