Administration screens gone..

[Matthew Kuiken]

Chanchao wrote:
> 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  
>
> ?
>   


If you type 'groups' at a prompt, it'll tell you which groups your user 
is a part of.

My default output:
$ groups
<username> adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev lpadmin 
scanner admin windrvusers

sudo adduser <user> admin

should add the <user> to the admin group.  For more info, man adduser.

-Matt