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Due to a mishap with my main profile I am wondering if anyone could assist me in making my secondary profile the administrator.

Something went wrong with my primary profile and I can no longer see anything but my desktop/shortcuts. I cannot get the command terminal to pop up or anything. Considering this last piece of information, I am interested in giving my secondary profile the administrator position so that I can use sudo commands. Otherwise, I cannot properly download programs.

Is there anyone who has knowledge on how to do this or has any other suggestions I can attempt? Thank you in advance!

Aaron

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You can login to a terminal using Ctrl+Alt+F1. There, login with your account (primary or secondary), and then give sudo privileges to your secondary profiles typing:

sudo adduser "username" sudo

replacing "username" by the name of your secondary account. This will add it to the sudoers group (named sudo, not admin).

Then, exit that terminal typing exit, press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to go back to your X session, log out and login again. Now you should have sudo privileges.