Users and Groups administration tool

Sivan Green sivan at piware.de
Thu Mar 17 12:37:10 CST 2005


On 13:16, Thu 17 Mar 05, John Richard Moser wrote:
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> Sivan Green wrote:
> > On 11:57, Thu 17 Mar 05, John Richard Moser wrote:
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> >>Well it's been five minutes and bugzilla.ubuntu.com hasn't loaded, or
> >>ubuntu.com for that matter.  Guess I'll just put this here.
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> >>In the Users and Groups tool, there should be an option to mark the user
> >>as an "Administrator," which would place them in the sudoers file.  The
> >>first user should by default be an administrator; all other users should
> >>not be unless set to be.
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> > You can do that from tagging that specific user's privilege
> > from "Properties" --> "User Privileges".
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> All I see is:
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>   Access to...
> 	CD-ROM drives
> 	floppy drives
> 	Modem devices
> 	tape drives
>   Connect to internet through modem devices
>   Enable access to external storage devices automatically
>   Monitor system logs
>   Send and recieve faxes
>   Use audio device
>   Use scanner device
> 
> Let me confirm this.
> 
> System->Administration->Users and Groups-><Select
> User>->Properties->User Privileges
> 
> Correct?  I'm on hoary, last update an hour ago.


Hmm, this is strange, I am also using an up to date hoary
(updating every 30 minutes) and this is how this dialog 
looks like for me: http://muse.19inch.net/~sivan/stuff/Screenshot-1.png


Do you see there "Executing system administration tasks" ?
Are you missing this one?

Sivan



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