after defining new group, lost administration privileges and /etc/group has been changed

[Alan E. Davis]

Today I have been experimenting with permissions and groups between two
systems to make it easier to share files on a USB drive between the two
systems.

I defined a new group using the System -> Administration -> Users and Groups
facility.  I noticed that, unlike my other system, no default group number
was suggested.  So I defined the  new group with group id number 1111, which
I reasons is high enough to not run afould of anything.

I logged out and back in.

When I click on System -> Administration -> Users and Groups, I am not
longer allowed to access the tool.  The error message says I do nave
permission to do so.  (I no longer remember the error message, because I
have altered the permissions and groups resulting in a different message now
being shown: "The configuration could not be loaded.  You are not allowed to
access the system configuration."

I had to add an admin group, but that didn't help, even adding my user name
as a member.  I altered the sudoers file.

The groups in /etc/group do not have any other users assigned to any groups
than those I assigned to the new group (1111) I made.  Admin is no longer a
group!
I have attached the new /etc/group file.

Thank you for any suggestions.  I would also appreciate your ideas of whom
to ask, or which group.

Alan



-- 
Alan Davis

"An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one
non-existent."                     ---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or
else his son, who was also a scientist.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when
there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
    ---- Bertrand Russell
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