Questions tagged [accounts]
Questions that relate to an area (or home directory), in which a user can store files pertaining exclusively to that user's activities, which is protected from access by other users. Related questions includes public profile issues, authentication to system services and the ability to be granted authorization to access accounts.
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How do I disable remote SSH login as root from a server?
For security purposes my company wants me to not allow anyone to be able to log into our Ubuntu server as root remotely over SSH. We still want the root account to exist, we just do not want it to be ...
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How to add a guest account without a password?
Sometimes I have friends in my house that want use my computer. How can they use a guest account without typing a password?
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Why there are many guest accounts on my system?
After I saw this answer, I realized that there are many guest accounts on my system:
grep guest /etc/passwd
guest-jzXeRx:x:117:127:Guest,,,:/tmp/guest-jzXeRx:/bin/false
guest-l5dAPU:x:118:128:Guest,,,...
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Why should we expire a locked account to totally prevent access?
From man usermod:
Note: if you wish to lock the account (not only access with a
password), you should also set the EXPIRE_DATE to 1.
Why should we expire a locked account to totally ...
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How to change administrator username?
I have accidentally typed my name wrong when I created the administrator account. Although I managed to change the user name at the login screen, I am unable to rename the /home/oldusername to /home/...
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Give permission to user ONLY to install applications
I've been using linux for 6 years, but only now I had the task of creating 2 accounts into one PC. Those 2 accounts are Admin(Mine) and User(My Mother's), the problem is, when she tried to install an ...
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How to turn off the automatic lock?
I want Ubuntu to ask for my password when I log in but not lock me every time I am away for 5 minutes.
How can I disable the automatic lock?
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How to add an account to StackApplet?
I have recently installed StackApplet and I want to add my account to it. However, I can't do so as I am unable to select a site properly. See this screenshot:
When I press on the option Site ...
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usermod says account doesn't exist but adduser says it does
I run the command
usermod -a -G dialout amashreghi
but I get amashreghi doesn't exists, however, when I try to add the user using adduser
adduser amashreghi
It says that amashreghi already ...
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Should I keep the OEM's default account?
Since a few days I've a new laptop running Ubuntu Linux. During the installation I had to create my own user account. After rebooting, I saw, that the manufacture created a second user called oem (...
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How to make folder writable to 2 users in different groups?
I have a folder (/var/www/test7.com), which must be readable/writable by www-data AND test7 users.
test7 user should not have access to other websites.
How can I do that?
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How to remotely lock out users from logging in temporarily
I'm not sure how to word this. I would like to be able to, remotely, lock down my kids' access either for an amount of time, or have lock/unlock control. Basically, I want to lock out an account ...
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Ubuntu 18.4 : How to choose the sudo-account to use on "Authentication Required"?
When we need admin rights to do some stuff on Ubuntu 18.04, we are prompted with an Authentication Required window, asking for a sudo-account's password.
My problem is that it seems we can't choose ...
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Security practice regarding users [closed]
Please understand that I've migrated to a Ubuntu Desktop from Win7 some months ago and while I have been reading about sudoers and Linux in general my understanding is still limited.
This is how I ...
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How can I run a program (wine) as a distinct user by shortcut?
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to run wine under a different account for security reasons. I also want to access it from different accounts. So I made an account called wine and now I want a way ...
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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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How to remove hacked account on Ubuntu server
My server has 2 accounts are hacked and now if I try to removed them by any way, after that 1 min, they will be re-added automatically with the highest permission in
visudo NOPASSWORD=ALL
So how ...
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Online accounts in 12.10 Facebook not working [closed]
I've added my Google, Twitter, and Windows Live accounts without any issues.
However, when I try to add a Facebook account, instead of opening in the system dialogue for online accounts, it opens up ...
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AccountService and UID < 1000
currently I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and have set my User UID to 501 (interop with Mac).
However even after setting login.defs:
UID_MIN 500
UID_MAX 60000
# System ...
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How can I regain admin privileges?
I'm very new to Linux so I don't understand a lot of the terms you guys use. I need a basic answer on why I keep getting admin group does not exist. I accidentally changed my initial account from ...
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Online Accounts on 16.10 - only few options
I recently installed Ubuntu 16.10 on my desktop and for whatever reason the options offered for adding accounts from the Online Accounts section of the System Settings are kind of sparse.
Here's what ...
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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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Multiple Google Drive Accounts (grive)
I have installed grive for my Google Drive integration in Ubuntu 12.04, Can I to add multiple google accounts with multiple grive instances? I'm doing something similar with Dropbox then I would think ...
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How do I manage multiple ubuntuone accounts? [duplicate]
I have 2 ubuntuone accounts. I am logged it to the first I created, and my ubuntu natty pc folders are synced with that account.
I want to switch my ubuntu pc to the second account, but I can't find ...
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Kubuntu 18.04 LTS - Account Details unavailable
I just installed Kubuntu 18.04 LTS, fresh install, EFI boot, manual partitioning (nothing strange: a EFI boot partition, a root(/) partition and a home (/home) partition).
The system installs ...
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I get automatically logged out instantly after logging in
In ubuntu terminal whenever I try to log in it instantly logs me out. On one account it just logs me out for no reason and on all other accounts it says
Could not chdir to home directory /home/tom: ...
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Will I loose my data from windows if I import my account to Ubuntu 12.04
I'm installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and right now it's importing my only account from Windows 7.
I'm wondering: Is it just copying and pasting my account, or is it removing my account from Windows ...
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Disconnect user accounts from OS?
Let's say I have a server with Ubuntu and 10-15 user accounts on it.
After some time the server crashes with whatever reason. Of course, you could look at the back-up and reset it to the time before ...
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Disable editing account info
I have a public desktop running ubuntu 14.04 with a public account (no guest account). People can change the full name of the user through the user accounts GUI. Is there any way to block this?
I ...
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Set user SystemAccount to false
I have the same problem listed here.
But when I change the SystemAccount property to false and reboot, it is set back to true.
Even if I only logout the property is set back to true.
I also tried ...
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Can not connect online accounts - options are greyed out
I'm trying to connect my Google and Microsoft accounts but seems like the function is deactivated. Clicking the three dots didn't work.
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How to restrict a user account to a specific time period [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I restrict my kids' computing time?
I'm using 12.04 and would like to make one user account open for use 24/7 and one account only available from 8:00am to 12:00am ...
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How can I remove the previous owner Adm account. So I can make changes to my P.C. Brought it from a pawn shop
Need to remove User. I bought this P.C from a pawn shop , and, it still had a Adm, user account attached. Therefore I can't make any changes to the P.C. Was hoping that you all could help me with that?...
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS user accounts log-in - How? [closed]
I installed Ubuntu on a Lenovo Ideapad B590, i3-2328M @ 2.20, 6GB RAM, Samsung EVO 250GB SSD and replaced Windows with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64-bit).
My questions are:
How do I go about creating a log-...
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Make account delete itself on poweroff
I need a way to create an account that will delete itself when the system does a full poweroff, but not on a reboot or logout. It also needs to have a unique account name (not guest) and password.
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unnecessary accounts in ubuntu
It is recommended in hardening process that remove unnecessary accounts.
What security problem exist with unnecessary user account?
Are there recommended user accounts that should be removed?
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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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Problem on mounting partitions after create new account
I created a new account(administrator) and delete the first account .
In this new account , The partitions are access denied . Some error like these are occur : "You are not owner" "You don't have ...
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How can I ensure that the theme and apps that I have installed on the admin account have transferred across to the secondary guest account?
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
I have setup an admin account and customised the theme to appear to be like Mac OS Mojave. Using GNOME Shell, Mojave CT Icons and also Plank to add a dock at the bottom ...
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Change the name of my main account - how can I do that?
I had somebody to reinstall my computer and he gave a name to my main account that does not please me. I want to change it. How could I possibly do that?
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User Account Types, Account security
I new to the world of GNU/Linux account management. I have been told to set up a system for account security would someone please be able to set me on the right track?
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Telegram phone number change
The instructions to change a phone number in Telegram messenger are not applicable to the Ubuntu phone.
I am not able to change my number in the settings menu.
Any ideas of how to change it?
Thanks!...
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Importing Sylpheed accounts to new computer
I was using Sylpheed on my old computer with Kubuntu 12.04 LTS
I have just installed Sylpheed on my new computer with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Is there a way of transferring / importing my email account ...
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Some way to block access to certain directories for tech support?
I'm about to ship my laptop to tech support and I started thinking, I don't want them going through my downloads or family photos, etc, however they require the administrator password. The problem ...
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Move data from others user accounts in my user account
I had problems with compiz setting and I make multiple accounts, now I want to transfer my information from all deleted users in my current account, some data I can not copy because I am not right to ...
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software on two accounts
On Ubuntu I have two accounts one for me and one for my sister. I downloaded a game off the Ubuntu Software Center but I can only play it when logged in to my account
(The one I download it on)
but ...
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Can't change account in Ubuntu One Control Center
My Ubuntu One Control Center on my computer uses one account. My Ubuntu One app on my android phone uses a different one. I want to change my account on my computer to the one that my phone uses but I ...
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how to create a guest account without disk encryption password prompted
I'd like to let people use my computer sometime without entering into my session
that's usually achieve with guest account, for example using sudo useradd guest and sudo passwd -d guest
but my ...
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Is there better way for acct logrotaton or an alternative to the tool itself?
Hello I have a similar problem as discussed in /var/log/account/pacct is getting too big, where is ckpacct (to cicle/gzip it)?
While the problem exists it would be preferable to compress the logs ...
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Slurm new user on Ubuntu 18.04
I am a very new user of Ubuntu (escaped from Windows recently) and yesterday when I was turning on my PC I found new user listed in login options with a nickname "Slurm" (I am the only user with a ...
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