** Description changed: - Binary package hint: debian-installer + Under the following circumstances, the initial user account fails to be + added to the admin group, which results in the root account being + inaccessible (sudo will fail). - After a fresh install of Gutsy server edition, the user account created - during the installation is not granted membership to the 'admin' group. + * The "mail server" installation profile is selected + * "No configuration" is selected when the system asks which mail configuration to use - As such, the system is left without any administrator account after the - first reboot and has to be manually fixed by booting in recovery mode - and manually fixing /etc/sudoers + As a workaround, the system can be booted into recovery mode, and the + following command executed: - This is 100% reproducible. But it seems strange that something so - obvious would have gone through... + adduser $(getent passwd 1000 |cut -d: -f1) admin - Alex + or + + adduser <your username> admin + + Then exit recovery mode, and sudo should succeed.
-- Initial user account created on install of Gutsy server is not added to admin group https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158952 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
