<html><head></head><body><div>In RHEL/Fedora land you add them to the wheel group. Ubuntu uses a different group (I think - VM host with Ubuntu is offline for testing).</div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 11:06 -0400, Atlanta Geek wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi all.<div>Im normally a console guy but sometimes I do got to the gui. Im running ubuntu14.10 trying to add users and configure vpn. It wont let my user because he doesnt have privileges.</div><div><br></div><div>Im the only user. how can i give my user accout permission to do admin things. Is there a group that I need to add him to.</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><a href="http://www.atlantageek.com" target="_blank">http://www.atlantageek.com</a></div>
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