>
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 21:40 -0700, Matthew Kuiken
wrote:
>
>>> Secondly, it may have happened while adding
another user with admin
>>> rights.. and ended up with nobody with
sudo/admin rights! I
>>> managed to
>>> correct this by going into recovery mode and so
a 'visudo' to
>>> update the
>>> sudoers file and adding my username as (ALL)
ALL (same as root).
>>>
>>> So after that I can sudo again, but my admin
screens are still gone.
>>> What can be my next step to fix this?
>
>> Is your user still a member of group admin?
>
> I'm not sure.. I also lost the 'Users and Groups'
screen so I can't
> really check. If I check the /etc/passwd file then the
main group is
> the same as the username.
>
> I guess I should do a:
>
> sudo usermod <my_username> --groups admin
--append
>
The groups command will show which groups you belong to.
The /etc/
group file lists the members of each group.
There a number of ways to add a user to a group. I usually
use 'sudo
adduser <username> <groupname>'.
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