Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
If you use create and "admin" user, you will lock yourself out so that you
cannot do any more administration. Why? Simple.
The "admin" user is created along with a new "admin" group.
The new "admin" group has a different GID number and it is cleared
of other members. As a result, you (i.e. the previous adminstrator)
no longer have "admin" group membership.
As a result of *that*, you can't do sudo, because the /etc/sudoers
file checks for group="admin".
QED.
I used the GUI tools in ubuntu 8.04 (users-admin in gnome-system-tools;
accessed from the
system->administration->users and groups menus).
I believe this is a bug in the tool used to create a new user. It should
*not* overwrite
and clear an existing group. Instead, it should report some reasonable error
message.
This is similar to bug 99276 but more serious.
** Affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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creating an "admin" user makes it impossible to adminster the system
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255146
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