Questions tagged [accounts]

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 authorization to access accounts.

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How do I disable remote SSH login as root from a server?

For security purposes my company wants me to not allow anyone to be able to log into our Ubuntu server as root remotely over SSH. We still want the root account to exist, we just do not want it to be ...
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Why there are many guest accounts on my system?

After I saw this answer, I realized that there are many guest accounts on my system: grep guest /etc/passwd guest-jzXeRx:x:117:127:Guest,,,:/tmp/guest-jzXeRx:/bin/false guest-l5dAPU:x:118:128:Guest,,,...
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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 /home/...
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How to add a guest account without a password?

Sometimes I have friends in my house that want use my computer. How can they use a guest account without typing a password?
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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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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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How to add an account to StackApplet?

I have recently installed StackApplet and I want to add my account to it. However, I can't do so as I am unable to select a site properly. See this screenshot: When I press on the option Site ...
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Should I keep the OEM's default account?

Since a few days I've a new laptop running Ubuntu Linux. During the installation I had to create my own user account. After rebooting, I saw, that the manufacture created a second user called oem (...
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How can I run a program (wine) as a distinct user by shortcut?

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to run wine under a different account for security reasons. I also want to access it from different accounts. So I made an account called wine and now I want a way ...
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AccountService and UID < 1000

currently I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and have set my User UID to 501 (interop with Mac). However even after setting login.defs: UID_MIN 500 UID_MAX 60000 # System ...
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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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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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Multiple Google Drive Accounts (grive)

I have installed grive for my Google Drive integration in Ubuntu 12.04, Can I to add multiple google accounts with multiple grive instances? I'm doing something similar with Dropbox then I would think ...
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How do I manage multiple ubuntuone accounts? [duplicate]

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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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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I get automatically logged out instantly after logging in

In ubuntu terminal whenever I try to log in it instantly logs me out. On one account it just logs me out for no reason and on all other accounts it says Could not chdir to home directory /home/tom: ...
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Why was I locked out of Xubuntu machine after an xrdp session from windows?

Recently, I tried the method in Can I access Ubuntu from Windows remotely to connect from a Windows 10 laptop to an xfce session on a workstation running Xubuntu. After logging off that machine, ...
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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 on, but ...
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