Questions that relate to an area (or home directory), in which a user can store files pertaining exclusively to that user's activities, which is protected from access by other users. Related questions includes public profile issues, authentication to system services and the ability to be granted ...
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Problems with integrating Twitter with Friends in Ubuntu 13.04
While having no problems with the new Ubuntu 13.04 Friends app it suddenly stopped showing my Twitter feeds. It began when I started Twitter in Firefox and Ubuntu wanted to activate the Twitter ...
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User account problem
I am using ubuntu 12.10 and it is charming. I have installed several programs working smoothly all in a USB stick 32GB. However today I made an administrator account after that when I rebooted I was ...
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How do I get an UNANSWERED question reopened? [closed]
I keep go round and round about this. There are questions marked as duplicate where there is NO link to the ORIGINAL question.
I am not lying! I am not stupid! I CAN read! Many times questions have ...
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Empathy doesn't seem to be connected to Ubuntu Online Accounts
I made the decision to switch from Pidgin to Empathy on my Ubuntu 12.10 netbook. However, after uninstalling Pidgin and installing Empathy, there seems to be a disconnect between Empathy and Ubuntu ...
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Thunderbird : How to set unique folders for several e-mail accounts?
I'm using more and more e-mail lately and I would like to put some order into that. The thing is that I have two different accounts (Yahoo and Google)
The problem is :
I created a folder in ...
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Multiple Dropbox accounts on the same computer
Has anyone tried running multiple Dropbox accounts on one computer? What I would like is for every user to have their own Dropbox account/folder. On the Dropbox Help Center they write:
For our ...
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1answer
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Forward mail from a corporate mail account to gmail
I have two mail accounts, one of them (gmail) is my preferred and the other is a corporate one. I'd like to read all my email in the gmail account only. But the corporate mail doesn't have forward ...
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2 ubuntu one account on one e-mail adress [closed]
I have a rather odd problem. I have ubuntu one installed on 3 machines, 2 windows machine and 1 ubuntu machine. For all of them I'm logged in with the same account but on the Ubuntu machine I dont't ...
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Online accounts in 12.10 Facebook not working [closed]
I've added my Google, Twitter, and Windows Live accounts without any issues.
However, when I try to add a Facebook account, instead of opening in the system dialogue for online accounts, it opens up ...
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how do i gain acceess to a drive that owned by deleted user on ubuntu 11.10?
I did some trial on command line and creating a user account from it, then I logged off and logging to that newly created account (let us call it newaccount). Then I mounted one of my drive (I named ...
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How can I give my account admin powers again? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can i give Admin permissions to my account?
When I installed Ubuntu I used a password and "admin" type account. But accidentally I changed it's type to "standard". ...
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1answer
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Why does clicking 'Shutdown' from Menu only log me off? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Shutdown” or “Restart” logs out
Whenever I click 'Shutdown' from the menu it just logs me off. I have no accounts (Exept from Guest, but I keep it logged off) logged ...
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Security practice regarding users
Please understand that I've migrated to a Ubuntu Desktop from Win7 some months ago and while I have been reading about sudoers and Linux in general my understanding is still limited.
This is how I ...
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Multiple Ubuntu One accounts on one computer
Is this possible? For example, one for me@myself.tld, one for first_name.last_name@my_work.tld.
$ Ubuntu One - first
my_stuff/
$ Ubuntu One - second
work/
shared_with_coworkers/
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4answers
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How to change administrator username?
I have accidentally typed my name wrong when I created the administrator account. Although I managed to change the user name at the login screen, I am unable to rename the /home/oldusername to ...
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1answer
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How to set up U1 account after not receiving verification code?
I did not receive the verification code to complete the setup of my Ubuntu One account. What can I do to get it set up now?
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1answer
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Problems with my password
My problem is that I changed my username and computer name in ubuntu 12.04, when I restarted, the machine does not recognize my password, but it did recognize the new names user and computer.
When I ...
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How to restrict a user account to a specific time period [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I restrict my kids' computing time?
I'm using 12.04 and would like to make one user account open for use 24/7 and one account only available from 8:00am to ...
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How to lock yourself out of the primary account temporarily?
I'm looking for something like LeechBlock, or StayFocusd on steroids, i.e. something that could block my Internet access temporarily, but do it in a way that would be a major hassle to disable, unlike ...
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What are some google chrome apps that deal with multiple google accounts? [closed]
I mainly need this to access my multiple gmail accounts.
thank you!
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1answer
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Will I loose my data from windows if I import my account to Ubuntu 12.04
I'm installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and right now it's importing my only account from Windows 7.
I'm wondering: Is it just copying and pasting my account, or is it removing my account from Windows ...
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Online accounts icon always has the “Unavailable” icon, how to fix?
At the top right in the GNOME Shell interface, where it has the username and little speech bubble icon, this icon always defaults to Unavailable, even when I am actually signed in and "Available" (on ...
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How can I regain admin privileges?
I'm very new to Linux so I don't understand a lot of the terms you guys use. I need a basic answer on why I keep getting admin group does not exist. I accidentally changed my initial account from ...
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Can not create a new user in ubuntu 11.10
I can't create a new user and can't log in as guest user.When i tried to create a new user a dialogue box and it says..Failed to create user.. running '/usr/sbin/adduser' failed: /usr/sbin/adduser ...
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software on two accounts
On Ubuntu I have two accounts one for me and one for my sister. I downloaded a game off the Ubuntu Software Center but I can only play it when logged in to my account
(The one I download it on)
but ...
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How to create an FTP account for one folder?
I have a folder:
/srv/ftp_folder
How would one go about setting up an FTP account with upload/download for that folder only with no other access?
(Using Ubuntu Server 11.10)
Thanks in advance!
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evolution 3.2 not deleting duplicate email account
After upgrading Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10
I found duplicate mail accounts in the Evolution listing.
I removed the unwanted ones, both unsubscribing and deleting them
for Preferences/Account. I also ...
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1answer
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Restrict access from another user to the NTFS partition
It is possible somehow restrict access to a partition to a specific user in Ubuntu? I am using Ubuntu x64 11.10, I made 2 accounts, both accounts belong to the Administrators group. And I have 3 ...
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Problem on mounting partitions after create new account
I created a new account(administrator) and delete the first account .
In this new account , The partitions are access denied . Some error like these are occur : "You are not owner" "You don't have ...
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2answers
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How to move a part of my files to another ubuntu one account?
I want to give a part of my files to another ubuntu one account, in cause of change of responsibilities...
By now, the files are originally stored on my computer and shared to the other account. From ...
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1answer
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Change account in Ubuntu One?
I inadvertently created a new Ubuntu One account for myself when I got a new laptop. (I have 2 email addresses, and the one I input was not the one on which I had already created my Ubuntu One ...
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1answer
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Can't change account in Ubuntu One Control Center
My Ubuntu One Control Center on my computer uses one account. My Ubuntu One app on my android phone uses a different one. I want to change my account on my computer to the one that my phone uses but I ...
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3answers
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How to restrict total time usage for an account [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I set computer usage time limits?
I've looked at a number of other threads but most of them talk about how to restrict the time of day an account can log in... ...
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2answers
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How to select which account is logged in at system startup, or none?
I'm helping out some friends with a tiny hospitality business where one desktop computer has some files used by the business in one account "hotel" but it's mostly used by guests for browsing the web ...
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1answer
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Keyboard shortcut to switch user accounts
I want to quickly switch user accounts with a shortcut combination, something similar how a session can be ended by Ctrl + Alt + Del or locking the screen by Ctrl + Alt + L ?
(I'm using Unity, 11.10)
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2answers
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CompizConfig killed Unity, only Unity2D works now
I went into CompizConfig Settings Manager to disable a setting in the Grid plugin (Snap windows back to original size.)
As soon as I checked it off, the screen flickered for a moment, the launcher ...
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Trouble authenticating and with groups. Phantom duplicate user account?
I'm sometimes having trouble authenticating and it seems I'm no longer a member of the 'admin' group. Or I am.... but I have two user accounts with the same name and only one of them is... or ...
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1answer
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Give permission to user ONLY to install applications
I've been using linux for 6 years, but only now I had the task of creating 2 accounts into one PC. Those 2 accounts are Admin(Mine) and User(My Mother's), the problem is, when she tried to install an ...
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1answer
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How do I manage multiple ubuntuone accounts?
I have 2 ubuntuone accounts. I am logged it to the first I created, and my ubuntu natty pc folders are synced with that account.
I want to switch my ubuntu pc to the second account, but I can't find ...
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Oneiric desktop looks seriously defect after updates [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Desktop forgets theme?
Probably a coincidence, but after applying the fix to How to get the proper LightDM theme? and running the latest batch of updates, my desktop ...
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2answers
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Can I have a single login for multiple machines?
I've got three identical machines for my 3 kids, running Narwhal, but I'd like to replicate the user accounts across all 3 so anyone can login on any machine without me having to create all accounts ...
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3answers
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How to remotely lock out users from logging in temporarily
I'm not sure how to word this. I would like to be able to, remotely, lock down my kids' access either for an amount of time, or have lock/unlock control. Basically, I want to lock out an account ...
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How can I disable all requests for passwords? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make Ubuntu not ask me for my password?
i want to disable all password requests on natty narwal. my laptop is only on when im using it, and it never leaves my ...
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3answers
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Why is there a new Group for me as a User?
Why is it that when I install Ubuntu with a user name, a new group is created with that name too?
Is there a reason we're not just plain Administrators?
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2answers
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How to reset main user account?
My main account got messed up, as I tried to fix it things went downhills.
keyboard mess - tried unity --restore and deleting .gconf2*, fail
deleted .* in ~, total havoc. Chromium and Firefox ...
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1answer
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Does Ubuntu One offer a corporate account
I am interested in having all of our computers in our company syncing with Ubuntu One. Is there a corporate account program?
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how do I recreate my ubuntu account?
I ran sudo apt-get remove wine* and it removed my account. When I try to log in a nivida screen flashes (that's normal) and then I'm back at the log in screen. What can I do? I have files that I don't ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu One Multiple accounts
I would like to use 1 account for keeping private files synchronised and another for business files, which will be read by others. I have different e-mail addresses for business and private.
The ...
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How to make folder writable to 2 users in different groups?
I have a folder (/var/www/test7.com), which must be readable/writable by www-data AND test7 users.
test7 user should not have access to other websites.
How can I do that?
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Empathy fails to show any contacts, accounts say status is set to offline when it isn't
When I start Empathy absolutely no contacts appear, including if I check to show offline contacts.
My accounts are set up and authenticated and yes - I do have contacts on both accounts. When I check ...
