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

[Alan E. Davis]

I should mention that I did define a couple of groups that are found in the
/etc/group file I posted earlier, including admin and sudo.

Thank you for any ideas,

Alan

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>


-- 
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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