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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Deakin <<a href="mailto:john@humanaspects.co.uk" target="_blank">john@humanaspects.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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 <div class="im"> 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> </div>> - choose *Recovery Mode > *- in the shell write: *passwd wife_s_login* <div class="im">> - "passwd" will ask 2 times the new password for your wife's account </div>> - next, restart with*: shutdown -r now > > *Now you can use your wife account to complete the upgrade, and find the <div class="im">> way to explain her why her password has changed and what are you doing in </div>> her account! [?] <div class="im HOEnZb">> > Have a good day > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:30 PM, John Deakin <<a href="mailto:john@humanaspects.co.uk">john@humanaspects.co.uk</a>>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. >> >> -- >> regards, >> JohnD >> >> -- >> xubuntu-users mailing list >> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> >> > > > </div>-- regards, John 01367 820542 <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>