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[ale] Give superuser to gui apps.
- Subject: [ale] Give superuser to gui apps.
- From: jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:17:10 -0400
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In RHEL/Fedora land you add them to the wheel group. Ubuntu uses a
different group (I think - VM host with Ubuntu is offline for testing).
On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 11:06 -0400, Atlanta Geek wrote:
> Hi all.
> Im normally a console guy but sometimes I do got to the gui. Im
> running ubuntu14.10 trying to add users and configure vpn. It wont
> let my user because he doesnt have privileges.
>
> Im the only user. how can i give my user accout permission to do
> admin things. Is there a group that I need to add him to.
>
>
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