Haha, I did something similar to this once; I had screwed up what group I was in as well. After a while, about a four days, I realized that I had not received an email in a while. It was a simple fix, but I had a ton of mail to read through... -> Jake On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Jake Vath wrote: > > This what TCLUG is for! >> I'm glad you got everything figured out too. >> >> I guess /etc/sudoers has my name rather than uid listed, so I was in, >>> made changes, golden. >>> >> >> As far as I understand, */etc/sudoers* assigns privileges bases on user >> name and group name. >> So, yes. You don't have to worry about your *uid* or your *gid* in that >> regard. >> > > > Thanks for helping out, Jake. I didn't realize it until now, but because > my account was messed up, fetchmail wasn't giving me incoming mail in the > usual way and it was piling up in /var/mail with a name beginning with > "BOGUS". I was at the time a bogus user, I guess. > > > Mike > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120613/e3e0188e/attachment.html>