[ale] Give superuser to gui apps.

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 11:17:10 EDT 2015


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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