Greetings and Happy New Year from Belgium to you all,
All my professional life, as a Computer Specialist working for the US Army, I have been using Billy Boy's products but, feeling that I was not learning anything new as far programming/developping, I decided to start learning Linux. Therefore, you can easily understand that I do feel like a young child who makes his first steps alone and that I am close to be an IGNORANT. I installed Kubuntu Distro on a dedicated had disk (hd0) and everything went fine. I even manage to have a dual boot system (Windows XP and Kubuntu) from my Linux drive or from my Windows drive.
I had my account created with a password, which password allowed me to enter the Administrator's Mode. Fussing around and trying to understand better the structures of the users organization, I made, I think, a stupid mistake (I told you that I was an ignorant): using the Users and Groups module of the System Parameters, I put myself in the root group!!!!! Since then, when I need to use the Administrator's Mode, at first, it told me that it could not find the path to 'su'! Then, sa stupidly as before, I try to assign a password to the 'root' group and, since then, it does not recognize my password and the second password any more. I am stuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What could I do to step out of that mess? Please, try to help me!
Thanks in advance,
Jean-Philippe
PS: My native language being french, I might have made some mistake such as mentionning the Administrator's Mode instead of the Superuser's Mode. Please, forgive me!
All my professional life, as a Computer Specialist working for the US Army, I have been using Billy Boy's products but, feeling that I was not learning anything new as far programming/developping, I decided to start learning Linux. Therefore, you can easily understand that I do feel like a young child who makes his first steps alone and that I am close to be an IGNORANT. I installed Kubuntu Distro on a dedicated had disk (hd0) and everything went fine. I even manage to have a dual boot system (Windows XP and Kubuntu) from my Linux drive or from my Windows drive.
I had my account created with a password, which password allowed me to enter the Administrator's Mode. Fussing around and trying to understand better the structures of the users organization, I made, I think, a stupid mistake (I told you that I was an ignorant): using the Users and Groups module of the System Parameters, I put myself in the root group!!!!! Since then, when I need to use the Administrator's Mode, at first, it told me that it could not find the path to 'su'! Then, sa stupidly as before, I try to assign a password to the 'root' group and, since then, it does not recognize my password and the second password any more. I am stuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What could I do to step out of that mess? Please, try to help me!
Thanks in advance,
Jean-Philippe
PS: My native language being french, I might have made some mistake such as mentionning the Administrator's Mode instead of the Superuser's Mode. Please, forgive me!
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