no admin privileges for ubuntu 11.10

[Kevin Fries]

Resetting the root password will get you nowhere.  Those directions are old
and should not be used.

If you can get yourself root access, simply add your everyday account to
the admin group.

I have not tried to single user access a machine with grub2, so I am less
help there, hopefully someone else can help with that.

Kevin
On Dec 30, 2011 2:59 PM, "Ariel Gold" <arielqgold at gmail.com> wrote:

> sorry, didn't read your whole post. but i recently used these instructions
> to reset a root password.
> http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-reset-a-forgotten-root-password-with-knoppix
> I booted from an Ubuntu cd instead of a Knoppix one...  (make sure you read
> the second page of that article, that's where the meat of it is)
>
>
>
> 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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