Questions regarding passwords and the use of them. Where and when it is needed for system security.
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Saving Keyring Password
I have found the answer to this but I'm posting it here in case others have the same issue and also asking if anyone has any more details ;-)
I use Firefox and Thundirbird's "Gnome Keyring Password ...
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Ubuntu infinity progress circle that appears after typing the password and pressing the Enter key is frozen
I don't know how to take a screen shot at the moment you're logging in, so I'll try to explain the component I'm referring to.
If you set your Ubuntu to ask for password before the system start, of ...
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how to change password of an enrypted ubuntu user account?
I changed my ubuntu user password using:
$ sudo passwd
now when I reboot and login using the new password, following warning is displayed:
Signature not found in user keyring
perhaps try the ...
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Will microsoft recovery mess up Ubuntu?
My brother was setting Ubuntu up, and he typed my password in wrong. I never expected I'd have to use a password recovery so I didn't use it. Now I'm wondering: if I factory windows but retain user ...
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Change Samba password from Windows client
I set up a Samba server on Ubuntu 12.04 in a network with five clients running Windows 7. We're not using a domain, just a workgroup. Everything is working fine.
Is there a way users can change their ...
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How often is the password asked for sudo commands? Where can I set it up?
I execute quite a lot of sudo commands.
I noticed that if I execute one and then another one within few minutes, the 2nd time I don't get the message:
[sudo] password for my_username:
but I do ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 on Dell Latitude D610 Password reset?
I just gave a DELL Latitude D610 with Ubuntu 13.04 to my dad for fathers day. I set it so that there was no required admin password and an automatic login at startup. However, while he was using it ...
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Can't connect to wifi when there's a password, realtek 8723, 13.04
I have seen Cant connect to wifi on 13.04 but the answer did not help and I have a realtek 8723 not 8188. I connect just fine when there is no password.thanks very much.
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How worried should I be about port 22?
I am learning Hadoop and I need to ssh onto localhost in order to set up a pseudo distributed system. I read on another forum:
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help with authentication password [duplicate]
When I try to install or remove software it asks for an authentication password but I don't have a password and never set one so how do I reset the password
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Vodafone Webbook
I have a Vodafone Webbook, but I have lost the password. What can I do to reset the assword? Holding down shift / esc / shift+esc does not bring up a grub menu.
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Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit desktop security problem: password prompt delay
My computer is set to lock and require a password after a little while. WHen I come to my computer after it has been sitting for a while, it lets me do some things and then all of a sudden I am ...
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Computer asking me for login keyring I didn't set?
I recently acquired an Ubuntu Matrix netbook. When I leave it a while on, it locks
itself up and asks me then for a password. Recently it asks me for another password that says:
Enter password to ...
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How can I prevent a user from changing their password? [duplicate]
I want to prevent a user from changing their own password. Additionally, if possible, I want to prevent them from changing it via sudo.
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Unable to log in
Although I've set up a username and password when I was installing Ubuntu 13.04, when I type inmy password it says it's incorrect although language is checked and my password's correct. What's wrong?
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Login problem - enter password and it just asks fo rthe password again
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on an IBM T43 laptop.
I hadn't used the laptop for a few weeks and forgot the password so reset it using the info found on here but now after entering the password the screen ...
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Root password needed
When I first installed Ubuntu 13.04 from a USB stick I was asked to fill in for user username and password so I set one on my own. When I run Ubuntu I click log in but it automatically logs me in as ...
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Password and music
It has been so long that I have used my password for administrator, how can I reset it?
or do without it?
Why doesn't the music play on a Power Point presentation?
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I can authenticate but can not login in using my password?
Here is my story :
there were days when I had my password and everything was fine.
I removed my password :
Opened User accounts
Unlocked it by pressing "Unlock" button
Selected my username (btw, I ...
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Administrative password not accepted
My password works when I log on, and it works when I'm in Terminal and I am accessing Root.
The problem is when I try to install a Lexmark S405 printer driver in Terminal I'm asked for the ...
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Hide “show wifi password” (don let show wifi password)
I've got to put a wifi password on my school laptops (all users are admin) but I don't want to the children see the password when you go edit conextions and edit de wifi like is see in the pictures. ...
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Wifi only accepts passwords of 5 or 13 characters
Installed Ubuntu 13.04 and when attempting to connecting to a home wifi network, the connect button is only click-able with passwords of 5 or 13 characters.
Is there a fix?
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Is there a way that I can disable change password
I have 20 computers in a high school lab and I want to set up a standard student log in. This is done, the problem is that students can change the password to anything, is there a way to block this? ...
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13.04 doesnt remember wired network password
I recently updated to 13.04 version of ubuntu (kinda disapointing) and every time I boot ubuntu, I have to login to my school network, even though system should remember password (dont save password ...
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Turning off all the anoying password prompts [duplicate]
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04LTS. Its been 2 days that I'm looking for a solution for the enormously annoying password prompts.
The suggestions that i have found, on all of the forums, did not ...
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How can I hide username and password to be displayed in terminal while downloading files using axel downloader [closed]
How can I hide username and password to be displayed in terminal while downloading files using axel downloader? Is there any option available to hide downloading details like username and password or ...
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System requests a password when booting from disk
I just downloaded the latest release of ubuntu 13.04 and burned the iso into a disk. Now, when I boot from disk it asks for a username and password, it's the first time am using it on the machine. ...
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download files with user name and password using axel downloader not accepting special characters like ; : < >
When I download files with user name and password using axel downloader it will download.
Working Example
axel.exe http://mathanraj:78tyu@xxxx.com/xxx.zip (no probleam)
but the problem is if ...
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No mouse or Keyboard, and I forgot my bleeding password!
So I installed ubuntu on two computers. One is a dinky laptop with a ten inch screen, 2 gig of ram and a teeny tiny keyboard. It works great on the laptop.
The other computer is an all in one, touch ...
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How to stop Software Updater from request password for a specific user? [duplicate]
How can I stop Software Updater from asking me (and only me) for password when updating its files?
I understand that I should tell somebody (PolicyKit?) that I don't want password prompts for ...
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How can I make it possible for all users to log in without a password?
I have a system with two accounts. The primary (and administrator) account automatically logs in at boot time and is used 95% of the time. On occasion I need to logout and switch to a secondary ...
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How do I recover my root password in ubunto terminal? [duplicate]
I'm trying to install xampp in my Ubuntu and in the process its asking for my root password which i don't remember ? I know my sudo user password. How can I recover my root password ? Please help !!
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You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user
From launchpad I have an email containing OpenPGP encrypted key. I received that email in gmail. But gmail wont decrypt it. Then I setup Thunderbird for gmail account and installed Enigmail for ...
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Deja Dup does not ask for password for FTP, CIFS, WebDAV or SSH
I'd like to backup my $HOME to my local NAS using CIFS ("Samba", "Windows"), WebDAV, SSH or FTP. I don't care which one (or should I care? My NAS (Synology DS212) supports all).
I've made somce ...
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Unable to login after changing User Password
My problem already listed in the forum but unfortunately it is closed and no satisfying answer available in that post. So, I am opening a new thread.
I am using ubuntu 13.04. I changed my password ...
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why doesnt ubuntu 13.04 prompt me for a password after suspend?
I am on 13.04 and waking from suspend takes me straight to desktop without a password prompt even though it is set to ask for a password in the brightness and lock settings.
Also I recently tried to ...
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ubuntu 13.04 claims my root password wrong
while opening the bleachbit(as root) , gedbi and bootup- manager , it asks for the root password and on entering the password shows that the password is wrong ,
for other things like updating , ...
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Root account at set up
When I set up Ubuntu (Ubuntu 10.) on my old IBM Thinkpad it asked me my name for user name I assume, and to chose a password. I did all that, now, I'm coming to Ubuntu from Mepis 11, and it's pretty ...
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How can I use the backspace character as a backspace when entering a password? [closed]
I just saw this code somewhere.
It allows the user to enter his password and change it to an asterisk/star.
But it doesn't recognize the backspace key.
The code thinks that the backspace is part of ...
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ubuntu 13.04 failed to start any GUI application as root
I just installed ubuntu 13.04 in family machine, and I faced strange problem
even though my sudo password is correct, I cannot start any GUI application (i.e. bleachBit (as root)) as a root, the ...
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Password will not work for “remove orphaned packages” option
I am set as the administrator. Password works for all other password prompts. Does anyone know why this might be?
I'm running xubuntu in raring ring-tail on a windows 7 machine via virtualbox, but ...
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GNOME 3.8 blacks out the screen when Ubuntu asks for password
In Unity: When Ubuntu asks for your administrator password, a dialog box appears that don't interfere with your work. You can switch to other applications or minimize that dialog box.
In GNOME (GNOME ...
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Why I can't change my password in ubuntu?
I tried multiple times in terminal to change my password. but it throwing error but i filled up all requirements.
naga@naga:~$ passwd
Current password:
New password:
Re-enter password:
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change proxy username -ubuntuone on windows
ubuntuone asked for my proxy username during install, i used it for a while then the password had to be changed. now one is still using the old password.
Tried to reinstall but the password dialog ...
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You know my password but I don't [migrated]
How do I cancel my "log in" so that I can start over from scratch. Because you know my password I can sign in. But when I go to change my profile I can't enter enter my password because I don't know ...
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PAM_TALLY and Faillog: Successful Sudo Counts as Failure [closed]
I am controlling login failures in /etc/pam.d/common-password and common-auth.
I am a sudo user, I can log in without issues, but when I try to run the Ubuntu Software Center to run updates, I'm ...
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Password changed for no reason?
I'm having a problem logging into my computer. I have Ubuntu 12.04 and I am 100% sure I didn't change my password, although I tried typing it 100 times, it's not working.
I restarted the computer, I ...
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Lubuntu's asking password for shutting down
I've Lubuntu 13.04 64 Bit on my Lenovo Y570. System works well but Lubuntu's asking my password when I want to shutdown or restart the computer.
How can i fix it?
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What Password do you Use When you're Installing Software on a Virtual Machine running 13.04?
I am using Windows 8 and through virtualbox I am running 13.04 and it would be just great if I could actually use it for what I wanted it: installing and running GNU Octave. I can't seem to because ...
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How can I determine the sudo password? I'm currently using Ubuntu 13.04
What is the default password of the sudo? I visit some forums, it tells that the default password is password, but it doesn't work, how can I determine the password?
