Hi, I am running 8.10 Intrepid Ibex All of my groups got deleted today, and I only discovered this after I tried to use a command that required sudo--it told me that my main user was not in the sudoers file. Upon reboot, my computer wouldn't start normally, because every single group got wiped out. When I start using recovery mode (hitting ESC during Grub launcher message), the only groups I see are:
> groups root > cat /etc/group root:x:0: nogroup:x:65534: samba:x:1001: This just happened to me today. I had added a user named "samba" and I noticed it was appearing in the menu as one of the users that I could log in to--the User Switcher panel on the menu on the top right. I wanted "samba" to disappear, so first I tried to remove samba from shell login by setting its shell to /bin/true. I went to System > Administration > Users and Groups Except for my users, I saw "root" and "samba" grayed out, and I could not edit the properties of the "samba" account. There was an button that said "Unlock," so I pressed that, a prompt came up with some message that I didn't bother to read, I saw my username, and I just assumed it wanted me to authenticate, so I typed my sudo password as usual. I edit the samba user, and set its shell to /bin/true (nothing happened when I press the drop-down arrow to display more shells, so I typed it in manually). After I confirm all the dialogs, when I tried a command that required sudo, it reported that I was no longer a member of sudoers... That's pretty much a step-by-step of what occurred. Seems like this is a legitimate bug, since it happened to others as well. -- user privileges affecting adduser component and sudoers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/4738 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
