Questions about Computer Administration
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ntpd vs ntpdate: pros and cons
In order to keep the time accurate on a Ubuntu system one can either:
Run the ntpd (network time protocol daemon) which will run all the time and continuously adjust the system time when clocks ...
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Disable discovery or listing of HDD partitions
I would like to disable auto detection or listing of certain partitions in applications such as Nautilus. I have a HP laptop that contains a recovery partition along with a EFI partition and I would ...
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How to disable update notification for all users?
This is a partial case of the more general question "Don't bother non-admin users with admin questions":
I have several non-admin users on a computer and I want to disable software updates for all of ...
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Don't bother non-admin users with admin questions
My wife and kids use ubuntu laptops which I administer.
How do I prevent the system from, e.g., offering them software updates? (I know I can disable that for the whole box, but that is just one ...
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'w' command not showing users list when not root ('who' does)
I have multiple users logged on my server (ubuntu 12.10), with ssh. None of them has root privileges.
If I then log in with my admin account and type (without sudoing)
admin1@server:~$ w
the ...
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Need a simple, foolproof remote admin for Ubuntu Server
I'm running an Ubuntu server 12.10 box and need a foolproof remote admin for my wife/kids who have even less experience of linux than I.
The box only runs as file server and our LAN Minecraft server. ...
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Limited access accounts for a low maintenance deployment?
Forgive me if I haven't done quite as much digging trying to solve this on my own as I could have: I'm currently in Zambia, and my internet access is unpredictible and slow when it's working.
I'm ...
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Easy way to disable/remove GeoClue checkin? [duplicate]
I see that Ubuntu "checks in" to Canonical's GeoIP lookup. Is there a clean way (preferably in the GUI) to disable this?
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How to create an image of an entire remote system for using on other (virtual) remote machines?
I have ordered several virtual machines from a hosting provider, which all need exactly the same setup:
same users
same programs installed
same config (except for hostname) including cron-jobs
Is ...
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How to give nopasswd access to multiple commands via sudoers?
Below is what I know:
I have to add this below line in sudoers file to give rights to the user for particular task.
%user_name% ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/apt-get install
In this case I want to give ...
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Recommend way to setup a terminal program to run in the background on boot?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 Server edition. Currently I boot up the server, log in, run the application "screen", run an existing terminal program to do some work, and then use screen to lock the ...
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How can I restore the administration menu?
I do not know how I did it but I am now missing my administration menu. I am using 12.04 (but with all upgrades) and GNOME FALL-BACK. Could anyone direct me on how to restore it? I have tried adding ...
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Is there a way that I can make people have to input an administrators password to change the desktop background?
I have a problem of lots of people changing my desktop background. Is there a way that I can make people have to input an administrators password to change the desktop background. I am running ...
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Canonical way to describe server purpose
Is there a canonical way (no pun intended) to describe the purpose of a specific machine?
I have to administer serveral hosts all with the same hostname ("www"). On the shell prompt i can not ...
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How do I add a network printer in Ubuntu 12.04?
I know the name and the IP address of a network printer, but I can't seem to be able to search by IP address or name.
Ubuntu developers love to move things around to make it difficult for users, so ...
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Preventing Users/Groups from accessing certain Domains
I have created a Study account which I use when doing anything school related work. It's purpose is to remove the distractions of my normal account, such as social media and news websites.
I know ...
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What happened to the graphical PolicyKit settings?
Back in 8.04 or so, when PolicyKit was new, we had a GUI "browser" that enabled us to easily decide things like whether a user should be allowed to shutdown the system when other users were logged in ...
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Is server alive app
I'm just wondering, is there an Ubuntu program to check if certain IP's are up ?
I have a few servers and i'm searching for a small program\app\indicator to ping\telnet\tcp-connect my servers and ...
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Prevent Apache restarting automatically after upgrading packages
Following on from an earlier question: Is there a way to download security updates and notify admin without installing the update?
A large number of packages interact with Apache (especially PHP) ...
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Is there a way to download security updates and notify admin without installing the update?
We use apt to download and install security updates on our production server, and most of the time this works well for us. However, this morning, our server downloaded an update, installed the ...
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What's the complement of `top -u`?
The top -u mary command allows me to see all jobs running by user mary.
What is the command to show the complement of that: all top processes except the jobs running by mary?
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I want to be asked for password for mounting drives
In earlier Ubuntu releases (As far as I remember Natty had it) we were asked for password while trying to mount the drive using Nautilus. But in Ubuntu 12.04 (also in 11.10) it is removed. But I want ...
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What can I do to give some more love and disk space to my database on Ubuntu? [closed]
I'm new to linux. I've deployed a db to ubuntu server on amazon and found out I'm low on disk space. did df (see below) - and found out that I'm 89% capacity on one file system, but less on others. ...
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Tweaking User privileges Ubuntu 12.04
I would like to fine tune user privileges after reviewing default available privileges for a standard user.
Is there a way to fine tune it? I was using 10.04 and 10.10 until now and I could not ...
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Allow non-admin users to mount drives via nautilus
I want to give mount privilege to the non-admin users to mount the drives via nautilus. I don't want them to give other admin privilege. I also don't want to use setuid method.
How can I achieve ...
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HOW TO GET TO STEP 1 IN UBUNTU ADMINISTRATION (newbie [closed]
OK, I am reading the help files, honestly. Step 1 of what I want to do is "Click your user name in the men "u , or else' From the menu, click System,Administration... or "Places.."
I have never ...
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polkit: disable all users except those in group wheel?
Is it possible to do the following using 1 polkit .pkla file?
Disable all users except those in the wheel group from using polkit.
The users in the wheel group will need to provide the root password ...
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WMI Windows Management Instrumentation on Ubuntu
Is there a tool for accessing windows'wmi interface?
I know once there was wmic-client (hardy) but it has been removed.
I'd like to administrate some windows machines remotely trough shell: i.e. ...
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How can I set a global timeout for the screensaver?
I am trying to to set a global screensaver and blanking idle timout (with screen locking) that will affect all new user accounts. I noticed that gnome-screensaver in 12.04 when configured by a user, ...
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Recommendation of web server admin control panel (free, open source, deb package)?
I'm looking for:
a safe/secure web admin control panel for a web server
preferably free and open source
in official repositories or at least with regular updates and an easy way to update to newer ...
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Is it possible to get Drakconf in Ubuntu?
I am using PCLOS for a long time, but now considering to switch to Kubuntu due some unsolved issues in this distro and also because of much bigger applications choice in repositories.
However, ...
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Disable lock when screen turns off for all users on 12.04
I can turn off lock after screen is turned off for myself from System Settings -> Brightness and Lock, but how to do this for the different user (or all users in the system)?
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I unexpetedly deleted administrator account and the other accounts are asking root password
I unexpectedly deleted my user account (the only administrator for the machine). I have another account which is standard account now i cant access my hard disk or anything with that standard account ...
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How can I add my user to the sudo list? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add myself back as a sudo user?
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04, Now I am using standard user, but I want to change my user to admin when I got the following ...
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How do I get around administrator priviliges are required for this task when installing real vnc?
When I try to install real VNC and enter in the registration code I get administrator privileges are required for this task. How do I get around this? I am the only user on the computer and already ...
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Deactivated my Systemadministrator whil i was loged in as standard-user so I can't reactivate it because of the deactivated administrator-password [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost Administrative (root) password?
(My distribution is Ubuntu 12.04)
because of the advice to deactivate the Root-User in reasons for safty etc. I ...
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Shell Scripting for Linux Server Administration
I recently started learning Linux(Ubuntu), and i'm aware that Linux has it's own form of language i.e Shell Scripting. What i'll like to know is that is this language enough to administer a Linux ...
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Create shared shortcuts for Guest login
I have decided to use Ubuntu as my base OS for my internet cafe machines, and also for the thin clients that connect to my Windows terminal server running 2008 R2. 8 machines in internet cafe room, ...
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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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How to create a “shutdown user” or “shutdown account”
Red Hat had a feature useful to me at the present time. There was an account, generally called "shutdown", and when you logged in with the account, the system shut down.
In my specific case, I have ...
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Is there a graphical method for modifying users' group memberships?
If I want to fine-tune a user's permissions, can I do it using a graphical interface?
On the User Accounts screen I only see the option to change something called "Account type" between Standard and ...
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How do I add myself into the sudoers group? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add a user to the “sudo” group?
I've added myself back into the admin's group I think, by following this.
But I still can't do commands like:
sudo aptitude ...
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How to Run files and open folders as an administrater 11.10
Solved!!!
Enable open as administrator in nautilus!
To get started, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the commands below:
enter code here
sudo apt-get ...
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Is there an admin panel to administer services? [closed]
I am looking for a free admin panel for my 32bit Ubuntu 10.04 Server
I will use it for setup/edit ftp accounts, dns settings, mysql settings etc.
Which one do you prefer? and why?
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Hardware logs storage?
I have a Ubuntu Server 11.10 installed. wanted to know where hardware related logs are stored & is there any configuration that needs to be done, for those logs to be activated?
If possible ...
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Tool for cleaning installed fonts
I have have installed too much fonts (11.10); now my system is very slow (memory full, etc.). Does a tool exist in order to clean my mess up?
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Network Administrating Software (Similar to ClearOS)
I am looking for a network administrating software that is similar to the ClearOS in this link: http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/screenshots.html
Of course the software should be for Ubuntu or ...
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How to remove a locale (i.e. to drop it from `$LANGUAGE` variable)?
For some reason I have an extra unneeded language installed on my system (more precisely, $LANGUAGE variable is ru:en_CA:en where supposed to be ru:en, and also apt tries to load addresses like ...
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Log viewer cant open syslog after messing up groups
I was doing some VirtualBox stuff today and I had so add my user to vbox group, well I did it wrong and I removed myself from sudoers. I used the recovery console and fixed it with this command:
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What commands should every Linux network admin know? [closed]
What commands are necessary for a Linux network administrator to do his job? Most networking related commands should go here. Please post examples if you possibly can.
