I just messed up a fresh xubuntu 8.04.1 install by creating an "admin" user. It should be blocked in some way.
The 'Users and Groups' gui tool got broken and pressing 'unlock' resulted in a non-descriptive error message. admin users no longer had 'administer the system' checked, though they could still use sudo at the terminal. I fixed (well it seems fixed as far as I can see) this by creating a new admin user: adduser newadminuser adduser newadminuser admin then logging out of the "admin" user and changing to the newly created user then removing the "admin" user using: deluser admin After this the gui tools worked again. -- Creating user with username 'admin' hoses admin group, sudo config https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236305 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
