Comment 11 for bug 1876460
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| Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote | #11 |
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On 2020-05-02 18:49, Krister wrote:
> Boy, that's strange.
Really? Only you can tell how it happened. ;)
> But I should be able to add a user nonetheless, right?
Not via the GUI, since it's not aware of users with id < 1000.
One option is to add a new admin user from command line:
sudo adduser kms2
sudo adduser kms2 sudo
> I've changed my UID to 1001 but continue to have the same problem
> with the settings.
>
> => id -u kms
> 1001
Did you edit /etc/passwd manually? If so you probably need to reboot for the change to be effective everywhere. But be careful! It may be a good idea to first create a new admin user from command line as I just showed.