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Account Issue from custom to administrator

Asked by Unsal Koskar

Hi I love Ubuntu by far what a fascinating system. But the issue I am having is when I first installed ubuntu it asked me to create an account I am sure I created an administrator account. Now 6 months later I've been downloading updates using it to do networking configs, all my computing needs. Now when I was in Terminal I type in "su" I am trying to learn airocrack-ng, aerodump-ng, aireplay-ng I am trying to audit the wireless on my job to make sure its secure. Nevertheless, when I run those commands in terminal it says login to root I know my password and I don't have another account created but it says authentication failure.

Now I got to System~~>,administration~~~~>, Users and groups on the box that pops up it has my login info icon on the left panel and it has 3 options associated with it Custom, Administrator & Desktop User. So I put administrator originally it was on custom so I can run aircrack-ng cause it says login as root. I thought administrator is root but when I applied those administrator settings I lost majority of my stuff. I can't connect to the internet either wireless or wired. Network Connection Icon disappeared from system--preferences--network connections.. So how can I go about restoring my old settings when it was custom cause it is shaded out and it doesn't let me I am new to this any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#1

root has no password, so you have to become root with the sudo command:
sudo su
To reset the custom capabilities you originally had, click on the advanced settings, and select the following (which are the ones I have set (the defaults) on my first user:
Access external drives
Admin the system
printers
system logs
share files
cdrom
modems
I know, it seems that things like wireless would be needed too, but I don't have them checked, and have no problems.
Good Luck

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Unsal Koskar (unsal-koskar) said : 		#2

I tried it and still no internet connections or wireless popping up??

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#3

Maybe one of the updates added a new kernel, and the wireless drivers are not set up for it. Try selecting an older kernel in grub and see if you have wireless with it. Did anything change when you went back to custom?

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Unsal Koskar (unsal-koskar) said : 		#4

i choosed other kernels but it is the same issue and when I go to user and groups i see my login name it just says administrator and desktop user but the custom is shaded out thats the problem I am having. When I originally did the system for some reason it had it on custom the I changed it to administrator then thats when all the problem started. Is there a system restore or something that i can do cause I have a dual boot laptop with ubuntu 10.4 and windows 7 i am scared to reload ubuntu again cause it probably messup my windows 7 partition and i dont want to risk it cause i have alot of programs on it. Maybe you know a command that can restore it or something??

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#5

Custom will be selected again when you make your custom selection of user privileges . Under the users groups, select your account, and click the advanced button. Then select the User Privileges tab. Turn off the items not in the list I previously posted, and you will be back where you started, and the custom button will again be selected. I doubt this will actually help your problem with the system. When I tried it on my system, nothing much happened -- certainly no icons disappeared.

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Unsal Koskar (unsal-koskar) said : 		#6

Re: How to restore networkmanager and internet connection after ubuntu update
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I disable Network Manager on my desktop computers.
I use Jaunty,the shortcut menu names to Startup Programs may be different on Lucid.
Open synaptic and search for network-manager and network-manager-gnome
Have they been removed, or are they installed but broken?
If they're not installed you can skip Step 1.

Step 1. Turn off NM from starting when I log into gnome.
System/Preferences/Startup Applications/Startup Programs tab/NetworkManager uncheck
Step 2. Edit /etc/network/interfaces
Code:
gksudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
Add what's in bold for DHCP:
Code:
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface DHCP
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Save,Reboot

To enable network manager you can put # marks in front of your edits to /etc/network/interfaces and recheck network manager in Startup Programs

This is what help me fix it weird but it helped. I thank you for your time you tried helping me.