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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Ubuntu 18.4 : How to choose the sudo-account to use on "Authentication Required"?
When we need admin rights to do some stuff on Ubuntu 18.04, we are prompted with an Authentication Required window, asking for a sudo-account's password.
My problem is that it seems we can't choose ...
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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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Can not connect online accounts - options are greyed out
I'm trying to connect my Google and Microsoft accounts but seems like the function is deactivated. Clicking the three dots didn't work.
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Is there better way for acct logrotaton or an alternative to the tool itself?
Hello I have a similar problem as discussed in /var/log/account/pacct is getting too big, where is ckpacct (to cicle/gzip it)?
While the problem exists it would be preferable to compress the logs ...
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Slurm new user on Ubuntu 18.04
I am a very new user of Ubuntu (escaped from Windows recently) and yesterday when I was turning on my PC I found new user listed in login options with a nickname "Slurm" (I am the only user with a ...
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Why does Ubuntu include accounts for packages that aren't installed?
Why does Ubuntu include accounts for packages that aren't installed (such as gnats, irc,...)? Seems the accounts should be created as needed when the packages are installed, not sitting there in the ...
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Ubuntu only creates guest account during install
I have installed Ubuntu and the login screen only displays a guest account to use. How can I get my account that I setup when installing Ubuntu to show up as an option at the login screen ? I am ...
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Is it possible for ubuntu to change user itself
I was streaming data from Twitter and let my laptop open at night. In the morning, i saw that Ubuntu is open with Guest user not my user account. I wondered how can it be. Is it possible for ubuntu to ...
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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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I can't access into my Ubuntu account 14.04
For disgrace I have asked advice in "chiedi Ubuntu" forum - the Italian version of ask Ubuntu - and for following their advice, I can't get anymore in my Ubuntu account due to internal errors of the ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Online Accounts
I am new in Ubuntu, and try to setup my Facebook account on my desktop in order to online chat/messaging via my FB account, but when I click on Facebook on System Settings>Online Accounts it gives ...
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zApDtG guest account?
I'm using ubuntu 13.10
Where did guest account zApDtG with root privileges come from? I can't gather much information, as this guest account has root privileges and being a brand new user, I don't. ...
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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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User settings are back to fresh installation
I was trying to set Plex and found this instructions to allow Plex user to access certain folders https://www.linuxcapable.com/install-plex-media-server-on-ubuntu-linux/#Configure-Media-Files-Folders-...
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Installing MariaDB with different account
I would like to install MariaDB on Ubuntu with a different account. What I see ? If I simple apt install mariadb-server it deploys MariaDB with mysql user and mysql group. I tried first to reconfigure ...
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What is this "Account Update" progress bar?
This pop up appeared for me just now. I hit esc and it disappeared but it was super puzzling. How would I even know what that was?
It just said "Account Update" and "Account update in ...
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SSSD: Why do I have to use my previous windows password when I login to the server?
I have to change password every third (?) month and I can’t login with the one I currently use in windows but instead the one that I had before this one.
[sssd]
domains = (HIDDEN).local
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Ruined my ~/.local and .config/ Tips for restoring?
I messed up both my .config/ and .local/ directories*. I had no idea these were so important! Tried restoring from backup but just got a useless error message about it doing being able to perform ...
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login and guest session
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. I have an issue where I can't log in to the guest session, and it does not even appear after booting into my machine. clicking on "switch accounts" does nothing. And when I log ...
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how Locked account runs services
I wonder how a locked account, typically www-data, can run a service, for example apache2, if it has /usr/sbin/nologin as shell?
Is there a way to do in a root session, something like this:
root# su ...
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Can not start after upgrade from 16.04 to 17.10
I upgraded my system from UbuntuStudio 16.04 to 17.10.
But... Now, when I want to enter to the system (log in) I can not to do it because system doesn't recognize my user account password!
I mean, I ...
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Login only as guest, after have modified ~/.profile file
Yesterday I have modified the file .profile, adding a new PATH at the end of it. After this change I can only login as guest user. Could these two things be connected? How could I solve this problem?
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Reply to received XMPP messages with M10
I have manually setup an XMPP account in my M10 tablet using mc-tool and I can receive XMPP messages without problems. However I cannot answer them because it doesn't have an SIM card:
Will this be ...
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Inheriting files from Admin to Standard users
I am cloning some machines with 16.04 LTS on them, using clonezilla, and I can't figure out how to share/pass files on to another account when it's created. To be more specific, say I have some files ...
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There is no dialog box to input password for users other the main user
I recently installed Ubuntu 15.10 (Ubuntu MATE) and created a main account, 'rwabuhesi' from which I created another one, 'qulay'.
From the terminal, I can log into both accounts and even move files ...
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Pidgin remove account?
I just install Pidgin. I cannot login facebook chat with Pidgin anymore (API deprecated), so Pidgin stuck at connecting status. How can I open account manager to remove the FB account and add another ...
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Account removal on Ubuntu 14.10
Will removing an administrator account remove my ppas added in my repository?
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Use Google Open ID to automatically create accounts/login to Ubuntu
What I'd love to be able to do is to have the ability to use Google's Open ID system to have users automatically authenticate with Ubuntu.
Yes, it would be Chromium OS-like in its login but there are ...
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how to activate the root user and delete user 1 on console
First, I know this must be the a question asked so often, that you could not count it's duplicates. But all I found here has not solved my problem.
How to activate the root user after a fresh install ...
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How to show old account on the greeter
TL;DR --> I want to know how to make an old account show up after reinstallation of Ubuntu so that I can log in to that account and not have to reinstall all the other software I had installed on that ...
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Gear menu - switch account doesn't work
Running Ubuntu 13.10.
I open the gear menu, and see a list of users. Clicking on them does nothing. Shouldn't it allow me to switch accounts?
Follow up: If I am logged in as a user that doesn't have ...
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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 ...