How to change admin user for GUI?

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 November 2012 19:43, Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have installed ubuntu-12.4 for a friend. Since he is not a computer
> guy and
> > I will need to do the administration on this computer, the first admin
> account
> > I created was an account for me. Then I created a second admin account
> for
> > him. We can both use sudo to do the administration on command line.
> >
> > Since he is not familiar with the command line, he is doing everything
> with
> > the GUI. But when he does anything that needs root permissions (e.g.
> update
> > the system), the GUI asks for _my_ password.
> >
> > How can I change this setting so that _his_ PW is asked instead?
>
> For what it's worth, I have had the same problem. (I think it was on
> Xubuntu or Lubuntu rather than Ubuntu but it doesn't matter.)
>
> In the end, after some Googling and no clear answers, I just
> reformatted & reinstalled.
>


This might be the best answer -- reformat and create his account first,
then yours.

HOWEVER before you completely give up, notice that the first administrative
account is a member of all sorts of groups. It's been awhile since I
looked, but is the second administrative account a member of all the same
groups? For example the adm group lets you view the logs in /var/log and
the sudo group lets you use sudo, but there are some other groups -- my
admin account is a member of cdrom dip plugdev lpadmin and sambashare, too.
I haven't looked them all up but you could try making sure he's a member of
all the same groups.
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