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How to change my UID back in passwd file?
My OS is Ubuntu 12.10, and my account is called acgtyrant, and its UID is 1000. For the need of researching, I changed my UID from 1000 to 1010 in /etc/passwd, and then I found my files' master ...
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Locked out after using usermod
After trying to change my password with usermod -p <new password> <username>
( which seemed to work but didn't give any messages ) I found I could not log in using either my old or new ...
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Why is there a shell given to user for PostgreSQL?
cat /etc/passwd |grep postgre
postgres:x:115:127:PostgreSQL administrator,,,:/var/lib/postgresql:/bin/bash
apt-cache show postgresql
Package: postgresql
Priority: optional
Section: database
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Unable to change user password in Ubuntu 12.10
The User Password is not changing for some reason.
In the terminal it says password updated successfully,
$ sudo passwd
[sudo] password for zaigham:
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX ...
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Ubuntu User Accounts messed up
I need to fix Ubuntu Accounts but somehow don't really see how it could be done.
The problem is: files /etc/passwd and /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts where changed.
/etc/passwd
After
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Cycles through black screen on login after changing password
On my laptop, I forgot the password to my Ubuntu partition, so I logged into the root command shell on the recovery start up option in GRUB so that I could change the password.
On my first attempt to ...
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installation password [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost Administrative (root) password?
I just updated to ubuntu 11.10 and am getting "Your authentication attempt was unsuccessful." I am the only user ...
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Do I need user 1000, and can I replace it?
On my computer running Mythbuntu, I'm having a problem where some important processes are being run by a user called 1000.
$ ps -aux | grep myth
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See ...
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Why do I keep getting “invalid password” when trying to log in?
I have read and tried everything that I can find and I am still having issues logging in. I have Ubuntu 11.10 that I have put on my machine a couple of weeks ago and I still cannot log in. It says ...
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useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later
Trying to add a user:
useradd -c "test" -d /home/bbbbbbbb -e "01-jan-2013"
-f 10 -g admin -p secretfgjdhdgd -s /bin/bash -u 123456 blobblob
but getting:
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try ...
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I deleted the “/etc/passwd” file and cannot log in
I was trying to change my username and also my home directory (/home/username) and my system started to crash. I deleted the passwd file but I had a backup named passwd_bkp. I tried to rename this ...
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Where is the username and password stored
Just for my curiosity ,where is the username and associated password is stored in ubuntu? And how it is verified at the login time?
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Replacement for non-interactive “chpasswd -e”?
On older Debian machines one could issue something like:
echo '<username>:*'|chpasswd -e
in order to change the password field of the user (<username>) to *.
Now I am aware of
passwd ...
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After disabling password at login, the system will not accept a password to modify the system. Cannot install, uninstall, or modify anything. HELP? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost Administrative(root) password?
I have been using Ubuntu on and off for a number of years. I have always been a fan. I have been having issues on ...
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different mailbox formats for special dovecot/system users
On a server me and a friend set up we're currently using mbox mailbox format.
(Think I should mention that my friend set up the mail part of the server and I yet don't know too much about mailserver ...
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How to add user without useradd command?
Is it possible to add a user in ubuntu linux without useradd command I think its possible by adding the entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow but i don't know the exact steps to do it and the user ...
