** Description changed: 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). * The "mail server" installation profile is selected * "No configuration" is selected when the system asks which mail configuration to use As a workaround, the system can be booted into recovery mode, and the - following command executed: + following commands executed: - adduser $(getent passwd 1000 |cut -d: -f1) admin + addgroup --system admin + adduser USERNAME admin + echo '%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL' >>/etc/sudoers - or - - adduser <your username> admin + where "USERNAME" is the name of the initial user created during + installation. 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
