Comments on: Linux Fuckup of the Day http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: Terminally Incoherent’s “Linux Fuckup Of The Day” — Using Single-User Mode To Recover « schof.org http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-22793 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:28:44 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-22793

[…] Terminally Incoherent: Yep. I just removed myself from all the groups except for vboxusers. Brilliant! I absolutely hate […]

]]> By: slypheed http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-10832 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:49:21 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-10832

eh, yeah, this is why I always use “gpasswd -a username groupname” now

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[…] From Terminally Incoherent: Yep. I just removed myself from all the groups except for vboxusers. Brilliant! I absolutely hate when I do stupid shit like that. It’s not like this was hard to fix – I just didn’t remember of the top of my head what groups I was supposed to belong to. Of course since I was no longer part of the sudo and admin groups I could no longer sudo. Luckily enough, back in the day I decided to enable the root password. So I was able to su to become root, and then usermod myself to admin, and bunch of other groups I needed like audio, video, tty, lp and etc… I wonder what would happen if I did this on a default Ubuntu box without root account. I wonder if I would be able to recover from this that easily. […]

]]> By: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4946 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:28:57 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4946

Oh crap. I totally forgot about adduser. And there is no annoying -a in that command to ruin my day. :P

Thanks!

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]]> By: Nick http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4944 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:52:18 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4944

I think Ubuntu and Debian both have the eaisier to use ‘adduser’ command. To add yourself to a new group you would just use sudo adduser jdoe groupx.

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]]> By: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4941 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:29:45 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4941

Thanks for the tip John!

Craig – I know – it’s so easy to fuck up the system with a simple typo when you’re root. It’s funny how many unix commands have some sort of “dry run” or “print only” option – and yet, I never ever have enough common sense to use them. :P

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]]> By: Craig Betts http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4938 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:56:47 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4938

DOH! I hate when that happens! I once broke a 2 terrabyte volume because of my “cleverness”. Good thing that is all you did!

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]]> By: John Mark Schofield http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4937 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:08:29 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4937

As I’ve written on my site, you can recover from this sort of thing fairly easily, whether or not you’ve set the root password. (Unless you’ve set and forgotten the root password, at which point you can still recover, but it’s more work.)

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]]> By: University Update - Linux - Linux Fuckup of the Day http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4936 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:51:45 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/25/linux-fuckup-of-the-day/#comment-4936

[…] YouTube Link to Article linux Linux Fuckup of the Day » Posted at Terminally Incoherent on Monday, June 25, 2007 Linux Fuckup of the Day June 25th, 2007 3:17 PM by Luke I had to set up a virtual machine on one of the Ubuntu boxes today … if I would be able to recover from this that easily. tags: ubuntu, linux, usermod, groups, vboxusers, virtualbox Posted in technology, linux, ubuntu | No Comments » View Entire Article » […]

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