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

[Nils Kassube]

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

In your file there is an admin group but the GID is 1004 while it should 
be 111. I suppose it will only work as the real admin group if you 
assign it the correct GID because some/most/all (?) programs use the 
GID instead of the group name.


Nils