User Permissions

[faisal892]

Hi all,

When I try to open Synaptic i get this message

"Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root.

The underlying authorization mechanism (sudo) does not allow you to run this program. Contact the system administrator"

Similarly Users and Groups is not opening, it says.

"The configuration could not be loaded

You are not allowed to access the system configuration"

Every thing was going on well till yesterday but today this problem occured.

Please help.

Faisal.

[iMisspell]

Dont think this will fix your problem, but might help trouble shoot.

Try this in a terminal window...
gksu /usr/sbin/synaptic
It shuold ask you for your root password, then load Synaptic.

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[cariboo907]

It sounds like you removed yourself from the admin group. IF that is what happen start in recovery mode and at the prompt type gpasswd -a <username> admin.

[faisal892]

It sounds like you removed yourself from the admin group. IF that is what happen start in recovery mode and at the prompt type gpasswd -a <username> admin.

This solved my problem. Thank you very much Sir.

Faisal.

[cariboo907]

Your welcome