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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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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 lock yourself out of the primary account temporarily?
I'm looking for something like LeechBlock, or StayFocusd on steroids, i.e. something that could block my Internet access temporarily, but do it in a way that would be a major hassle to disable, unlike ...
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Can not create a new user in ubuntu 11.10
I can't create a new user and can't log in as guest user.When i tried to create a new user a dialogue box and it says..Failed to create user.. running '/usr/sbin/adduser' failed: /usr/sbin/adduser ...
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Restrict access from another user to the NTFS partition
It is possible somehow restrict access to a partition to a specific user in Ubuntu? I am using Ubuntu x64 11.10, I made 2 accounts, both accounts belong to the Administrators group. And I have 3 ...
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How to select which account is logged in at system startup, or none?
I'm helping out some friends with a tiny hospitality business where one desktop computer has some files used by the business in one account "hotel" but it's mostly used by guests for browsing the web ...
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Keyboard shortcut to switch user accounts
I want to quickly switch user accounts with a shortcut combination, something similar how a session can be ended by Ctrl + Alt + Del or locking the screen by Ctrl + Alt + L ?
(I'm using Unity, 11.10)
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Trouble authenticating and with groups. Phantom duplicate user account?
I'm sometimes having trouble authenticating and it seems I'm no longer a member of the 'admin' group. Or I am.... but I have two user accounts with the same name and only one of them is... or ...
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Can I have a single login for multiple machines?
I've got three identical machines for my 3 kids, running Narwhal, but I'd like to replicate the user accounts across all 3 so anyone can login on any machine without me having to create all accounts ...
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Why is there a new Group for me as a User?
Why is it that when I install Ubuntu with a user name, a new group is created with that name too?
Is there a reason we're not just plain Administrators?
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Disable all user accounts?
I'm not sure all accounts are disabled on my computer, including samba-guest, and I need to disable all accounts except the one I'm using. How can I disable them all?
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Synchronising samba and unix user accounts
Is there an easy way to have a samba user automatically created whenever a unix user is created? Currently I'm using LDAP. But it is not that easy, and also very difficult to setup. I'm looking for a ...
