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I removed admin rights for the original admin account, in order to set up a new account with clear history. (Not 100% that was needed, I am still getting to grips with linux / Ubuntu 12.04 and I read somewhere that its not wise to use original account day to day, which I initially did.)

However, I didn't activate the password for the new account before applying changes.

Here's what I did:

  1. set up new account (no password)
  2. Added admin Rights
  3. Removed admin right from original
  4. No admin access

It now seems as though I have no sudo /admin access. Since I need the 'unset' password of the inactive account, which is the only one with admin rights.

amc
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Try this

sudo passwd

It will ask you ur username Enter username of account u want to make root

It will ask you password

Enter password

And probably that should do the job

Tejas Ghalsasi
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