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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Are separate "admin" accounts overkill? [closed]
According to this article, the author recommends not using an "administrator" account for day-to-day computing, due to security reasons... Way back when I used Microsoft Windows-based operating ...
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login loop on admin account, guest works fine [duplicate]
As you can tell I am having some issues. I am a gamer, and not having write privileges would be a death sentence to any gamer. With this guest account when I log. I have tried 2-3-4 fixes, Even did ...
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How to sudo apt-get install on multiple hosts simultaneously?
I have a couple of maschines to maintain. I want to have the capability to install a package on all maschines at once. What is the easiest way to do that using ubuntu?
Here is an example of how I ...
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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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Run Windows program in Wine as administrator
I am attempting to run the Pokemon Dawn of Darkness game in Ubuntu 16.04 through Wine, but there's a part of the program that Wine does not like (a file called AsyncFile.exe). I can remove that file ...
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Can a standard 16.04 user ever make su commands?
It happens that I must install new programs while logged in as a standard user who is not a sudoer. Then I must log in as another user from the GNOME login display which is somewhat cumbersome.
Is ...
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Cannot change Intel turbo boost (/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo/ not accessible)
Trying to follow this answer under Disabling Intel Turbo Boost in ubuntu:
In order to see the driver:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_driver
intel_pstate
intel_pstate
intel_pstate
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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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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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user sudo permissions but not switch to root user
Please help, if I grant permissions to a user in the /etc/sudoers.d file like so:
newuser ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
That user has all permissions. But I don´t want this user to be able to switch to the ...
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How to make sure that only the administrator can change passwords
How do I make sure that a non-administrator user can not change his own password? I want only administrator to do that.
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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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How to automatically stop Apache when login into a user session
I want to develop a web service and need Apache to turn off when logged on a user account. To activate it when only when I'm developing.
I use a hotspot to try the web service via WiFi
I've tried to ...
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domainuser to superuser
I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 and joined this to our company domain.
When i log in as a domain user with my domain passwd it works perfectly, also i can have sudo right so i can become a root user.
To ...
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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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How do I add a new admin user? [duplicate]
Ok, I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I was an administrator, but then someone made a standard user and deleted the admin account. How do I make a new admin user without it asking me to enter a ...
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Why do users created from System settings > user accounts not appear in sudoers?
I'm running Ubuntu 15.10 on different machines.
On one of those I had to create a new user from command line (adduser) and then I added it to /etc/sudoers to give admin authorizations to that user.
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Take ownership of files as admin
I'm somewhat new to Ubuntu but have been learning a lot on my own. I am an admin user for my PC. However, when I try to take ownership of most folders, like usr/local, it says I don't have ...
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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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Can't login to my main administrator account?
After recovering from the warning failed to connect to lvmetad error I released when I tried to login to the first account I ever created was not logging in I typed in the right password it says the ...
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How to disable Java in the browser for all users?
After reading this news I decided that I would disable Java in my browser, so I opened up the Java Control Panel and went to the Security tab:
However after unticking Enable Java content in the ...
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Difference between admin/normal accounts except the right to use "sudo"?
This may sound stupid, but I wonder if there is any difference between normal and administrator user accounts (created with the Unity Control Center) except the right to use sudo to become root.
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Terminal asks for password but does not let me enter anything (15.04)
Whenever I try to open steam or some other programs, it opens the terminal and asks for my password, but when I try to enter it, it does not type anything and pressing enter just says sorry, try again....
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How to create new user with sudo access [duplicate]
My attempts at trying to create a new user on Ubuntu 15.04 desktop have been unsuccessful.
Sure, I get the new user and the login works and all seems fine. But then I can't use anything requiring sudo....
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How to block the use of apps from other users
How would I go about not allowing none-administrative users from using applications that I don't them to? I'm new to configuration files so please give me step-by-step instructions so that I don't ...
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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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How to change sudo passwords [duplicate]
When I try to change a sudo password, it say it doesn't work even running the
mount -rw -o remount /
When you run that command it would say i worked from the root menu but would still be invalid when ...
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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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How to find my administrator details when I can't even see an administrator account [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu Gnome 13.10. In the beginning, the first user account I created was considered as my administrator account. I changed that account to Standard now and I can't make it back to ...
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Administrators can change passwords of other administrators
I seems that a user set as an "Administrator" can change passwords of not only "Standard" users, but also other administrators. Is there a way to make it so that administrators (there are multiple on ...
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my stand alone laptop
I have a Lenovo think pad with Ubuntu 14.04 installed I set a new password to the administrator account and I forget what that is. I can use the machine but making changes it asks for the password in ...
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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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Why can't I install "Open As Administrator"?
I tried following this tutorial:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install open-as-administrator
But I keep getting this error.
Any idea what might be the ...
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Admin account won't load after update
I'm only asking this question because any other answer I found online to this problem didn't help me resolve it.
Basically I updated my Ubuntu 14.04 system last night and it asked me to restart my ...
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Cannot execute sudo command without correct password (Even though my account has no password). Why? [duplicate]
My account on my computer does not require a password, and I have admin privelages. As I understand it, so I'm trying to run sudo [...] and getting the following result when leaving the password field ...
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How can I make my main user an administrator, just like in Windows XP? [duplicate]
How can I make my main user which I log into, an administrator just like in Windows XP?
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How to enable password for administrator user account [duplicate]
I disabled the password for my user account while I was logged in (I was the only administrator). But I did not enable automatic login. I switched user to "Guest", but when I switched back to my ...
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How to install Gimp Toolbox Photoshop Theme
i want to unpack the zip file (from GIMP toolbox like Photoshop) to the path /usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/
but I need administrator rights to unpack that zip file. How can I proceed?
Link: http://...
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Lubuntu desktop not loading on admin user
My lubuntu crashed, and after reboot, when I log in on any of my administrator accounts, it would show the default wallpaper and the mouse pointer. Also, can't open the terminal or any other keyboard ...
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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
misha
misha@...
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What is the different between an Normal and Admin account?
What is the different between an Normal user account and the Admin account in Ubuntu?
You must always enter your password if you want do something. Can you give a Normal account "limitations" to do ...
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Accidently removed admin/sudo rights [duplicate]
I removed admin rights for the original admin account, in order to set up a new account with clear history. (Not 100% that was needed, I am still getting to grips with linux / Ubuntu 12.04 and I read ...
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Cannot access the file: Permission denied - Virtualbox
I have downloaded Virtualbox in order to run Android in it I have set up everything and tried to start it but unfortunately 2 errors have came up.
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine ...
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cannot access launcher or onboard when unetbootin asked for password
when i try to start unetbootin it usually asked for password. But when it asked for password ,i can not access luncher, and the onboard is also not access able during this time. On the other hand, in ...
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I disabled my admin account and now I can't log in no guest account [duplicate]
So I just bought a used Sony vaio with the ubuntu operating system. I disabled my admit account thinking that when I powered up it would just go to the home screen. Now I can't log in. It recognizes ...
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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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Setting password for administrator [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have three users - one administrator and two standard users. I changed the password for administrator to 'None'. Later I used passwd command to set the password for the ...
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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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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 ...