For questions related to users, user accounts, user permissions or guest accounts.
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Could not update ICEauthority file since upgrading
Since upgrading my laptop to Ubuntu 13.04, my login fails with the above message. I have tried:
sudo chown ls user:user /home/user
chmode 600 /home/user/.ICEauthority
What else can I try to fix ...
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Ubuntu two users logged with same name
I have a server and a ssh session, but it seems like I've pressed something and it was a shortcut so currently, when I do w it shows my other session (which I don't know how I opened). I closed my ssh ...
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howto set a user account a limited login time
I want to create a user with a limited login time. To be more clear, I want the user account to be able to login for specified time (ie. 1000 clocks), and then the account deactivates. I looked at ...
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Match directive breaks SSH
On my Ubunut server 12.04 LTS machine, I try to add a user with only sFTP or FTP access.
Let's call him 'Jim' for now. Jim only needs access to a directory /var/www/example.com.
So far I've tried ...
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change settings from guest account ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]
at first sorry, but my english is very bad.
I want to customize the settings from the guest account (Ubuntu 13.04).
I want to change the startpage in firefox and change the background from the ...
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How does user access for full disk encryption work?
When installing Ubuntu 12.10 and higher you get an option to encrypt the entire drive (not just the home directory). What encryption mechanism is used for this, and what kind of access permissions are ...
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Install Ubuntu without creating a user account
I'd like to sell an old computer of mine to a friend, and I'd like to pre-install Ubuntu. Is it possible to install the OS, but not set up a user account first? I'm expecting that it would ask the ...
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Who is “user 109”?
I found out that user 109 launches pulseaudio on startup, which blocks mine:
petr@sova:~$ ps -ef | grep pulseaudio
109 1515 1 1 15:23 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start ...
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Upgrade to 13.04, user picture shows up on lightdm. Can I change it?
So, I recently upgraded my Xubuntu to 13.04, and afterwards I noticed that there is now a picture of me on the lightdm login screen. I have no idea where this picture came from, I don't remember it ...
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'w' command not showing users list when not root ('who' does)
I have multiple users logged on my server (ubuntu 12.10), with ssh. None of them has root privileges.
If I then log in with my admin account and type (without sudoing)
admin1@server:~$ w
the ...
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Diff. Between Ubuntu vs Ubuntu Studio? [duplicate]
Can any one tell me the Diff. Between Ubuntu vs Ubuntu Studio ?
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How do I get an UNANSWERED question reopened? [closed]
I keep go round and round about this. There are questions marked as duplicate where there is NO link to the ORIGINAL question.
I am not lying! I am not stupid! I CAN read! Many times questions have ...
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kde profiles for home, work movie watching etc
Is there a way to configure different KDE config modes for different profiles?
when i am watching a movie i don't want to see a screen saver or lock screen, but when working at my PC i want to start a ...
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hide user from login GUI
If I add a user to hidden-users then they won't show from the GUI user login page?
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ cat /etc/lightdm/users.conf
#
# User accounts configuration
#
# NOTE: If you have ...
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Username Modification while Retaining Data Structure
I've tried this in the past with zero success. How do I change the /home/USER directory for a user, when I change their username, and how do I update their username without causing massive breakage?
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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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Leave application running as we switch users
How can I leave Deluge Bittorrent running as different family members log into and use our Ubuntu 12.04 laptop?
This seems like it should be some sort of daemon, but of course it has a GUI, which I'd ...
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How to change administrator password? [duplicate]
At the user accounts I set the Password in the (connection options ) at none
then when I tried to unlock the user accounts it ask for a password, when I type the old one it says its wrong.
I tried to ...
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Customization: Specific DE for specific User
Is it possible to setup?
Suppose, I have two users: Home and Work.
For Home I want to use GNOME Shell or KDE a beautiful DE. (Or something else)
For Work I want to use LXDE or MATE as fastest DE. ...
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added new user no shell/ tab completing
I added a new ubuntu user with this command
useradd -d /home/newname -m newname
It seems no tab completing feature and only $ as prompt, When I logged in as root I see root@server$ as prompt.
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Can I set my user account to have no password?
If I attempt to change my password to nothing by opening "User Accounts", the "Change" button remains greyed out:
How do I change my password to be empty? I know you can set Ubuntu to automatically ...
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How can I define which groups new users will be added to during the installation process?
How can I add all new users to a special group?
For example 'video' or 'www-data'.
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Mount bind with full ownership and permissions
I am using 12.10 on virtualbox. I have my windows documents folder shared through virtual box folder share. Then I wanted to use mount --bind to mount my documents folder to the ubuntu user documents ...
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Allowing non-root access to PTP Cameras [closed]
On an 11.04 system when I insert a PTP camera it lists but it doesn't allow access to it. I have to start the photo management application (be it Shotwell or any other) with root access to be able to ...
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How can I perform the su command to switch to a network user without a password?
I have a local user and a network user (authenticated over LDAP) that I frequently use su to switch to for certain tasks. I'm wondering how I can avoid typing the password for the network user every ...
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Unable to recover admin account ubuntu 11.10
i had accidentally deleted the admin account. i am using the system from standard how to recover the administrator account which i had deleted, please do favour me in resolving this isssue.
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How to add a new user in Ubuntu 12.04, and how i give them a root user privileges [duplicate]
How to add a new user in Ubuntu 12.04, and how i give them a root user
privileges
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Limited access accounts for a low maintenance deployment?
Forgive me if I haven't done quite as much digging trying to solve this on my own as I could have: I'm currently in Zambia, and my internet access is unpredictible and slow when it's working.
I'm ...
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Pre-configuring default GUI session for new user
As an Ubuntu 12.10 admin, can I configure the default GUI session (the one to run if no explicit choice is made at the login screen) for a user I create from the command line?
Example of choices:
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How to create a web browser only session [duplicate]
I was recently in a Virgin media shop and was interested to see that they had laptops running Ubuntu for customers to browse the web on. The setup itself was interesting and I'm wondering if anyone ...
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User called backup1… what is it for? how to know if it's not compromised?
I was checking my /etc/passwd, when I noticed a user called backup1. What attracted my attention is the number 1 at the end. Is it ok? how can I know if this user is compromised?
Im using ubuntu ...
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Basic server build for practicing and learning linux on
I am taking it upon myself to learn Linux,so here is what I want to accomplish; I want to set up a server primarily for practice. I don't need it to do anything specific accept allow me to login via ...
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Do not own my computer? [duplicate]
I was trying to install some plugins for my navigational program when I noticed I can't do changes to the file. And after a while I noticed that I'm not allowed to do any changes to the filesystem.
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How can I prevent users accessing anything but their own home directory?
How can I disable the users to go out from the home folder. For example, I have a NTFS partition mounted under /media/ntfs, so if the user logs in through ssh he can reach this partition. How can I ...
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Authentication failed with the correct password and now I cannot use sudo anymore
Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04 (first time on Ubuntu).
I have my normal "administrator", and another Guest account.
I was experimenting today with the user accounts, and set my "administrator" ...
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Vstfpd and many accounts creation: is there a howto?
I've been googling around and didn't find valuable answer.
I have 98 students. I want to create, for each student a directory where they can upload their own files.
Unless I'm wrong, it seems I'll ...
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What could cause an issue with the smoothness of my mouse?
I have installed Ubuntu on a new system (i5,8GB RAM). I am facing a problem with my mouse and scroll bars. I feel they are not smooth.
Any suggestion on how I can fix this?
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Change default desktop background for LDAP login
I am running and open-ldap server for centralised authentication, and Ubuntu 10.04 for the client side. I want to change the default background on Ubuntu client image, so that when a new user logs ...
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Why can a new user not write to external Hard Drive?
I installed Precise Pangolin using this guide. I created a user account for my wife and a guest account. I formatted and mounted an external hard drive to the server. I created several file shares ...
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Multiple Dropbox accounts on the same computer
Has anyone tried running multiple Dropbox accounts on one computer? What I would like is for every user to have their own Dropbox account/folder. On the Dropbox Help Center they write:
For our ...
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How to give Public_html to each user?
I have a new installation of Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to have 2 or more users be able to test with apache/php/mysql.
Within default config at sites-available I added two different VirtualHosts, one ...
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per user lxc containers
I am sure I saw how to do this on a webpage around the intergoogle somewhere.
But Is it possible to have your system setup so when you create a user on your machine they log into their own LXC ...
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How do I create a user on Ubuntu Touch for my Tablet? (Nexus 10)
Is there a way to create your own user account in Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 10 tablet?
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Is it possible to create disposable password for a user account
Some time I want to give access to my computer for my Guests. How can I create a disposable password to my user account so that they have no access to my account in the future, without my permission. ...
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run a command as user at boot time Ubuntu 12.04
I want to run a command at boot time that basically looks like this:
python /home/me/.hidden/commnd.py
Also, this needs to run as me, not root.
I know it can be done, but my google-fu is weak ...
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My user directoy has vanished
My user directory has vanished, instead a "lost+found" folder appears.
This has happened after giving more space to root partition.
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Can I change user in the Unity interface without having to type password when changing back?
First of all, let me emphasize that I am talking about my home computer that I use for personal use.
I have two accounts in Ubuntu: one for me, one for my wife. We don't use separate accounts to ...
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Is there a way to autostart a user session without logging in?
I am administering a hybrid server/workstation using Ubuntu 12.04. There are several users that have access to the PC, and it is also working as a simplified fileserver using samba. This fileserver is ...
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Recommendations for restoring accounts after replacing a disk drive?
Several of our development servers have flaky SSDs that need to be replaced. The machines are still usable, but we see lots of errors in dmesg, and every once in a while they need to be rebooted ...
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How to configure the locale to be different from the default locale for a user on Ubuntu Server?
On Ubuntu Server 12.04, how can I configure an account to use a locale other than the system default local? Say if I wanted Russian users to be able to use Russian in the terminal ... and Polish users ...
