[sclug] Ubuntu 6.06 disaster

[Ed Davies]

Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:03:16 +0000
> Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have 
>> inadvertently deleted my 'admin' group, and need to recreate it with
>> the original ID number.
> 
> Given the variety of answers so far, maybe the best thing to do is to
> ask others to find a file with group 'admin' and then you can see what
> GID the same file on your system is. That will tell you what GID admin
> was on your system.

Good idea, but on my system

$ sudo find / -group admin

didn't find anything.  That didn't terribly surprise me, it's mainly
(only?) used in /etc/sudoers.  In which case, does the GID matter?

Ed.