Re: sorting 512.192 emails

2011-12-30 Thread Dazed_75
Might http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=487246c51f78db43&hl=enhelp? On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Technomage Hawke < technomage.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > well, > I just spent a better part of 18 hours trying to cull out the ever > expanding girth of my email accounts. in t

Re: no admin privileges for ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-30 Thread Dazed_75
Unless you have turned it off, grub2 menu should still (in 11.10) offer recovery mode which can put you into single user mode as root. That should enable you to adduser regusername:admin (or adm the one you need). Then reboot and log in as yourself. If you are not dual booting, you may not see t

sorting 512.192 emails

2011-12-30 Thread Technomage Hawke
well, I just spent a better part of 18 hours trying to cull out the ever expanding girth of my email accounts. in that 19 hours, I reduced the all mail folder by 259,213 emails using the only web interface that has no tools for the blind in it. its not like I want to keep all that email. it was

Re: no admin privileges for ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-30 Thread azlobo73
One option is to view (maybe edit) the /etc/sudoers file via single user mode, (if visudo command is available just run that; else, recall that when using vi or vim, :w! will save a write protected file.. But actually EDITING the sudoers file should be a last resort in this case - you can make thin

Re: no admin privileges for ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-30 Thread Kevin Fries
Resetting the root password will get you nowhere. Those directions are old and should not be used. If you can get yourself root access, simply add your everyday account to the admin group. I have not tried to single user access a machine with grub2, so I am less help there, hopefully someone els

Re: no admin privileges for ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-30 Thread Stephen
try a sudo su - it can sometimes work when a nomral su or sudo does not. otherwise you may have some trouble ahead. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:41 PM, david lopez wrote: > Need help! (ubuntu 11.10) > > Somehow managed to do a stupid thing -- that is, from the > >    User_name in menu bar-->User Ac

Re: no admin privileges for ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-30 Thread Ariel Gold
sorry, didn't read your whole post. but i recently used these instructions to reset a root password. http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-reset-a-forgotten-root-password-with-knoppix I booted from an Ubuntu cd instead of a Knoppix one... (make sure you read the second page of that article, that's wher

no admin privileges for ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-30 Thread david lopez
Need help! (ubuntu 11.10) Somehow managed to do a stupid thing -- that is, from the User_name in menu bar-->User Accounts I managed to make all my login accounts 'standard' (normally at least one login account is 'admin'). When I a try a 'sudo cmd', it says that the user "is not in the sudoer

Re: How to Restrict a User's Access Using SFTP?

2011-12-30 Thread Eric Shubert
vsftpd supports all the same (standard) protocols, and will work with anything that uses ftp or sftp. On 12/29/2011 07:46 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: Eric, vsftp is in the Debian repositories, but the developer's tool does not use it...only sftp or ftp. The program is iWeb on the mac. However, t