For questions related to users, user accounts, user permissions or guest accounts.
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List all human users
How can I list all human users that I've created? I've tried cat /etc/passwd and it just lists a lot of stuff.
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fstab. allow 2 users mount NTFS with passwd. Deny other users. possible?
i've seen this answer, but it requires the partition to always be mounted (and do the user access via group perms on the root FS that mounted the NTFS)
What i'm hopping to be possible, is to allow ...
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How to give a new user permissions to call sudo without a prompt for sudo password?
I am setting up a server in Amazon EC2. I created an image from Amazon's provided images of Ubuntu x64 12 LTS. My goal is to set up a secure svn server there, where access is only possible by IP ...
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How to change guest user icon
How the "Guest User" picture in Ubuntu 12.04 can be changed?
The user picture appear, for example, in the user menu.
This image is seen in every user's menu, so I guess it's just a matter of finding ...
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Don't know Ubuntu username and password
I installed my Ubuntu today and I logged out but now it asks for username and password which I never set up. Please help!
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What to do if I can no longer become the user root? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost administrative password?
How can I give admin permissions to my account?
I have no root password and I accidentally removed the sudo privileges ...
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Why are there two users with same name?
When I execute users command, it output two users with same name. Why are there two users? I'm pretty sure that I created just one user.
i.e
username@Computer:~$ users
gives following output
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Lost Permission of Home Directory
I recently messed up my Ubuntu Setup, so I re-installed and choose to use my existing Home directory .
Now I cannot launch Ubuntu-Tweak as myself, but am able to do so with sudo command.
Any help ...
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Properly modify home dir
I would like to know, whow to modify properly the homedir of a user.
I already know about this command
usermod -d /home/peter peter
But know, do I have to create the homedir befor?
And what will ...
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Bash - Get Sudoer Username?
Say I have the following bash script:
#!/bin/bash
echo $( whoami )
This is what it outputs with and without sudo:
alix@netbook:~$ ./test.sh
alix
alix@netbook:~$ sudo ./test.sh
root
The script ...
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Why does ps -elf list user number and not user name?
When I do this ps command:
sudo ps -elf | grep firefox
I see this output:
0 S 1002 20214 1 0 80 0 - 269240 poll_s 14:03 ? 00:00:24 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
0 S jeff 22671 ...
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How to give nopasswd access to multiple commands via sudoers?
Below is what I know:
I have to add this below line in sudoers file to give rights to the user for particular task.
%user_name% ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/apt-get install
In this case I want to give ...
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Give access to a specific user to a specific folder within a group? [Terminal]
I have created a file, admin, that I want to assign to a group, admingroup, and later on give a specific user, adminuser, exclusive access to that file but I have no idea how.
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Accounts lost during in-line upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 -> 11.10
I recently upgraded an Ubuntu box from 10.04 to 11.10. During the upgrade process, all of the accounts except the one I created on installation were lost, and had to be recovered. Subsequently, I ...
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How to NOT become a root user? Are administrators root?
I installed Ubuntu on my PC. To log in, I use the username and password I created during installation. Does this mean I am a root user? If yes, then how do I become non-root? It looks like non-root ...
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ubuntu server: login with new created user > get dollar shell
when I create a new user in Ubuntu Server and then try to login with the new user I get an error message.
In one case Ubuntu tells me that the home directory of the user doesn't exist when I login ...
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Unknown user 119 when I type ps
when I typed
ps -aux
i recived
(...)
root 2158 0.3 0.1 43860 6028 ? Sl Jan18 0:36 Passenger spawn server
119 2037 0.0 0.6 59152 26208 ? ...
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Logging in the New Created User Ubuntu12.04 lts
I just created an account with name rashmi and set its password. Then I restarted my system. When I log in to rashmi another screen appears for less than a second and then vanish and again the login ...
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How to create link to linux server
In these days I'm setting up a small network with about twenty computers. The users of this network used windows before and they need to access samba ubuntu folders simply using their name (which is ...
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How do I give www-data user to a folder in my home folder?
I have a folder: /home/myuser/folderA
I want to give www-data user write access to the above, while 'myuser' continues to have normal access (as it is myuser's home folder anyway).
Which commands do ...
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How can I have different X & sound configuration depending on which user logs in?
First off: I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and the NVIDIA X Server Settings GUI to configure.
I've recently gotten a new LED TV hooked up to my computer - the video card supports two displays. I would like ...
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Why my X Server won't start as a regular user and it starts as Guest?
It won't start X server automatically as a regular user but instead shows Logon screen. When I enter my password it flashes for a second and it's back to Logon screen again.
Then I tried to log in as ...
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Why can't I disable the Guest session?
I can't disable the Guest session for Ubuntu 12.04.
I tried to add allow-guest=false but it doesn't work.
Is there another way to disable it?
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How to reset configuration for Compiz for another user?
After modify something in cssm the display manager in MyPersonalAccount doesn't work.
So I login in my root account and it is fine but I want to reset the Compiz configuration of MyPersonalAccount to ...
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List and change other users access to folders
I am quite new with Linux and Ubuntu systems, but building a home server with Ubuntu.
I did have a server with Fedora previously, and manage to fix this issue; however I have forgotten how I did it... ...
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Locked out after using usermod
After trying to change my password with usermod -p <new password> <username>
( which seemed to work but didn't give any messages ) I found I could not log in using either my old or new ...
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How do I automatically create links to directories?
What is the easiest/quickest way to share files among different users?
I would like each user to have access to the same music and pictures directories. Creating symbolic links seems tedious as I ...
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Ubuntu “1 time password on login” solution [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is it bad to run as root?
I recently fully switched from Windows into Ubuntu. And of course I loved Ubuntu. But the most annoying thing is, system requires password ...
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Name of newly created user missing features in ubuntu 12.10 [closed]
Hi I am not very experienced with user management in ubuntu.
I needed to create a new user to manage my application server so following some instructions online, this is what i did:
I became root
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User's password can not be set with passwd
I am running Ubuntu as a server, but with X-windows setup. I have SSH , Samba and RAID 5 setup. Was having trouble browsing Samba shares from my Windows 7 laptop, so I thought it might be a problem ...
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How can I run anacron in user mode?
I would like to set up a scheduled task via anacron but I would like to do so in user mode. How can I achieve this?
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Can I have a user execute sudo commands without being an administrator? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add a user to the “sudo” group?
I recently became a UNIX admin for some relatives, and they are quite far up the creek on how to use ubuntu. I know that one key ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 change user uid with 'usermod -u 1393 karalb ' -> mount error
I must change my user uid from 1000 to 1393.
After do that mounting a usb drive i get the following error :
Unable to open folder for USB DISK
No application is registered as handling this file
How ...
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Hide user accounts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I hide a particular user from the LightDM login screen?
Is there away to hide specific user accounts from the login screen and the drop down menu on the desktop ...
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“Failed to create user” due to regular expression error
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 32 bit. Currently I have only a user, type administrator. I'd like to create another administrator user but I keep getting the following error:
Failed to create ...
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Delete user files on logout
I have to setup Linux Ubuntu PC, on which when user logout himself, all files on his account have to be deleted, so when next time he logs in, he will have environment like he is never been logged ...
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Assign Group rights to folder
Hello I am new with ubuntu and I have a question.
I created a user ABC. I created a group XYZ. I added user ABC to group XYZ .
I have a folder mounted mydrive. I mounted it under as I have attached ...
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Hide users from login screen on Kubuntu 12.10
This question is a 2 part question (I know there is already a question on GDM):
When I create a new user that person shows up on the login screen for Kubuntu 12.10 however I would like to hide that ...
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UNLOCKING MY ACCOUNT [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost administrative password?
I had a password for my user account.
Firstly I went to user accounts UNLOCKED it and chose the password to NONE and then ...
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Immediately after login, my 12.04 LTS desktop asks for my password for “Authentication is required to change user data”
I have two Ubuntu 12.04 systems, one a desktop, and the other running as a NIS/NFS server (a desktop with lightdm disabled). When I login, I get the dialog (not error) "Authentication is required to ...
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Preventing Users/Groups from accessing certain Domains
I have created a Study account which I use when doing anything school related work. It's purpose is to remove the distractions of my normal account, such as social media and news websites.
I know ...
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Permissions, don't even know how to resolve without reinstalling Ubuntu
Alright so what I've done, I installed Ubuntu, moved some files while in windows, this caused ubuntu to stop working. I reinstalled it the other day and now that I've set it all up how I wanted it ...
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Why does 'top' say that there are two users when I have only created one?
And how do I find out what the other user name is?
I tried cat /etc/passwd
but this gives me a long list of stuff which is basically unintelligible to me.
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I want one of my users to be able to 'sudo init 5' without being asked for a passwd. How to do it?
I want one of my users (let's call him: pn) to be able to start X by sudo init 5.I don't want to give him access to any other commands.
I read man sudoers, but I don't understand too much of it.
Can ...
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What's the difference between root account and simulated roots?
So if I disable my root account with sudo passwd -dl root I still have access to sudo {su,bash} or sudo -{s,i} conceptually how are the elavated rights different from the root account?
I know the ...
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Adding additional users to Ubuntu server and configuring Samba
I have installed Ubuntu Server 12.10 and during the install created a user for myself ben, I now wish to add a second user bill.
I have an external drive that I have mounted to /media/storage and ...
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Changing another user's wallpaper
Is there anyway to change the wallpaper of another user? I believe a missing wallpaper file is preventing me from logging in to an account, and need to be able to change it.
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How can I log into or out of a Lubuntu guest account?
I discovered I had a guest user account logged in when I tried to shut down and Lubuntu told me I couldn't. When I try to switch users from my administrator account to the guest account I am asked ...
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How can I find lost document created using Lubuntu guest account?
A friend used my old laptop to write an .rtf document. Lacking the administrator password, he used a guest account. Now I'm trying to get the document for him.
It seems that using a guest account ...
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User can't login to tty1 [closed]
Hope it's ok to ask questions about Linux mint 13 which is based on ubuntu 12.04. All of a sudden my system boots to tty1 prompt. even in tty prompt I am not able to login. But root can login.
Any ...
