Setting up a new computer[SOLVED]

[S3KshuN8]

I am setting up a computer for a friend but I will also be using it while visiting there. It's a ThinkPad T400 and I went with Ultimate Edition 3.8 on it (after burning two DVD coasters most likely from a bad download of 4.2 lite). I will probably have more questions, but I will keep them in this thread. My first question is:

How do I add myself as a different user with my own username and password?

EDIT

I may have answered my own question. I typed:

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sudo adduser --encrypt-home --force-badname Username

I am checking to see if that worked...

[S3KshuN8]

Apparently I have not set up my account properly. This is what I got in a terminal.

Nathan@ThinkPad-T400:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for Nathan:
Nathan is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

I can login as the primary user, but I do not know what to do to add myself as a sudoer. Was there another command line option I should have used when creating the account? How can I fix this? I don't want to have to change logins each time I need to do something.

[Xanayoshi]

You need to add "Nathan" to the sudoers file

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sudo adduser nathan sudo

[S3KshuN8]

Thanks for the info. Xanayoshi's fix worked for me, but I may have additional questions later.

[Xanayoshi]

No

It is not the same.

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7669&p=70050&hilit=sudo+sudoers#p70050

Especially if he wanted to use sudo. True that many things can be accomplished at root and indeed should be, such as upgrading, which generally goes a little better on tty at root as opposed to such system killing things as Ubuntu upgrader and the unmighty Synaptic.

On the other hand it may have a negative effect such as losing permissions on files(they aren't lost, they have just been assigned to root instead of the account user), which will force you to run root.

Su is switch user and it switches to the root user. This is different than running sudo as the account user.

Example:

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sudo dolphin

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su

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dolphin

nada

To run at root we must dbus-launch

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dbus-launch dolphin

See the difference?

It matters not.

If "Nathan" is not in the sudoers file "Nathan" can not

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sudo passwd

because "Nathan" is not a sudoer.

[Xanayoshi]

In other words

xanayoshi@Rebuilt:~$ su
Password:
root@Rebuilt:/home/xanayoshi# su
root@Rebuilt:/home/xanayoshi# cd /
root@Rebuilt:/#

xanayoshi@Rebuilt:~$ is not root@Rebuilt:/#

[S3KshuN8]

This box keeps popping up. I try "Run this action now" but it does nothing. Surely there is a terminal command to update, but I know not what it is...

[Xanayoshi]

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sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

[S3KshuN8]

This is what I got:

Nathan@ThinkPad-T400:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
[sudo] password for Nathan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-installer is already the newest version.
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
sbsigntool
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Nathan@ThinkPad-T400:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove sbsigntool
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
sbsigntool
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 348 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 324834 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sbsigntool ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Nathan@ThinkPad-T400:~$

If it pops up again I'll let you know. Thanks Xan.

[Xanayoshi]

hmmmm...

So it will pop up again...maybe remove and reinstall...

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sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer

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sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

or

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sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer

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sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

I mean..you have the plugin, so if it is working then the warning is just annoying so you could then

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sudo rm -f /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/flashplugin-installer.failed

and if it fails for real, you could determine it's this by simply playing a video.


Let us all cross our fingers and hope that Chrome will do away with this with HTML 5 in version 38 and Mozilla follows suit.