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On 02/28/2011 08:15 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTikwob7N28z4NZ=j84uCw3xMzrtdbmTsEbujLeW2@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Friends:<br>
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I have created a user called devpid and it is the only user
account in Ubuntu 10.10.<br>
<br>
I selected the autologin option for this user devpid and when I do
sudo, the password used for this devpid user works.<br>
<br>
Now I need to create user called just devuser instead of devpid.<br>
<br>
I want to be able to make this new user devuser the only user and
removed devpid. Also I want to give devuser the rights to be
sudo.<br>
<br>
How do I do that in Ubuntu ?<br>
<br>
-Narahari<br>
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#sudo vi /etc/sudoers<br>
<br>
When sudoers opens, check if there is a group shown as a sudoers
group 'admin' is the one on my machine. The sudoers file says it
can be edited only with the visudo program. I have never had any
issues editing it with vi.<br>
<br>
$ id devpid<br>
<br>
output shows the groups devpid is a member of. 'admin' should be
one of those groups.<br>
<br>
# groupadd wheel<br>
then add you user to the new admin group<br>
<br>
# usermod -a -G admin devuser <code><br>
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<font face="monospace"><big><code>The last line I found on
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-add-user-to-group/">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-add-user-to-group/</a>)</code></big></font>
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