Can not start some Administration applications

[Robert E. Butts]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:57 +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> Odd huh? I am puzzled and wonder what I should do at this point. Any
> ideas?

I would suggest trying to start one or more from the commandline using
gksu (not sudo), for example,

gksu users-admin

If you can get the users module open with admin privileges, I'd suggest
you change those UID's back to what they were before.  

As a workaround (not a solution) you can try adding a NOPASSWD stanza
to /etc/sudoers.  You'll need to boot from a liveCD, mount the /
filesystem, open /etc/sudoers and add this line where appropriate:

Here's mine:

# User privilege specification
root	ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
reb	ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL


# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

HTH