Cool,
That seems possibly the easiest route. Then I will immediately create a
separate root password. Sheesh - I sort of understand why Ubuntu did
what they did but this could be a pain for a lot of folks.
Dennis
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:36 -0700, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> Dennis Bagley wrote:
> > This machine is dual boot with Suse as well as Ubuntu. If
> > I reboot the machine into Suse could I re-establish sudo
> > privileges for my user account (on the Ubuntu side) by doing
> > a vi on /etc/group and adding my user account manually to the
> > groups I belonged to before? or is there something else I need
> > to do as well?
>
> Oh, I missed that this is a dual-boot system. That supercedes
> the livecd solution I was going to mention.
>
> Yes, you should be able to restore user's sudo privs by mounting
> the ubuntu / partition and adding your user's name to the end of
> the "admin:" line in ${MOUNTPOINT}/etc/group.
>
> HTH,
> Tim
>
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