[xubuntu-users] 12.10 Upgrade wrong User Permission

[honeyshell]

sorry I forget some informations:

Oki John,

You tell "My account type has been set to "Custom" rather than
"Administrator".
I propose you to be Administrator ;)

- boot on live cd
- click on the "/" partition
- open terminal

- sudo nano  /media/partition_name_to_adapt*/etc/group*
- find *adm:x:4:* and change it by adm:x:4:john  (if your login is "john")
you can add your wife's login
- save

- sudo nano  /media/partition_name_to_adapt*/etc/passwd*
- find john:x:1000:1000:john,,,:/home/john:/bin/bash
(test with "1000")
and you can for your wife's login adapt the home path.
- save

- restart on your xubuntu
- log with john account, sudo should work

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:47 PM, honeyshell <honeyshell at honeyshell.com>wrote:

> Oki John,
>
> You tell "My account type has been set to "Custom" rather than
> "Administrator".
> I propose you to be Administrator ;)
>
> - boot on live cd
> - click on the "/" partition
> - open terminal
> - sudo nano  /media/partition_name_to_adapt*/etc/group*
> - find *adm:x:4:* and change it by adm:x:4:john  (if your login is "john")
> - save & restart on your xubuntu
> - log with john account, sudo should work
>
> *
> *
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Deakin <john at humanaspects.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> honeyshell,
>>
>> Thanks for your help but the problem is that my wife's account was
>> eradicated during the upgrade and now when I bring up "Users Settings"
>> my wife's account is not on the list and I don't have the capability to
>> add one for her. My account type is shown as being "Custom" which does
>> not appear to have the authority to add a user, so no account for wife.
>>
>> All her data files seem to be still in place but she will have no
>> capability to access the computer.
>>
>> regards,
>> JohnD
>>
>> On 19/10/12 12:54, honeyshell wrote:
>> > Hi John,
>> >
>> > When you have physically a computer, you can do everything!
>> > In your case you can change your wife's password, so you will have sudo
>> > under her account!
>> > For that :
>> > - restart your computer
>> > - when grub appears, push <ESC>
>> > - choose  *Recovery Mode
>> > *- in the shell write: *passwd wife_s_login*
>> > - "passwd" will ask 2 times the new password for your wife's account
>> > - next, restart with*: shutdown -r now
>> >
>> > *Now you can use your wife account to complete the upgrade, and find the
>> > way to explain her why her password has changed  and what are you doing
>> in
>> > her account!   [?]
>> >
>> > Have a good day
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:30 PM, John Deakin <john at humanaspects.co.uk
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have just upgraded to 12.10 and in doing so had to re-enter my
>> >> personal account information. On starting to use Xubuntu 12.10 I find
>> >> that my wife's account has been lost and when I went to User Settings
>> to
>> >> add her to the list of accounts, I cannot. My account type has been set
>> >> to "Custom" rather than "Administrator" and I now cannot change any
>> user
>> >> account settings.
>> >>
>> >> Is there a way of invoking User Settings in a terminal with "sudo", or
>> >> is there another way?
>> >>
>> >> She will be back soon and will have my guts for garters as she accuses
>> >> me of constantly screwing up her account. Help.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> regards,
>> >> JohnD
>> >>
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