Re: Loss of Administrative Privileges on Only Account

[Stephen Morris]

On 12/1/20 04:18, Doug H. wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 23:54 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> >   Hi,
> >       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?
>
> Nope, lots of simpler methods...
> Of course, if you have the root password you can give your user
>
> sudo.
> Boot to a maintenance CD and set a root password.

I don't have the root account enabled and I don't have a maintenance CD 
for F31 as it was an upgrade from F30, which was an upgrade from F29.

regards,
Steve
> > regards,
> > Steve
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Loss of Administrative Privileges on Only Account

[Samuel Sieb]

On 1/12/20 12:53 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 12/1/20 04:18, Doug H. wrote:
> > On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 23:54 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >           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?
> >
> > Nope, lots of simpler methods...
> > Of course, if you have the root password you can give your user
> >
> > sudo.
> > Boot to a maintenance CD and set a root password.
>
> I don't have the root account enabled and I don't have a maintenance CD 
> for F31 as it was an upgrade from F30, which was an upgrade from F29.

If you're comfortable with the command line, you can download the 
netinstall ISO and use rescue mode.