I did 'sudo usermod -G' instead of '-a -G'

PleegWat pleegwat at telfort.nl
Tue Aug 2 18:04:07 UTC 2011


On 08/02/2011 07:45 PM, Firesam wrote:
>
> I accidently usermod without appened. I only realised the next time I
> tried sudo and was not in sudoers. I was able to fix it by booting into
> root account and usermod -a -G admin<user>. My question is what else
> did I break that needs fixing? Is there a file that might be backed up
> that I can replace?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>

These are the groups I'm in on my system, apart from the one equal to my 
username:

adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare vboxusers mythtv

The file to back up is /etc/group

PleegWat




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