Using sudo
How to run commands as a superuser from the Dataplicity terminal
On opening of Dataplicity remote terminal by default you're logged in as "Dataplicity" user on your remote device. This is an unprivileged service account. If you want to use sudo
command from the Dataplicity terminal, for example to allow you to install programmes or manage your device, you must first switch to a more privileged user account and enter the password for that account.
On a Raspberry Pi, the default pi
account is suitable. To switch to the pi
user, generally indicated by the pi@raspberrypi:/ $
prompt, just type:
su pi
You will be asked to enter the pi
account password which, unless you have changed it, is raspberry
.
From there you can sudo
as normal:
sudo cat /etc/shadow
Updated over 3 years ago