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only member of 1 group when using vmware console but member of many when using ssh

Ubuntu 12.04.01 LTS hosted by VMWARE When I use a Terminal window in the console using vmware vSphere as myself, 'id' only shows I'm a member of the main group (ie group in /etc/passwd). However, ...
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Default groups for user in Ubuntu 12.10?

Installed HP Linux Imaging and Printing by using install script and something crashed. Now I'm only member of my own group and lp. Which are the default groups for users in Ubuntu 12.10? Same as ...
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Run as group fails (sudo -g)

I would like to run a command with temporary group membership but it seems that I don't have permission to do that. As an example, if I run sudo -g internet ls, I get the message Sorry, user ...
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my User not a part of any system group

i was trying something on my ubuntu 12.04 ... basically trying to get my PLex mediaserver to detect movies from network shares and i thought to add my user and root to group plex that the server ...
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Degrading administrative privilege to standard with single admin user account

I recently met with a severe issue with user accounts. In my system, there is only administrator user named vivek. I added another user with name vivi and changed its privilege to administrator. After ...
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How do I add myself back as a sudo user?

I clean-installed Ubuntu 11.10 today, and then installed VirtualBox. This required me to add myself to the vboxusers group, and since 11.10 seems to no longer have a graphical app to add users to a ...
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How to create a group which is allowed to use the adduser command?

Does anyone know the commands for each step listed below? Create a new sudoers group called privilege1 allowing the use of the adduser command and nothing more. The sudoers configuration file is ...
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locked out of sudo while knowing my password

I have one admin account and recently I have accidentally added myself to a single group (usermod -G without -a). So, I am not in the sudoers file anymore. However, root is not loginable by default on ...
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Default groups for user in Ubuntu 11.04?

I accidentally removed my user from some groups yesterday because of some virtualbox issues and today I couldn't use sudo to do anything and had to use a livecd to edit sudoers. Anyway I want to edit ...
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What is the difference between the 'sudo' and 'admin' group?

I noticed that two groups are granted similar-looking permissions in /etc/sudoers: # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL # Allow members of group sudo to execute ...