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Feb
2
comment No password set but still asks for a password
Edit /etc/shadow and MAKE SURE you read the SHADOW(5) man page first.
Dec
27
comment Prevent Standard users from seeing and mounting drives
Notice that last X on there? chmod anything as a 1 and that sets executable. You want 4 or 0 for readonly or no access. Remember this goes back to binary: RWX 000 = none; 001 = execute only; 100 = dec 4, readonly; Just remember that.
Dec
21
comment Prevent Standard users from seeing and mounting drives
ls -la, see if the change took properly, mount shouldn't have any types of odd background or font color if it did.
Oct
21
comment Static on desktop
Check "Additional Drivers".
Oct
21
comment How to view all mounted devices and respective free space
While there may be one, you're defeating the very purpose of using Linux/Unix. If you want it to be like Windows then why bother with Ubuntu? There's a lot of power in BASH, take the time to learn it and it will pay off immensely.
Oct
21
comment Ubuntu 11.10 crashes on boot shows busybox
Did you upgrade your computer? Is this a fresh install? What are the last things that you installed? Have you made any changes recently? We'd need more details to tell you what the real problem is. The best I can figure from this is that you've managed to delete a key system file and it's booting to recovery mode.
Oct
21
comment How to change to default english language?
help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf That's more specific for Ubuntu, but the jest is that you can either do that or add the lines in the first link to your .profile file. add: export LANG=en
Oct
21
comment script to swap two files
Shell scripting is a huge part of unix systems. You learn far more by learning to write scripts than those types of solutions. Shell scripting and Perl are the two things you should really be required to learn if you're serious about unix. tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html