[ale] ubuntu create another user and remove old user

[Damon Chesser]

On 2/28/2011 8:48 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 08:15 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
>> Friends:
>>
>> I have created a user called devpid and it is the only user account 
>> in Ubuntu 10.10.
>>
>> I selected the autologin option for this user devpid and when I do 
>> sudo, the password used for this devpid user works.
>>
>> Now I need to create user called just devuser instead of devpid.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> How do I do that in Ubuntu ?
>>
>> -Narahari
>>
>>
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> #sudo vi /etc/sudoers
>
> 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.

The reason for this is that if you make a mistake in syntax, visudo will 
tell you when you save and exit.  Vi will not.


>
> $ id devpid
>
> output shows the groups devpid is a member of.  'admin' should be one 
> of those groups.
>
> # groupadd wheel
> then add you user to the new admin group
>
> # usermod -a -G admin devuser |
>
> |
> |The last line I found on 
> (http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-add-user-to-group/)|
>
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