[xubuntu-users] 12.10 Upgrade wrong User Permission

[honeyshell]

Oki John,

You tell "My account type has been set to "Custom" rather than
"Administrator".
I propose you to be Administrator ;)

- boot on live cd
- click on the "/" partition
- open terminal
- sudo nano  /media/partition_name_to_adapt*/etc/group*
- find *adm:x:4:* and change it by adm:x:4:john  (if your login is "john")
- save & restart on your xubuntu
- log with john account, sudo should work
*
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Deakin <john at humanaspects.co.uk>wrote:

> honeyshell,
>
> Thanks for your help but the problem is that my wife's account was
> eradicated during the upgrade and now when I bring up "Users Settings"
> my wife's account is not on the list and I don't have the capability to
> add one for her. My account type is shown as being "Custom" which does
> not appear to have the authority to add a user, so no account for wife.
>
> All her data files seem to be still in place but she will have no
> capability to access the computer.
>
> regards,
> JohnD
>
> On 19/10/12 12:54, honeyshell wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > When you have physically a computer, you can do everything!
> > In your case you can change your wife's password, so you will have sudo
> > under her account!
> > For that :
> > - restart your computer
> > - when grub appears, push <ESC>
> > - choose  *Recovery Mode
> > *- in the shell write: *passwd wife_s_login*
> > - "passwd" will ask 2 times the new password for your wife's account
> > - next, restart with*: shutdown -r now
> >
> > *Now you can use your wife account to complete the upgrade, and find the
> > way to explain her why her password has changed  and what are you doing
> in
> > her account!   [?]
> >
> > Have a good day
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:30 PM, John Deakin <john at humanaspects.co.uk
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I have just upgraded to 12.10 and in doing so had to re-enter my
> >> personal account information. On starting to use Xubuntu 12.10 I find
> >> that my wife's account has been lost and when I went to User Settings to
> >> add her to the list of accounts, I cannot. My account type has been set
> >> to "Custom" rather than "Administrator" and I now cannot change any user
> >> account settings.
> >>
> >> Is there a way of invoking User Settings in a terminal with "sudo", or
> >> is there another way?
> >>
> >> She will be back soon and will have my guts for garters as she accuses
> >> me of constantly screwing up her account. Help.
> >>
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> >> JohnD
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