Administrator group and privilege gone
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:34 am
Greetings.
Running a Xfce setup in VBox I have managed to borken it and instead of installing again (so many updates) have been trying to fix it without success.
There is only the initial user and I am now without the ability to do things as the administrator normally would do. From what I can tell the administrator group has gone missing along with all priveleges. In Users and Groups administrator is gone and in the file /etc/group it has vanished too. I tried as root but that in itself which puts the group in (as 1001) is bringing me no closer to getting it back the way it was. Is there a way to fix this or is it time to flush?
I did re-install gnome-system-tools but that had no effect.
Pat
Running a Xfce setup in VBox I have managed to borken it and instead of installing again (so many updates) have been trying to fix it without success.
There is only the initial user and I am now without the ability to do things as the administrator normally would do. From what I can tell the administrator group has gone missing along with all priveleges. In Users and Groups administrator is gone and in the file /etc/group it has vanished too. I tried as root
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addgroup administrator
I did re-install gnome-system-tools but that had no effect.
Pat