I locked myself out of sudo privileges, anyways to save myself?
by Disaster2life from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5PNN3)
I have been having a GREAT DAY.
I was messing around with Ardour today, but I had no audio output, I thought it had something to do with not having JACK, I decided to follow a tutorial and did so, but that didn't fix it and I actually lost all audio to my whole system, so I decided to undo all that I did, one of the step was to add my user account to a special music group, 5 minutes after finding out how to remove myself from it and doing it, I found out I had lost my sudo privileges, and I am the only user on the system. I looked up tutorials to fix this but all of them required me to get access to the root shell, which I can't because when I boot into the systemmd-boot, I don't have an option to get to recovery, any help with me just being able to get back my system without having to start over?
I use PopOS 21.04
I have a dell XPS 12-9q33(if that's relevant)
any help would be appreciated
I was messing around with Ardour today, but I had no audio output, I thought it had something to do with not having JACK, I decided to follow a tutorial and did so, but that didn't fix it and I actually lost all audio to my whole system, so I decided to undo all that I did, one of the step was to add my user account to a special music group, 5 minutes after finding out how to remove myself from it and doing it, I found out I had lost my sudo privileges, and I am the only user on the system. I looked up tutorials to fix this but all of them required me to get access to the root shell, which I can't because when I boot into the systemmd-boot, I don't have an option to get to recovery, any help with me just being able to get back my system without having to start over?
I use PopOS 21.04
I have a dell XPS 12-9q33(if that's relevant)
any help would be appreciated