On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:57:46 +0530 Niyaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And i fired: > $ sudo usermod -G vboxusers niyaz You forgot the -a (append option ). The -G removed you from every group except the vboxusers.
> > and it transmigrated me to vboxusers. > I lost the sudo power. Why you lost the sudo power ? Because you were no longer a member of the "admin" group. (Read the sudoers file) My user 'jasbir' on my Ubuntu system is member of the following groups $ groups jasbir adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev fuse lpadmin admin pulse pulse-access Make sure you are member of admin and your own user group named "niyaz". For more info regarding the purpose of the various groups read /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.* > In an attempt to rehabilitate 'niyaz' > I booted the system with the Ubuntu live disk, > added 'niyaz ALL=(ALL) ALL' to /etc/sudoers When everything starts to work fine you should remove this line and check again. -- Jasbir _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
