[sclug] Ubuntu 6.06 disaster

Will Dickson wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk
Sun Dec 17 12:48:37 UTC 2006


Neil Haughton wrote:
> Does anyone out there have a 'stock' Ubuntu 6.06 installation? I have 
> inadvertently deleted my 'admin' group, and need to recreate it with the 
> original ID number. If a Good Samaritan would care to check the correct 
> ID number and let me know, I might just get out of the woods on this one.

A brief survey of the 3 ?ubuntu boxes here has admin as 111 on KUbuntu, 
but 112 on XUbuntu. On the XUbuntu box, 111 goes to gdm - looks like kdm 
(the kde alternative to gdm) doesn't need its own group.

So my answer would be: 111 for KUbuntu, 112 for XUbuntu or straight Ubuntu.

HTH

Will.



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