User accounts not accessible

[Donny George]

hey mark

thankyou for the help and sorry for the late reply as i was sick

but i just did the usedel -R loginname

and it served the purpose

thanks again

have a nice day
don


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> Donny George wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Donny George wrote:
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> I have an ubuntu 8.04 client installed and have a first user admin1 and
> >>> second user admin. my problem is that i cant get the acces to the
> >> synaptic
> >>> user account manager as i want to delete one of these users. it only
> >>> displays a window which says
> >>>
> >>> Could not authenticate
> >>> An unexpected error occured
> >>>
> >>> and this is the error message for both the users
> >>>
> >>> could some one help  as i want to delete the user admin1 and give the
> >> user
> >>> admin administrator previlages, is there a command line statement to do
> >> this
> >>> ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Of course there are command line options for this.  But I need to get
> >> you to clarify something, which user currently has sudo access?  Your
> >> best bet is to 'sudo visudo' and edit the sudo rights for the user you
> >> want to have sudo access.  The sudoers file is pretty well documented.
> >> Then, when you are sure you can sudo into basic functions with the new
> >> user, you can userdel that user and go into visudo and remove that user
> >> from the sudoers file.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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> >
> >
> > hello mark
> >
> > i can access sudo with both the users but somehow i cant manage the
> format
> > to edit the visudo, but at the mean time i think i will be able to use
> the
> > command userdel but just wondering that i dont mess up things ? anything
> to
> > be careful about wen i delete a user ?
> >
>
> You can't manage the format?  I don't quite follow.  It shouldn't be any
> harder than copying the line you have in there that allows user A sudo
> access and pasting it just below it and editing the user section to user
> B.  Is it because it's command line that you can't edit it properly?
>
> Man, learning vi should be mandatory.  :)
>
> Concerning deleting a user, read the man page on userdel. I rather doubt
> there will be any showstoppers to deleting the user.
>
> I'll be glad to work with you offlist if you feel you need it.
>
>
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Donny George
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