Deleted Myself from Admin Group - Now Getting Error usermod: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later
- by BubbaJ
I have a laptop with Ubuntu 11.10 that is shared between myself and two other family members. My user id was setup as the only "Administrator" on the laptop. The other users were setup as "Standard" users. In my attempt to try to add myself to the user groups for the other users, I somehow deleted myself from the admin groups. I used the…