[Tfug] permissions problem

andy andyjones at cox.net
Thu Sep 27 18:04:04 MST 2007


I just noticed another item. The windows partition, sda1,is not
automounting now, and doesn't appear on my desktop, so these are the
things that I don't know how to fix since they came installed and
configured with my Ubuntu feisty.

Andy

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 17:56 -0700, andy wrote:
> I was installing Vitualbox and in my attempt to add my user acct. to the
> vboxusers group I learned something important.  When I used the CL to
> add the vboxusers to my group I lost my admin/sudo privileges. I read
> somewhere that it's a bug and you should always use the GUI when make
> any group/user changes. Anyway, I got it repaired by booting into the
> recovery kernel and then adding my user via visudo, now everything seems
> normal, but I find that my sound applet gives me an error (see
> screenshot).  Why is this occurring, how do I correct it? And are there
> other issues I've created with permissions and other files that I may
> not be aware of yet? 
> 
> Andy





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