This what TCLUG is for! I'm glad you got everything figured out too. I guess /etc/sudoers has my name rather than uid listed, so I was in, made > changes, golden. > As far as I understand, */etc/sudoers* assigns privileges bases on user name and group name. So, yes. You don't have to worry about your *uid* or your *gid* in that regard. -> Jake On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Mike Miller wrote: > > I had somehow accidentally created two copies of the group "staff", one >> with gid 50 and another with gid 1000. So I wanted to get rid of the one >> with gid 1000 and change everyone over to the group with gid 50. >> >> When I edited /etc/passwd, I changed every :1000: to :50: because when I >> looked at the file I thought they were all groups, but it turns out that >> exactly one was not -- it was my uid. So I changed my record in the passwd >> file such that my uid is now 50 instead of 1000, but I am logged in as >> 1000, which no longer exists. So when I try to sudo, it won't let me, >> always saying: >> >> sudo: unknown uid: 1000 >> >> I suppose I can boot to Live CD and change the /etc/passwd file >> appropriately. Is there any easier way to do it? >> > > > Yes - figured it out. I logged in remotely via ssh via my username. It > then assigned me to the new uid I had created. I guess /etc/sudoers has my > name rather than uid listed, so I was in, made changes, golden. > > Sorry to bug you with this! > > > Mike > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120613/23fc51d2/attachment-0001.html>