Lost administrative rights on upgrade to 7.10

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 18 May 2008, J Reeves wrote:

> "The system administrator cannot login with this screen"
>
> Computer still works fine in my limited user account but I cannot use
> sudo.
>
> What to do?

Hi Jojo.  Alot of distros disallow root to login via X (the gui).

Since you know the root password you should be able to login as normal and 
use su from a shell to get superuser privs.

Alternatively you can hit ctrl-alt-F1 and login with a text console. You 
can return to X with ctrl-alt-F7 or F8 (the exact location can vary).

Whichever method you use to get superuser privs, I would then recommend 
allowing full sudo access for your regular user a/c.

Cheers,

Rob

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