Questions tagged [administrator]
The account type that Ubuntu users must be before they are allowed to elevate their permissions through "sudo".
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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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Can't unlock certain GUI system settings + unusual authentication notifications on login and power off
I am running a recent upgrade to 20.04LTS. I am not using the Ubuntu on Wayland session as it won't recognise my login; I'm therefore logging into the Ubuntu session.
Since the upgrade there are a ...
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gvfs admin:// in 17.10
Ubuntu 17.10, (x11), GNOME 3.26.2, Nautilus 3.26.0.
If I start Nautilus and display the address bar, and type this: admin:///usr I am asked to enter my password twice.
Why does it ask me twice?...
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Will the software interrupt with each other, if I install e.g.opencv locally, but administrator account already installed one?
I am planning to install opencv in the local account. But administrator already has one. Will the new one cover the old automatically? Will the configuration be changed in administrator account, even ...
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How to permanently save controller input settings on higan emulator?
How to permanently save controller input settings on higan? The controller of choice is a Xbox 360 controller, the settings are set and work just fine, until I close the higan emulator. When opening ...
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Command line tool file top: ftop?
On RH-epel there is an useful tool ftop to see file top, io and which files are used.
Are there an alternative tools in ubuntu??
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What could cause a "user not in passwd" error when using su, ssh connection refusal on a Ubuntu 20.04 Web Server?
Something happened on one of our server running Ubuntu 20.04 that caused a co-worker who was logged in via ssh at the time to get a "user not in passwd" error when they tried to use the su ...
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crontab not deleting files
I have crontab commands on Ubuntu 20.04, that looks like this :
* * * * * /usr/bin/find /backup-nfs/ -name "*.sql" -path "/backup-nfs/*.sql" -type f -mtime +1 -delete
* * * * * ...
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Active Directory with ubuntu compputer
How I open Ubuntu device by a user from active directory after joining this device to the active directory ?
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How to prevent user to edit system proxy in Ubuntu 18.04?
I want my users to use local proxy, but I set it with admin user and even I login as a user, he or she can edit or add new proxy or even turn it off. How can I restrict that, so may only admin will ...
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Admin user in Ubuntu 16.04, similar to OpenSUSE 42.x
I use openSUSE 42.x for my work, among other reasons the one I like most is its user management. I have one user on my machine say "User1" with "pass1". Whenever I need to run an application as sudo ...
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Change notification email subject - Nagios
Anyone can give an idea about, how can I change my Nagios email alert subject? I have google for sometime and every result says to change the command(notify-host-by-email) definition in commands.cfg ...
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Problem with Comodo Installation
After installing Comodo, though logged in as adminstrator, tried to run /opt/COMODO/post_setup.sh and it says
Please run this script with adminstrative priviledges
even though I am logged in as an ...
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I want to install skype but i have to authenticate first, the problem is that i do not know the password. Where can i find the required password?
I've just bought a new laptop (dell) and i have Ubuntu. I am trying to install some programs but if i want to install them i need authenticate and to write a "password for dell" but i don't know it. ...
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13.10 Active directory users are not administrator
In 12.04 I am able to login into Ubuntu with my windows domain user login and also I can have admin privileges to install softwares and apps.
But in 13.10 I am able to login, But I am not an ...
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Administrator option is disabled for domain accounts in Ubuntu 22.04
I am the domain admin. My domain account in my system have administrator option disabled. I have tried adding the user to sudoers. That didn't work. Any other way? When opening the software centre or ...
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Ubuntu is lagging after deleting gvfs and gvfs-admin
Every time I launch my PC it takes at least 10 minutes to login and launch application.
The problem started after I deleted two files called "gvfs" and "gvfs-admin". Now my PC has ...
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Encrypt SVN for users group
Could anyone advise how to encrypt SVN , Plan to encrypt or disable the SVN from asking if unencrypted passwords should be stored? We never want a user to be able to do that.
Is there possibility that ...
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I just purchased a used hp mini laptop with a newly installed Ubuntu 20.4 and I can't seem to be able to create a user admin account
HP mini laptop 210-1000 with newly installed ubuntu 20.4 and I'm trying to create a user admin account but it's asking for a password So any help would be really appreciated
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How do I execute a file as root using admin://
I have this executable: /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run which needs to run as root.
If I execute this with sudo /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run then it works fine.
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can't remove files from trash
I deleted some files from usr/shr (basically some themes)
and now i am not able to empty my trash
It is saying "You do not have sufficent permissions to delete the file".
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If I add a user to sudoers to be able to perform root functions
If I add a user to sudoers to be able to perform root functions, does it mean this user is the same as root?
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Need help to fix owner, groups and user permissions in Xubuntu 16.04.6
Some time ago I messed up my system users and groups permissions, now I can't run users-admin command, the output is : the owner of /home/vladimir/.config/ibus/bus is not vladimir!(the owner is root), ...
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Screen size for Root (super user)
I am currently using LTS 16.04 and recently having issues with screen size for root / superuser / admin. Neither the applications on the left edges nor top periphery are visible. Things looks zoomed ...
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unable to resolve host due to lost administrative password
I lost my admin password and changing it via root during start up does not make changes i'm guessing due to "unable to resolve host issue" and i can not change the host issue without the password. How ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 automatically logs out after admin change
I'm experiencing an issue where Ubuntu logs the user out immediately after logging in - there's a few moments of black screen following login and I'm returned back to the logon prompt, this is ...
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Accidentally deleted Python3 with Ubuntu. Now so many things dont work
I accidentally deleted
/usr/bin/python3.5
which had a link to python3. Now i copied python3.6 from
/usr/local/python3.6 into usr/bin/python3.6
and created a simlink to /usr/bin/python3.
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How to access recovery console without using grub?
So I just got a computer from work for free but it's a rather old iMac, probably from 2006, and it has Ubuntu on it. I have no clue how to use this software and the previous owner is unknown so I can'...
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Randomly getting logged out from admin session (Ubuntu)
I recently switched over from Windows to Ubuntu and I've been trying to learn some bash scripting. I came across the ctrl+alt+F2 command and, curious as we humans are, I clicked the combination ...
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how to run as administrator ubuntu 14.04 and not as guest?
today I installed ubuntu 14.04 and also a new user to the new operating sysytem.
there are several problems I am facing with it
they are:
1.I cant log in as administrator but as guest,can you help me ...
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Cannot login using my Administrator account after installing Ubuntu 13.10
I've upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 13.10. At the end of installation, a message showed that there are some softwares that can't be installed and they must be manually installed later.
When the ...
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HELP! need admin password or how to reset!
I recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my macbook. i tried to do an update but it asked for an admin password that i dont have and never created. so i tried changing it through recovery mode, the only ...
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gksu not working
gksu nautilius
Running the above or trying to run the nautlius script -'browse as root' gives the following error
/home/borax12/.gtkrc-2.0:6: error: scanner: unterminated string constant
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Why does Ubuntu keep asking me for another super user's password?
I have two users:
misha-local (the first user I created when installing Ubuntu)
misha (a user authenticated against an LDAP server)
I'm logged in as misha.
misha@misha-antec:~$ whoami
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How to ENABLE password for administrator account so I am prompted when I log in?
I am new with Ubuntu, and though I am liking it a lot I am making the typical mistakes (for what I have seen on the forum :-))
I took off the password for the admin account, not knowing that this ...
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