user management

[oxydon]

hey,

I am new to linux and it seems that i have messed up the user management in the system settings, i have removed the admin from the secondary groups. and now i cant open anything like adept cos it needs a password.

[javierrivera]

Re: user management

Nice work .

You will need to boot in safe mode. If you see a menu when you start your system, where you can choose the operating system to boot (called GRUB menu), you will see some options called "recovery mode" or "safe mode". Select one of this.

If you don't see the GRUB menu, hit ESC when booting to access it.

After booting you should see the # character and a cursor. Welcome to the recovery mode. It's console based, no GUI here. You need to add again the admin group to your user. You can do it with the following command

# adduser username admin

Change username for your real user name.

Javier.