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Multiple devices attached to one machine which operate independently of each other.

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How to share byobu with multiple users?

The best way to learn and troubleshoot is to pair up with someone else on the internet via text based screensharing. Love the ergonomics of byobu for a single user at a single time. However when I ...
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Backup all home folders on usb disk and accessibility

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and have multiple family members working on it, each with their own home folder. I have an USB disk that I want to use to backup all my home folders. When my disk auto ...
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Root-like directories

Forgive me if I understand the Linux file system wrong here. Can I add different root-like directories for users? Example; I want to sudo apt install ncar-ncl in a user named climate, so when I ...
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How to get audio when starting a GUI program as another user on Kubuntu 22.10 (PipeWire)?

I currently use a command like this to start Firefox as a different user: # using fake "get-user2-password" command abstraction here for simplicity xhost "+SI:localuser:user2" &...
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Unable to log in as second user

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. Everything works fine as a single user. If I try and log in as another user without logging out the first one, the login prompt just keeps reappearing with no error message. I've ...
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Can't get VNC to work for multi-user Ubuntu 16 & 18 desktops (is there a better remote solution?)

My engineering team has four special shared computers running a mix of Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 and 18.04 that are in a lab that's a 5-minute walk from our cubes. We need remote desktop access for these ...
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How do I update all computers in my home from my computer on a routine schedule?

My wife, daughters, and I have four computers using Ubuntu in our home, two on 16.04, two on 16.10, all wired to the same router. Is there an easy way to keep them all current on Ubuntu updates/...
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Three users working simultaneously on Ubuntu DESKTOP 16.04 LTS through remote connection?

I want to install Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 LTS in my computer, it has 64 GB RAM, Xenon Processor. I want to install other softwares with GUI such as, MATLAB, R Studio etc. If I install, Ubuntu Desktop ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS compass run from another user

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 VM and 3 users (root, prod, git) prod$ groups prod git$ groups git prod I have installed ruby on the VM for every user and ran source /home/prod/.rvm/scripts/rvm so I could ...
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How to make transmission work for all users

I tried opening a magnet link from a different (standard) user I created and it didn't work. It asked me to choose a program to open it with. There was no list of programs to choose from. I also ...
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Xserver shows just the icons on the second screen

i would like to have two different Xserver sessions, because i want to use the same machine from two differet computer by VNC. I mean we are two different person that need to work in the same server, ...
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Ubuntu general user mkdir testing

I have generic question about testing mkdir command,firstly I dont have root access, I am user xyz , I will create mkdir dump && chmod 777 dump , now is there a possibility in linux where i ...
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How to configure two or more network interfaces to work simultaneously on different users I log into linux

I have 2 nics on my pc and I need to configure them to work simultaneously on each user I log in, one nic per user, (knowing that you can change the user and the programs of one keep running even if ...
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Switching between users in XFCE / LightDM without locking session

When I was using KDE with KDM it was very simple to switch users. After I logged in multiple sessions I could easily switch by pressing ctrl+alt+f7 and ctrl+alt+f8 and so on. It was seamless because: ...
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Ubuntu 20.10 Lost all files with usermod when added user 1001 to group 1002 accidentally

I was adding a new user {rasa} to my Ubuntu studio 20.10. I was adding rasa uid:1002 gid:1002 groups=rasa (1002) To the audio group for privileges to change cpu to performance and set jack settings. ...
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Why my messages in /etc/motd are not showing?

My welcome message is not showing, how do I check if it is enabled or disabled
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How to ask a user to enter a welcome message? Then, how to do I print this custom message to other users?

I should execute necessary bash commands to print this custom message automatically to other users.
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How can I give access to a single wordpress folder to some 3rd person in Ubuntu?

The owner and group of 'www/website1' is root:www-data and I can tinker with its contents or configuration as root or sudo user. But now, I want to create another website named website2 (under 'www' ...
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How to create a shortcut for all users?

Ingles Dear, Good morning, we want to implement in the user profiles already generated a shortcut on the desktop where an OpenVPN terminal is being run with the following command: openvpn --config ...
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Backing up system in a way that preserves user accounts

I'll be backing up a deep learning rig for work that has an ancient Ubuntu install on it so I can upgrade it to current, but I need a way to do it that can preserve user accounts in addition to their ...
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UBUNTU GO DOWN -Adding users in bulk - with UID, group, name etc

Lets say i have a file called users.txt with the following user info: user1:6001:grp1:This is user1:/home/user1:/bin/bash user2:6002:grp2:This is user2:/home/user2:/bin/dash user3:6003:grp3:This is ...
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16.04 - attempting to take ownership of home directory of other user via shared group privileges

As the title says, I'm attempting to make it so my primary account on my ubuntu machine has rwx privileges over the home directory of another account. I made a group for both accounts to share and ...
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BleachBit for all users

New to Linux, but learning fast. I have set up a user "thekids" for the kids. When I run BleachBit (BB) to clean up my user-stuff before a Clonezilla image backup, I'd like some way for it to also ...
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Adding users and giving special permissions

I have tried different things with chmod and adduser commands but it will take too much time for me to do this. Here is what I try to do: Lets say I will add 3 users to my system. Each user can read ...
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Autostart desktop applications without session login

I understand the idea of startup applications when starting a session (ie How do I start a program automatically when I boot?). However, I'm trying to have desktop applications for multiple users ...
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