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TZIKADA

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Registered: 2024-11-22

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I left the wheel group by accident [SOLVED]

I used usermod -G something (can't remember what) command and now I'm stuck without root privileges. Is there a way to get myself back into wheel group?

Last edited by TZIKADA (2024-12-17 14:43:19)

kermit63

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Re: I left the wheel group by accident [SOLVED]

Option 1:  If you set a password for the root account, you can log in as root and make your regular user part of the wheel group. Just make sure you log into the multi-user target, not the graphical target.
Option 2:  arch-chroot into your installation from a live medium.

You probably need to read up on the gpasswd command:

man gpasswd

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Re: I left the wheel group by accident [SOLVED]

Log in as or switch user to root and add yourself back.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Su

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TZIKADA

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Re: I left the wheel group by accident [SOLVED]

Thank you.