<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Mark Haney <<a href="mailto:mhaney@ercbroadband.org">mhaney@ercbroadband.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Donny George wrote: > Hello > > I have an ubuntu 8.04 client installed and have a first user admin1 and > second user admin. my problem is that i cant get the acces to the synaptic > user account manager as i want to delete one of these users. it only > displays a window which says > > Could not authenticate > An unexpected error occured > > and this is the error message for both the users > > could some one help as i want to delete the user admin1 and give the user > admin administrator previlages, is there a command line statement to do this > ? > > > > </div></div>Of course there are command line options for this. But I need to get you to clarify something, which user currently has sudo access? Your best bet is to 'sudo visudo' and edit the sudo rights for the user you want to have sudo access. The sudoers file is pretty well documented. Then, when you are sure you can sudo into basic functions with the new user, you can userdel that user and go into visudo and remove that user from the sudoers file. -- Frustra laborant quotquot se calculationibus fatigant pro inventione quadraturae circuli Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> hello mark i can access sudo with both the users but somehow i cant manage the format to edit the visudo, but at the mean time i think i will be able to use the command userdel but just wondering that i dont mess up things ? anything to be careful about wen i delete a user ? -- Donny George