On 09/12/2011 16:33, Alan Bell wrote:
I think you have been and gone a couple of times before your problem
was solved, I don't know if you are on a dialup connection, but
generally if you stick around for a few hours you will give people
more of a chance to see your problem and respond to it. First time you
were on we discovered that you didn't have the users and groups tool
installed, after you left I commented that perhaps you don't have the
ubuntu-desktop package installed, which would have pulled this and
other items in.
So the situation is that you installed ubuntu with one account, then
created a second account which was not initially an administrator
account, but now is I think in the right groups. When you perform an
action that requires sudo access your machine prompts you for the
username and password of the primary user. This is quite similar to my
kid's computers where they don't have admin accounts, if they go to
install something from software centre (why are you using synaptic
rather than software centre? Is it a synaptic specific issue or does
for example the unlock button on the users and groups tool prompt for
the primary user password too?) then I have to put in my password for
them because they are not in the sudoers file (or in the admin group
which is).
I think the first time you came on IRC we got you set up with the
right groups from the command line and got you to install the users
and groups app. I would suggest sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop to
make sure there is nothing else missing that is critical. Can you in
fact run things with sudo under your new username?
Alan.
Hi Alan,
That is exactly it, I can log in and use the terminal sudo whatever it
asks for the new username and password, but it is a synaptic specific
problem, not everything can be installed via software centre, at least I
havent been able to use software centre for everything, and your right
again, both users in Users ad Groups ask for the old username and
password, I just noticed that now.
John
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