Can no longer run certain programs

[Mark Fraser]

On Sunday, 25 June 2017 18:27:58 BST José Queiroz wrote:

> 2017-06-25 10:48 GMT-03:00 Mark Fraser <mfraz74+ubuntu at gmail.com>:
> > Recently upgraded to Kubuntu 17.04 and I needed to reformat an SD card,
> > but my password was denied with the message:
> > 
> > Permission denied.
> > Possibly incorrect password, please try again.
> > On some systems, you need to be in a special group (often: wheel) to use
> > this program.
> > 
> > It worked if I ran it from the command, so why isn't it liking my
> > password?
> > > 
> check that you still part of groups like "disk", "cdrom", and "wheel",
> "sudo", and "wheel" itself.
 
There doesn't seem to be a wheel group in /etc/group and another computer that 
doesn't have a wheel group is working OK.

My groups are:
mfraser adm lp dialout cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare.

The two programs I have found this with are partitionmanager and kuser.
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