HELP!! User issue

[Vram]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 22:50 -0700, zer0halo wrote:
> I think I really blew it and I don't know my way out. When I installed
> Ubuntu I set up my user name, which I'll call "newlogin". However, I
> had previously used a different user name, and had shares on a remote
> server which were accessible by my former user name "oldlogin".
> 
> So today I needed to access those files, and in Ubuntu I went into
> Users and Groups and decided to go into my "newlogin" user properties
> and rename it back to "oldlogin" (stupidly, instead of just creating
> another user).  Everything seemed fine until I tried to run sudo and
> got the error "user oldlogin not in sudoers file". Yikes. So because
> root is disabled in Ubuntu I can't get into root to change my user
> name back to what it was or to edit the sudoers file. Nor can I run
> any program that runs at root. So I'm stuck. I guess that's one
> disadvantage of having root disabled. Is there any way out of this
> besides having to reinstall from scratch (which I really don't have
> time to do!). Thanks for the help.
> 
> -- 
> "Impossible is nothing."
> 

So if I understand what is who....

do 

sudo passwd root

<it will then ask you for a new root password.>

< it will ask you to retype it>

Now you can su

type your new root password and be good to go...

HTH


Vram..

<have root and love it>