On 2020-01-12 08:40, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 1/11/20 6:05 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-01-11 20:54, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> By mistake I removed administration privileges from my account under kde, which is the only account that had it. Removing the privilege has removed my account from sudoers. Is the only course of action I have to get it back to reinstall F29 and then upgrage to F31? >> >> Are you saying that in the "User Manager" section of "System Settings" you have unchecked the >> box "Enable administrator privileges for this user"? >> >> If so, they why not just check it again? > > Once you remove adminstrator rights from yourself, you don't have permission to change it again. Have you tried it??? I have.... I deleted the Admin Priv, Reboot, and then enabled. I was prompted for the root PW and it does as expected. Now, if one has not enabled the root user, then there is more to be done. Kindly just dismiss what someone says without knowing what they've done. FWIW, the "System Settings" process that I'm talking about simply places the user in the "wheel" group. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
