Live CD Recovery: Add user to a Group

Add User to a Group

If you have removed yourself from a group, you can use the following to add yourself again. Please note that you can usually use RecoveryMode and run the adduser command directly.

  1. Boot the Ubuntu Live CD.
  2. Press Ctrl-Alt-F1

  3. sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

  4. sudo chroot /mnt

  5. adduser username groupname

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