Root is the superuser of Ubuntu. Questions about the / or /root folder are better suited for the "filesystem" tag.
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'root' user does not exist?
When I run the su command, the terminal returns: user 'su' does not exist.How do I add the root user? Can anyone answer this? I tried sudo adduser su, but after this, I get the same problem.
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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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When prompted what does Administrative Password refer to?
When prompted for an administrative password, what exactly does that mean?
I'm trying to run a few programs but they are asking for my adminstrative password, but I have no clue what that means.
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I need a root password to access my drives, how to install 13.04?
My PC crashed a week ago and by using Multi Bios I found I could "Try Or Install Ubuntu". I have never used this before and every time I try to access my drives it says I need a root password or I ...
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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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Nemo, open as root, Ubuntu 13.04
I replaced nautilus with nemo in Ubuntu 13.04 from these excellent instructions:
How to completely remove Unity, and replace it with Cinnamon?
However, I can't "open folder as root" from Nemo. Know ...
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Log into root directly [duplicate]
Quite a while back i'd worked briefly on Red Hat, and it had this option of booting into root directly, and not using the su command to change your access. I know that by default the root account is ...
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cant change root password in ubuntu
I am trying to change root password in my Ubuntu system but I am getting an error. I disabled password prompt when calling sudo. So I can execute root commands (eg. sudo apt-get install) without ...
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Shutdown option is not working in Ubuntu 11.10
I done my below option in my netbook Acer Aspire One D260 netbook version.
I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu version from 11.10 to 12.04. Unfortunately it was stopped due to my internet disconnect.
I ...
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Difficult Problem - I'll Try To Explain [duplicate]
OK, so my husband and I have had Ubuntu 13.04 I believe for about a week now, or whenever they released it. Yesterday, turn on the computer and his "user" and everything with it, was gone. Mine, still ...
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In the recovery menu, how do i Enable Networking and then go into the root shell prompt?
Whenever i click on "Enable Networking" it just seems to open me up to a permanent command prompt, not letting me go through any of the Recovery Menu options. I'm pretty sure it's a simple solution, ...
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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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sudo su fails with 'Unable to change to sudoers gid :operation not permitted.' fault
I have installed ubuntu and now I want to install flex. It asks for password but when I type my password, it asks me the password for root.
When I enter the password which I had specified during ...
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Make an application require root permission
How do I force an application to always require root permission?
For example, if I run nautilus, it should tell me permission denied and have me run it as root.
Is there a way to do this in Ubuntu? ...
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how to find out root password [duplicate]
I just installed ubuntu desktop 13.04
I need the root access and need to know the root password
During installation, I left it blank.
How can find out my root password ?
Thanks.
somner
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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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How do I change permission back to where it was?
I did a sudo chmod a+rwx /usr/local/java. After listing the ls -la, the (.) permission when from drwxr-xr-x to drwxrwxrwx. How do I change it back?
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Accidentally deleted all users and forgotten root password. How can I use my computer again? [duplicate]
I wanted to delete just one user, but the window didn't react to my mouse so I clicked the button again. Now there's no user left, and I forgot the password for root (when I select 'root' from the ...
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Why is gksu no longer installed by default in 13.04?
I have always recommended pressing ALT+F2 and typing for example gksu nautilus or gksudo nautilus both are equivalent; to run graphical programs with root privileges. However, I have just installed ...
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Folders missing in Home using Nautilus-root
So I'm trying to use Nautilus-root to move stuff around, specifically moving tarballs to /usr/local/src to make them. But when I run Nautilus root, either by making an Applications shortcut by using ...
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Mounting samba share with root priveleges 12.10
How to permanently mount samba share with root priveleges? I've used this FAQ but still getting the same error.
The point is i don't want to send credentials in plane text.
User credentials file:
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login as root: why “locked” account [duplicate]
at this page I can read that
By default, the Root account password is locked in Ubuntu. This means
that you cannot login as Root directly or use the su command to become
the Root user.
how ...
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How to enable or disabled a user?
I'm uing ubuntu 12.04 desktop. I have 3 users: user1(administrator), user2(standard) and guest. I wanted to disable user1 and enable user2 which auto logs on with no password but after I did that I ...
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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 to set password for administrator account created without password? [duplicate]
I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 and so far I didn't have problems with it. Until I decided to make a stupid mistake of messing with the Compiz settings and making the GUI disappear. I made some ...
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How to recover root user [duplicate]
I have accidentally changed the root user from administrator type to basic type in the user account page, and now i have no whatever root previligaes on the system, how i can switch back to ...
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having problem mounting a Windows partition in Ubuntu, when Windows is hibernated
I'm totally a new user of Ubuntu 12.10.
I have installed it recently and when I tried opening on of my drive it shows an error something like can't mount drive.
And please tell me directly what to ...
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Prevent that TrueCrypt gets Administrator rights
If I try to open a TrueCrypt drive, TrueCrypt asks me for my administrator-password (also when I am a normal user).
I know, that i can prevent this password-asking by editing the sudoers file = giving ...
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Lost root access possibility /sbin/nologin
I accidentally edited the file /etc/passwd on my server in the following way:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/sbin/nologin
Now I can not login as root. When I enter the su command, Cannot execute ...
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whats the default sudo timeout?
sudo -i in the terminal will made normal user into root user & after changing into root user if we exit then again we will be back to normal user.If we try again , next time it directly takes me ...
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How do I disinfect Ubuntu that is running a virus?
My 12.04 system has just been infected with a virus and it is self-replicating a load of rubbish directories in the /proc/ area.
This may crash my computer completely soon. I cannot delete any of ...
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Locked out of administrator account and do not remember root password (password was manually set for root) [duplicate]
I was writing a script to help force myself to go to bed. It had two parts, first, it would lock my account at 11PM using crontab. Then, I added a unlock if statement that was supposed to unlock the ...
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Root partition oddly full
The root partition of my 12.10 Kubuntu distro is full and I don't really understand why, since fileflight shows that 72% of the disk space usage of my root partition is being used by the "home/"My ...
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pasting content in root should ask for password in nautilus
I am aware the following actions can be done when I open nautilus as root, but is there a way to get nautilus to prompt for admin password when copying items(files, folders) into root folders from the ...
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No effective root
I wanted to login as a user, but when I typed in login usr (usr is just a placeholder for the user name) the system returned:
login: Cannot possibly work without effective root.
How can I fix ...
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Why am I suddenly not a sudoer anymore? [duplicate]
I booted up Ubuntu 12.10 today, and when trying to sudo, I entered my password as usual but it had said I'm not a sudoer. So I go and check my account under User Accounts, and for some reason Im now a ...
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what does mean // directory?
i was working in my terminal, and than i misspelled when cd to root /
accidentally i typed // and i got that in terminal as :
root@weblocalhost://#
when i type pwd, i get response // but when i ...
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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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Installing Ubuntu 12.10 with encrypted root and swap on the same encrypted partition
I fire up the installation and select something else.
I can make an encrypted partition, but then I can't break it into two parts to hold a swap and root. What am I doing wrong and how can I change ...
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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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can't access root user
I came home from work and restarted my server pc just for a bit of refreshment and it turned on me and did the opposite.
I'm running OPEN MEDIA VAULT, it's been very good to me, until now, I used to ...
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Admin to root privileges
I'm trying to put up a CS:S(srcds) server, but when I use the given instructions, the terminal says that I don't have the permission to change it.
My account is an admin account right now. Can I give ...
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how to set up root account on a new install?
I just installed ubuntu on my netbook and am loving it!!
What I’m now trying to do is set up my root account.
I tried to run the following command at a command prompt:
su root
and use the ...
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I have a problem with root password [duplicate]
I set my user account to auto login by mistake, so the key ring keeps popping up, but that's not the real problem, My root password seems not to be my user password
I can't install apps from the ...
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How can I run SSH as a different user on the same Ubuntu installation?
I am creating a script which runs a series of command that would download a website to a machine and sets up everything.
So most of the commands require root access. For example adding a vhost in ...
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How can I find out the ROOT password?
I installed Kubuntu 12.04 on this desktop last September and am the main user of the machine. I can perform most admin tasks such as installing new software with my password, which is also accepted ...
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Only root has sound
I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 on a Dell XPS 17.
For some reason, sound works for only for the root user. Alsamixer, Audacious, and Phonon all work from root but not as a normal user. Moreover, Phonon is ...
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Why are FAT partitions not automounted?
I see this happen in Ubuntu 12.04. When I plug an SD card which contains boot and rootfs partitions, only the rootfs gets automounted but not the boot. The only difference between these two is that ...
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How do I know my system is broken after chown -R root usr/bin?
This question is related to another question -- "Can't access any functions after chown command." -- but I think it may be worthy of an independent question. My question is: how do I know that my ...
