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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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how do I install gpointing-device - I seem to have got my brain into a loop
I would like to install the gpointing-device-settings package which I found on the Launchpad website
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpointing-device-settings
I tried:
apt-get install ...
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How to edit GRUB file at /etc/default/
I was trying to edit GRUB file at /etc/default/ for fixing the brightness issue.
But I am unable to do that as there is no option to save GRUB file after edit. This may be due to some permission ...
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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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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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Authentication problem in File System Drive
I am not able to modify files in file System drive as its shows not authenticated .Kindly help me changing authentication process. I am using xUbuntu 12.04.
I tried to change file name in file system ...
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Unknown admin password
I wanted to make an new Admin profile and delete the old one (long story), but I forgot to set a password. Now I can only enter Guest session and the Administrator account is asking me about a ...
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How can I put a shortcut to nautilus with root privileges in the launcher (ubuntu 12.10)?
I don't want to open the terminal and type sudo nautilus every time I want to visually browse for files. Is there a way of fixing it to the launcher?
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Start vim automatically as root in home folder
Is it possible to start vim automatically with root permission if I start it in my home folder (or in a subdirectory of that folder)?
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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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Creating exact root user in ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
How can I create an user which will act same as root.
When I login, it should go to # shell instead of $.
There must be no need to apply sudo before any command.
When I connect through Graphical ssh ...
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Does following `man sudo root` permenantly blocks your sudo?
I needed to enable the root account for whatever reason and being offline I had no better advice than this manual man sudo root
"This is not recommended!
To enable the root account (i.e. set ...
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Why do I get “Authentication Failure”? [duplicate]
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10.
As i started the terminal and ran the command su which we usually use to perform root operations and to get the # symbol.
After running the command it asks me to ...
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How do I access the file system as a root or owner?
I need to add online store configuration files in file system var/www. but I can't access the file system, because it says that only owner can access it, the owner is root.
So, how can I access those ...
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UBUNTU 12.10 started from USB no access Harddisk [duplicate]
I am no specialist. I wanted to find out about linux this weekend, so i created a USB stick (8GB) as a booting device.
When i want to access my harddisk i get an error: Adding read ACL for uid 1000 to ...
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Why am I asked for the “password for root” when upgrading packages?
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04. I installed with one user account, then added a second user account using the GUI dialog box method, making myself an Administrator type.
I now use the second ...
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Ubuntu permissions to open files
My Macbook Pro hard drive is not working and I don't have a backup cd. I installed Ubuntu to see if I could access my files. I can see the folders but when I attempt to open them, I get a message that ...
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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 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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Unable to access second hdd. ubuntu 12.04
This is the error i get when trying to write to my second hard drive.
Error opening file '/media/hdd2/01 Queen - Keep Yourself Alive.mp3': Permission denied
The hdd is mounting on start up. but i ...
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sudo su command not working
Previous happenings here: Ubuntu is booting into terminal instead of GUI Interface
For some reason when I boot my computer up, instead of automatically entering into my normal interface, I have to ...
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Files copied to folder in var/www disappears on restart
I have a LAMP server setup. I have the source folder in my desktop which I can edit without 'sudo'ing. Then, I sync the files to var/www using sudo rsync. I gave the folders in var/www necessary ...
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When running `ll`, what does `root root` mean in an entry?
I'm curious what the meaning is for the two root entries on terminal when you enter the ll command. I know one is the user but not sure which one. What do both mean and in which order?
For example,
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alert when running applications from root
When I want to launch some applications from root user it alerts me that it may not be run as root and i need to log in as normal user. For example for Google Chrome or Glob database visualization. ...
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Sudo Non-Password access to /sys/power/state
On my computer, pm-hibernate appears to be broken, however using the command echo disk > /sys/power/state appears to work perfectly. Now I just need regular user access to it, using sudo. How do I ...
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Can you set up Banshee visualisations without root privileges?
You can add music visualisations to Banshee easily by installing some extra packages via apt.
Can you do it without root privileges?
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Can you give me a step by step guide to change folder ownership from root?
I am really new to ubuntu and I'm so confused, so please excuse my ignorance.
I have two drives on my computer an 80gig and 500gb. I have ubuntu installed on the 80gb drive but have all my media ...
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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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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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Changing permissions on a drive owned by root
Just installed 12.04, then formatted an external 2 Tb drive for use. My next step would usually been to have logged in as root, changed the permissions to my admin user, then logged back out. . . but ...
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Why few commands (eg: fdisk -l) do not inform user “you do not have privilege”?
Few commands that need to do sudo remind you that "You do not have the privilege" or "Are you root?" etc.
while a few commands do not give such message. For example, if you do fdisk -l instead of ...
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How do I wrest ownership from root or get administrator privileges?
I have been using Windows since Win 3.11 and have only been on Linux/Ubuntu for about three hours. I know things are done differently on Linux and I do not expect it to be as intuitive and ...
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Don't have permission to write / copy from my flash usb?
I have installed ubuntu 12.04.
So, i don't remember very well what i did to make my flash usb, unwritable.
Anyways it happened after i have installed gnome shell, and now i don't know how to ...
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External hard drive not allowing permission
My older mac recently kicked the bucket, and I decided to switch to linux on a newer laptop, My hard drive was fine, and I now use it as an external hard drive. The one problem though, is that I ...
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Update Manager is not appearing in main dash.
I am currently a user of Ubuntu 11.10 on a Dell N4030, however my update manager is not appearing in dash home. I would like to update it to 12.04, but whenever I am trying with other alternate ...
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Using GUI without root privelege
Total noob here, just loaded Ubuntu 12.04 for the first time yesterday. Loaded Cinnamon desktop also, to try out both it and Unity.
I downloaded an application SMathStudio.exe into my Home/Downloads ...
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How to copy file from downloads to filesystem/bin?
I am pretty new to Ubuntu 12.04. I have a problem using my datacard on it, so I got a program called Sakis 3G. This program is a file after downloading; it opens in gedit. I need to copy this file to ...
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Why the need for sudo when I have only one account on machine? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is it bad to run as root?
I am bit confused about the need for sudo when I have a single user account set up on my machine. At install time I tried to call the name ...
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Running a script with root privileges
I am trying to run a script as a root (without sudo).
Script is in /var/opt/scripts (already added to $PATH) which has the following rights
drwxrwx--T 2 pantelis pantelis 4096 Jul 16 16:51 ...
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Why does everything keep changing back to root ownership (NTFS)?
I've tried EVERYTHING to get my files back into my name, but all I seem to do is add MORE files to Root ownership every time I try to fix things.
It starts with getting my 2 ntfs partitions to ...
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How to mount external HDD with fat32 owner rights
When my external HDD mounts, it get mounted with root as owner. So I can only look read files. How do I get this to mount as me as owner?
It's frustrating. Why is it really necessary to have root as ...
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access denied when trying to open terminal on desktop
ok so heres the skinny. I just moved some file using the sudo su command so i can move them to bin folder in file system then after closing terminal tried to reopen from desktop and got permission ...
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Permission denied error for running command on ubuntu
cd ~/mosesdecoder/sample-models
~/mosesdecoder/bin/moses -f phrase-model/moses.ini < phrase-model/in > out
I’m having an issue running this on the command line it gives me a permission denied ...
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no sudo permissions to /etc/hostname
When I try to edit my /etc/hostname file, using sudo nano /etc/hostname (or any other editor) I get the following:
Error writing /etc/hostname: Permission denied
I then tried:
sudo chmod u+w ...
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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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Problem for Matlab Installation
I install the Matlab2009a to my computer successfully and when I try to activate it without using the internet (Activate manually without the Internet) and provide the path to license file. Then an ...
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Firefox deletes root protected files?
When Firefox starts, it creates two files in the user settings directory: places.sqlite-shm and places.sqlite-wal and deletes them upon exit.
Just for the experiment, I set the permissions of those ...
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Pasting libaacs.so.0 into vlc folder
I want to paste a codec "libaacs.so.0" into my "usr\lib\vlc" folder, but every time I do it, I always get "Permission Denied".
Please help
Thanks
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Run shell script from launcher with root permissions
I have a shell script that runs a GUI application on Ubuntu 12.04.
The way I'm currently running the application is that I open the terminal and go to the directory that contains that file, then do ...
