Is it possible than my user disappears from sudo?

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That happened after I managed to install Virtual Box.

I found a part of the answer here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1376802. I added my user to another group and then lost my user to sudoers group. The joke is I haven't any root or admin account - my current user was the sole user of my Ubuntu desktop.

Drop to the root shell on boot and re-add yourself to the admin (adm) group. — Damn Terminal, Jul 16 '13 at 23:44
What exactly did you do when adding to another group? What exact command did you run? For example the erroneous command usermod -G cdrom gert would remove me from all supplementary groups (including adm, sudo, etc.) and only add me to cdrom (besides the primary group). — gertvdijk, Jul 16 '13 at 23:59

sajjadG · Answer 1 · 2017-02-03T12:45:49.293

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Yes

It is a common mistake that happens to many people. you probably missed -a flag in your command :)

This is the right command

sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers username

and this is probably what you typed (-a keeps all your previous groups)

sudo usermod -G vboxusers username

edited Feb 03 '17 at 12:45

answered Jul 17 '13 at 00:20

sajjadG

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Shame on me I probably did that mistake :( – Steve L Jul 17 '13 at 01:51
I always recommend using gpasswd for modifying group membership, for this reason e.g. gpasswd --add username vboxusers – steeldriver Feb 03 '17 at 12:57

Is it possible than my user disappears from sudo?

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