no admin privileges for ubuntu 11.10

[Stephen]

try a sudo su - it can sometimes work when a nomral su or sudo does not.

otherwise you may have some trouble ahead.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:41 PM, david lopez <lopezdavid123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Need help! (ubuntu 11.10)
>
> Somehow managed to do a stupid thing -- that is, from the
>
>    User_name in menu bar-->User Accounts
>
> I managed to make all my login accounts 'standard' (normally at least one
> login account is 'admin'). When I a try a 'sudo cmd', it says that the
> user "is not in the sudoers file". When I try to go back to the User
> Accounts
> gui and use the unlock icon and enter the correct password, the error
> is "An application is attempting to preform an action that requires
> privileges.
> Authentication as super user is required to perform this action".
>
> Some linux web pages have recourse assuming the super user account password
> has been lost and you may fix it by booting up the session with 'single'
> user mode and changing the password via a root command 'passwd'. Since I
> can still login into the account which should have super user privileges,
> it is not clear that single user mode to change the password will correct
> my lack of admin privileges problem.
>
> BTW, I have not found single user mode recipe for ubuntu 11.10 on the web
> that works so I don't know if re-setting the password will fix my lack of
> admin privileges.
>
> Two issues:
>  1) How do I remedy my issue in restoring my "admin" privileges
>  2) The gui should always make sure that at least one login account has
>     'admin' privileges.
>
> If fixing issue 1) involves the 'single' user mode, where is a good web
> recipe for ubuntu 11.10.
>
> David
>
>
> --
> David Lopez
> Software Engineer
>
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