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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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Ubuntu sudo not working
I wanted to move a file to a /usr/python2.7/ but i was unable to do so, so i changed the permissions of /usr to myuser:
sudo chown -R ***** /usr
it worked but i realised it was a blunder when sudo ...
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disabling root permissions
From Linux From Scratch build a minimal system for running my application. but struck on disabling root permission.
Need my minimal lfs as ubuntu.
when ubuntu boots login-screen displays when we ...
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Cannot rm or chown /var/log/snort as root
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 Gnome.
I installed an older version of Snort, uninstalled it and tried to install the latest version as root using sudo. However, the install crashed because root does not ...
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How to have root access without logging as root? [duplicate]
I am using 13.04 trying to edit or drag and drop files but since all the folders are owned by root and assigned to the group "root" I am not allow to do this.
I added my current username to the ...
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Why does file owner and group keep changing to root?
I am running an install of CakePHP on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
The way certain files are accessed I need permissions set a certain way within my install of Ubuntu. Nothing out of the ordinary.
The problem ...
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Cannot update .ICEauthority, do not have permission to remove/change, cannot resolve host!
I've seen this question asked many times before, and tried every single solution I found, yet none of them solved this problem. All my programming/computing knowledge comes from copying the solutions ...
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Shared library not loading. Loading only under root
I have an executable that requires a shared library that resides in /opt/... folder. I have included the path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH under /etc/environment and updated it using source /etc/environment. ...
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~/.profile OR ~/.bashrc OR ~/.pam_environment
Please which one of these should I edit to give me required result of the path to my programs both in normal user and as root. I have added in normal user and as root but there is error as quoted ...
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How can I change the owner of a folder? [duplicate]
I am an emigrant from Windows but I am having a serious problem which is changing the Root permission.
I tried to changed the owner by doing right click and change the permission but it's not ...
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What to do after 'chmod -R 777 /'? [duplicate]
I have many file permission problems, as being a newbie, I unfortunately set permissions on everything somehow to 777 (chmod -R 777 /). I believe I've done this from the root directory logged in as ...
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How can I get root-like permissions so I can download stuff from the software center?
When downloading an application from the terminal it said I couldn't download it because I wasn't root, and when I got to search for the specific software in the Ubuntu software center it doesn't even ...
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How can I execute scripts as root without pointing to its location?
I tend to use sudo arp-scan --localnet --interface wlan0 a lot, but I find it cumbersome to type this each time. To speed things up, I've created a script, called arp-lw-scan, which should do this for ...
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Delete a file without having permission
Can you delete a file in linux without having nor permission or root access?
Thank you.
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How to change owner and permissions of a folder in desktop
The problem is that the folder directory is /home/marek/Desktop/Tekkitserver/3.1.1 and root has all but 5 file ownership and permissions what are inside it.
It all happened after I launched tekkit ...
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How can i recover sudo permission?
I am new to Ubuntu.
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a fujitsu amilo 1536 notebook, and it works just fine.
To extract a tar archive I need root privileges but I can't get them. I can't use sudo ...
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how do i stop root from running a program
I would like to prevent my root user from running certain applications that can change the permissions of files which in turn prevents normal users from running those applications again.
for example, ...
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12.04 LTS won't boot after modifying root directory permissions
I accidentally changed permissions to root directory on my system and now my system won't boot, I tried to fix packages from grub recovery and check file system but nothing.
Here's the code I ...
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Home folder in `root` and not in `home`… I'm confused!
I have an issue with my home folder and this are giving me some permission problems.
I've installed an application that tells me that I have no permission to save in /home/username/Desktop, but in ...
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I Can't access the root folder
I do not have access to my root folder: Ubuntu says I do not have the necessary permissions to access it. I also cannot access lost + found, which gives me the same error message
Is there anyone here ...
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How do I delete files on the “ubuntu” live user from root?
I am running Ubuntu builder and I have everything set up the way I like, however I can't seem to clean up after changing anything. I can't get access to the /home/ubuntu folder because the "home" ...
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Run a (single) program as root
I have been given a tool that uses a closed source library to operate the hardware watchdog timer on my "PC". The library insists on being run as root.
I have tried modifying the sudoers file to ...
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Wireshark - allow non-root user to sniff USB traffic
I'm trying to capture data transferred across a USB connection to reverse-engineer the protocol used. I'm using wireshark to do this, which explicitly warns against running as root. So far, I've ...
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Why can root still edit files with a permission of 0?
I just wanted to delete most files from an external HD except some certain ones. So I chmod these ones to 0 and did a sudo rm -r ./*. Painfully, the result was that everything got deleted.
Why is ...
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Cannot use sudo command, changed permission of /usr folder [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get back SUDO into working condition?
Here's how I messed up my ubuntu, I wanted to change file permissions of /usr folder and I did that by taking root privilege
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rsync problems and security concerns
Hi I am attempting to use rsync to copy files between two linux servers. both on 10.04.4
I have set up the ssh and a script running under a cron job. this is the message i get back from the cron ...
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authentication problem at Ubuntu 12.04
I get this error when I try to authenticate using Gnome GUI. I have NO authentication problem when I use terminal. It is suggested here that I need to do
sudo chown -R myusername:myusername ...
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Configuring permissions with Bastille
I was using Bastille to improve the security of my OS. To set this software properly, it ask you several questions related to security rules and you respond it (Y-N). I'm stuck at this question that I ...
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I just recursively chmod'd everything under / to 750. Any tips?
I won't be the first and I won't be the last, I suppose. While playing around with the find command, I made a whoops and it would appear that instead of changing the permissions of the ~/web directory ...
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“You are not the owner…” message when trying to access folder
In the properties menu of this folder the permission is set to "root" user and group, it shows the message "you are not the owner, so you cannot change these permissions."
I am indeed the owner and ...
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How to fix sudo after “chmod -R 777 /usr/bin”?
I enetered chmod -R 777 /usr/bin and now sudo is not working.
It is giving error that sudo must be setuid root.
On looking via Google, some advice said to run chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo
chmod ...
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sshfs permissions problem — need to be root to view some files [closed]
I'm automounting sshfs shares using a script in /etc/network/if-up.d/ and entries in /etc/fstab. I have keys set up for my user so no password is required.
My user (1000) has sudo rights on the ...
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I know my root password, so where do i type it to open this file?
I have my root password, and just installed a keylogger for myself and after losing a long chunk of text i worked really hard on to a program crash. The keylogger installed just fine, using my root ...
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Is it possible to change a program's privileges while running?
Is it possible to start a program normally, and then later give it root or some other level of permission without restarting it?
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Why can't i paste anything under the /usr/ folder?
I just wanted to install a theme for the start up screen and I have to copy some files over here to /usr/share/kde4/apps/ksplash/Themes/.
But the answer i get is: Access denied. Could not write to ...
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How to change the permission of my internal cd/dvd drive?
I decided to build my own gui (ubuntu server, openbox and stuff).
I am having a permissions problem with my cd drive. When I try to mount it with user privileges it tells me that I'm not allowed.
I ...
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How to run program with non-root user? [closed]
linux force me to run Netbeans by root permission and I don't know why.
I installed it again,but it has got this problem too.
I try to change owner of jvm and netbeans to my user,but the problem ...
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Need owner permissions for root folder
Actually i'm trying to copy some business purpose files into root folder but it's not allowing to access the root folder. When i'm trying to change the permissions of the folder, its showing that you ...
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Have put me out of admin
Installed a new user and then tried to create one with the name root, because sudo
nerves. Didnot work and i have learnt in the meantime, this is not possible.
I am now unable to login into user ...
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How do I get permissions to edit system configuration files?
I can't seem to edit and save config files in the root system (eg: /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.config); it just says "permission denied" or the save option is blocked in the text editor.
I'm pretty sure I'm a ...
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How do I get root access to hard drive from livecd?
ubuntu 11.10 has faffed up on me, It wont let me get passed the login-screen ( i have been searching around online the last two days and none of the proposed solutions worked) as at this point I dont ...
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Run apt-get without sudo
This might be a very naive question, but I wanted to know how I could give multiple users access to a single computer without making them root users. How would I give them limitted sudo access such ...
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How to become administrator again [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add myself back as a sudo user?
Well I was messing around with the user accounts and I noticed that my account was listed under "administrator".
I knew that ...
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Run jnlp applications with root permissions
There is an application called KeyToolIUI, a java application that works with certificates, I want to give to it the root permission to be able to edit cacerts, when I am trying to run it from ...
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Backup partitions belong to root, how do I fix it?
I've did a clean install of Ubuntu on my Notebook. I created 3 partitions, swap, the ubuntu partition, and a backup or files partition (located in /media/Backup).
The thing that I don't understand is ...
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Add user that can read / write a root, www-data files
How can I do that?
I got user amira on my Ubuntu 11.4, I want him to able to see / read / write a root user files such as /etc/* and apache files
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How do I mount a drive so that it is readable by me?
I'm working with over SSH with an external hard drive connected by USB.
I know I can manually mount a drive with the following command:
sudo mount /dev/sdc ~/dirToMountTo
The problem is, if I ...
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How do I edit a file / launch an app without having to worry about “permission denied” messages?
When I need to edit a file (e.g. the httpd.conf file or the php.ini file) I start a terminal and open it with:
sudo vim /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Most of the times, in order to be able to edit the ...
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Change owner of internal hard drive partition from root to user
I have a number of drives internal and external. Some are partitioned. Most mount automatically at boot (all did at one point).
One partition is owned by root and therefore does not mount ...
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How can I become the owner of a file/folder that root owns?
I had a bad habit of storing my wallpapers in /usr/share/backgrounds, and decided to move them all into Pictures. Well, the problem is that most of them are now read-only since they are owned by root. ...
