Comment 3 for bug 255249
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| techno-mole (techno-mole-ntlworld) wrote | #3 |
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progress, it seems that for some reason using the gui to add /remove users and change groups etc isnt working for some reason, which i have yet to discover.
however if i run " sudo adduser " in a terminal and follow the instructions i can add a user (but with a limited account)
so once ive created the user i need to change the permissions, eg - make them a member of the admin group so that they can install updates etc, but again the gui will not allow me to do this (not even in administrator mode)
so what i have done, is to edit the /etc/group file to add the user to the admin group this way, which will then give them the needed access.
this is the way ive done it, and it works and hasnt caused any issues (that i have discovered as yet) so maybe some one will find this useful ?
as i said i have no idea why i wasnt able to do this using the system settings way.