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Need help with a weird sudo error.
I'm fairly new to unix and I was trying to change the name of my host and my user. I changed the name in /hostname using this: gksudo gedit /etc/hostname I then tried changing the name back but it still gave the same error: {env_reset, secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin User "User" may run the following commands on this host: (ALL) ALL And when I su it gives this error: Cannot execute "User": No such file or directory Any help would be appreciated

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I'm fairly new to unix and I was trying to change the name of my host and my user.
I changed the name in /hostname using this:

gksudo gedit /etc/hostname

I then tried changing the name back but it still gave the same error:

{env_reset, secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin

User "User" may run the following commands on this host:
(ALL) ALL

And when I su it gives this error:
Cannot execute "User": No such file or directory

Any help would be appreciated

(i meant it in this format sorry for double post :P
 
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ssh-argv0

SSH-ARGV0(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					      SSH-ARGV0(1)

NAME

     ssh-argv0 -- replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling

SYNOPSIS

     hostname | user@hostname [-l login_name] [command]

     hostname | user@hostname [-afgknqstvxACNTX1246] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-e escape_char] [-i identity_file] [-l login_name]
     [-m mac_spec] [-o option] [-p port] [-F configfile] [-L port:host:hostport] [-R port:host:hostport] [-D port] [command]

DESCRIPTION

     ssh-argv0 replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling.	If you link to this script with a hostname then executing the link is
     equivalent to having executed ssh with that hostname as an argument.  All other arguments are passed to ssh and will be processed normally.

OPTIONS

     See ssh(1).

FILES

     See ssh(1).

AUTHORS

     OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.  Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
     Theo de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and created OpenSSH.  Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
     protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.  Jonathan Amery wrote this ssh-argv0 script and the associated documentation.

SEE ALSO

     ssh(1)

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