Questions tagged [root]

In an Ubuntu system, root is the superuser, the owner of most system files. Questions about the root user or accessing superuser privileges may use this tag; the / or /root directories may be more appropriately tagged with "filesystem"

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I can't run terminal as root

When I run sudo su or any other command with sudo this is the output sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is world writable sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is world writable sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable sudo: no valid ...
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Keyboard is not working at apps while I login as root

I am able to write in terminal and search bar at the search apps when I login as root but my keyboard does not working in Firefox, spotify, burpsuite or any other apps. I am also writing this from non-...
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/ root filesystem has 0 bytes of space left

A few minutes ago I received a notification stating that there's only some 600 MB of space left in filesystem root. I went through /var/log and cleared the following files: syslog kern.log lern.log.1 ...
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I accidently changed my root user's name and now have lost all root permissions

I was messing around on my minecraft server with usermod and at some point I copied a command from a forum with incorrect terms. now when I sudo cat /etc/passwd, the output for my root user is as ...
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low disk space on file system root

I am working with Ubuntu 20.04. I had my ssd swapped for a larger one and had restored an image of the older one by a technician. It worked fine until recently the error "Low Disk Space on "...
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extending partition to root in ubuntu [duplicate]

I'm working on a Ubuntu 22.04 VM of 300GB , I got a warning " / is using 95.0% of 97.87GB" , I tried to increase my hard-disk space by adding additional 300GB of harddisk. This is the result ...
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Why are the root settings of Ubuntu-server different from those of Ubuntu-desktop?

I know this issue has been discussed before and many instructions indicate that Ubuntu does not set a root password. I installed Ubuntu 22.04-desktop on a VM and I checked the /etc/shadow file and saw ...
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how do i undo making a root in ubuntu [duplicate]

so I recently made the mistake of ignoring what everyone said about running vs code as root. I want to undo this but I don't know how and can't find anything online on how to undo this. I used the ...
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Update/set root password in auto-install

I need to set the root password in the autoinstall as it allows me to check the system by logging into the console after installation. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work, and I have the ...
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Auto fills root storage problem

After install ubuntu every things is perfect but root partition storage consumption is Rising automatically and it fills the root of 150GB in 40 min and it make the ubuntu unusable and stuck in black ...
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snap only lists 2 versions per app, but did NOT delete the actual snaps

My /var is full because the old snaps are not being deleted. As a stopgap, can I just manually delete all but the two most recent snaps? How can I make the old snaps be automatically deleted like I ...
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How can you turn a root user into a normal user?

When I first set up ubuntu, I did most of my stuff in the root account. However, working exclusively in the root account is a bad idea. How can I turn my root account into a normal account without ...
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root ssh acccess is disabled and sudo user can not make root changes on vps Ubuntu server

I first created a sudo user from root ssh by using below commands on my Ubuntu 22 server: adduser username usermod -aG sudo username Then, I disabled my Root login by going to nano /etc/ssh/...
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How to Extend Root partition from left? [duplicate]

337gbs to the left of root drive enter image description here I have windows on the left partition and resized the remaining drive space to add to the Linux root file system but not sure how to ...
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Is it possible to use gedit on a remote file with root permissions?

As titled, I'd like to open (and edit) remote text files with root permissions using the local text editor (gedit) I know about nautilus-admin, but it doesn't seem to work, unfortunately
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sudo doesn't working in Ubuntu 22.04 [duplicate]

I am going to update packages in Ubuntu 22.04 terminal. sudo apt update But I get errors like this. [email protected]:~$ sudo apt update [sudo] password for user: tester is not in the sudoers ...
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How do I change ownership of '/usr/libexec/sudo/sudoers.so' when it's stopping 'sudo' and 'su' from working properly?

any time I use sudo for any command I get the following errors: sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 0 while loading plugin "sudoers_policy" sudo: /usr/libexec/sudo/sudoers.so must be owned ...
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How to allow both a user and root to access directory? [duplicate]

How can I make /media/creeper39x/TB-Drive be owned by creeper39x, but root have access? Could I have a group with creeper39x and root in it?? Please help.
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How can I confirm that the default temporary directory is full and that is the reason my assembler isn't progressing the genome assembly process?

My sincere apologies for writing a lengthy question; but I am stuck in this problem, and I am not an advanced Linux user. I was running the CLC genomics workbench for my de novo assembly work. CLC ...
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Create altenate user to key pairs ssh login

I am using AWS EC2 and using a key pair with Putty for access. However in case I somehow lose access to the key pair I would like an alternative login. For now I created a password for root, but I am ...
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Destroyed sudo permissions, no access to grub due to nouveau kernal driver

I managed to get myself into quite the corner. I messed up permissions to /usr/bin/ and all subdirectories, e.g. root is no longer owner of /usr/bin/sudo. As a result, I get the infamous /usr/bin/sudo ...
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Root folder is running out of space

I am getting an error: / is running out of space when I work with the creation of docker images. Then I tried to list the top 10 large files on my computer's filestystem. It listed out 10 files/...
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I accidentally run command "chmod 555" on system directories [duplicate]

I accidently ran sudo chmod 555 / and now all users have lost access to the server Error: Last login: Thu Oct 18 16:50:55 2023 Could not chdir to home directory /home/User1: Permission denied /bin/...
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Can't access root folder in File Explorer since installing Ubuntu 22.04

I'm using WSL and I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 and I can no longer access the root folder under that directory. I can access the root folder in my OLD ubuntu directory, but when I click on root ...
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how to enable root user by default in autoinstall user data

in my product, i need to enable root user by default in autoinstall user-data file Expectation: root user login by default post installation i followed the below, version: 1 user-data: ...
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Command in Ubuntu to access start page for Broadcom

I have Ubuntu installed with Broadcom and need to run start page of Broadcom to install a driver.
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How to set a desktop file in an installation script running as root to "allow launching"

I try to set a desktop file into the "allow launching" state in my installation script running as root. I tried following different ways to get it done: gio set "/home/ubuntu/...
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How to make program installed in /root available to user? bash PATH

Sorry if this is trivial, I'm struggling to understand the PATH variable system. I have deno (the js runtime) installed here /root/.deno/bin/deno I have a user, let's say it's called user0. When I ...
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/run/user/1000 is not owned by UID 1000, as it should

So I have this error going on, and its the origin of a lot of errors with snap that I'm recieving. So when I execute: $ systemctl status display-manager Recieved some text and: gkr-pam: unable to ...
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I have another user than root with UID 0

I'm running a VPS which I have forogtten for quite a while. It was still running Ubuntu 18. I logged in today an saw that apparently the server was hacked, it was running a cryptominer and stuff. So I ...
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ssh root password

How can I get the root password, I'm trying to login in cmd with the command ssh root@localhost and I don't know what type of password I should use. The server is a linux vps. My system is Windows 10.
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libinput-config-default folder in /downloads/

I was clearing out my downloads folder and I had a copy of the etc folder from the root. I'm not sure why I had a copy of the etc folder there, but I just went ahead and deleted it along with ...
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restore sudo privilege without knowing sudo account [duplicate]

I always access to a test server using an account. But I has done some mess and now the user is no more a root user. I can restore privileges without knowing root credential? How can i solve (at last ...
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sudo apt-get update && apt upgrade tried to run this command and got a error

I run the command apt update and upgade but it gave this error .I tried the other methods like dpkg other fixes, but it did not get fixed. Also used grep command also the error ss
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Not able to switch to Sudo or root on my ubuntu-22.04.2-desktop-amd64.ISO isntalled on VirtualBox

I have used VirtualBox to setup my ubuntu-22.04.2 on Windows 10 Pro machine. Default user was added as vboxuser and no user is available. Not able to switch to user and update/install any new software....
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Access another system's root folder on mounted zfs rpool

my Ubuntu instance isn't booting, however I was able to use a Ubuntu Live USB to import the rpool, decrypt the drive, and use the system.key to mount the drive as read-only. I can only seem to access (...
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How to bypass grub user authorization in GNU GRUB

I have a linux machine and I updated the kernel which I shouldnt have done and now the machine won't boot up, I am trying to boot up with a previous kernel from GRUB but the system required me ...
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/etc/fstab mount as user?

Good Morning all, When I use my fstab command below, it seems to be mounting the directory as root causing me to be unable to edit anything: 192.168.1.74:/volume1/Barry/Plex/tv2 /mnt/plex/media/tv2 ...
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Struggling with fstab

I'm really struggling to understand my fstab file, I would like to mount the nfs so that all users can edit the directories (rw) but I seem to get 'root:root'. My fstab file: 192.168.1.74:/volume1/...
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Please help - directory permissions going weird

I've been working on my home server for nearly 2 weeks, at the same time I'm learning Ubuntu and I got everything to a place where I want it, then today - something, went wrong.. I have three main ...
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No permission to edit config files

I have a problem with editing config files. E.g. in the opt/ folder. I understand that I need to do this as root. But even with sudo gedit path/filename it doesn’t work (see screenshot). With sudoedit ...
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Repair a Ubuntu server installation after power fluctuation

I have an ubuntu server that includes a 256GB SSD as the boot device and 3 6TB SATA HDDs as a mdadm software RAID5 array. While it was up and running we had an electrical service interruption that ...
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after changing ubuntu user account and root password all files disappeared and cant run any software

i did write in terminal: sudo su then changer the root password: passwd and then exit to the user: exit and then changed the user password: sudo passwd username after changing ubuntu user account ...
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difficulty installing root

I'm trying to install root but am having the following issues. Please help me CMake Error at /home/joydev/Apps/root/root_build/AFTERIMAGE-prefix/src/AFTERIMAGE-stamp/AFTERIMAGE-build-Release.cmake:49 (...
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installation issues with musrffit using CERN/ROOT

I successfully installed root. After this, I set the environment variables (in .bashrc) as follows export ROOTSYS=/home/joydev/root/root-6.28.04-install export PATH=$ROOTSYS/bin=:$PATH Then I ...
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unable to repair fstab typo on ubuntu server 22.04 LTS [duplicate]

I was looking to set up a new partition on my hard drive and I accidentally made a typo in the fstab configuration file. To be precise, I addded a partition that was not yet formatted in the partition ...
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I have 2x PermitRootLogin in ssh_config Why?

Ubuntu 22.04 I was about to disable password login for root and in general. However, in the sshd_config file I see 2x PermitRootLogin. Nr. 1 is below "Authentication", commented and value is ...
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150GB root partition is full

i run ubuntu server 22.04 LTS on a SSD 150GB. This SSD is suddenly filled up to 100%. I deleted some logs and files I was sure not to need anylonger. But this gives me only 8% more space. I read a lot ...
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Ubuntu (on Windows) only root user available

I have installed Ubuntu on Windows, but somehow when I start it, only the root user is available, if I type "EXIT" it closes the terminal.
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Ubuntu root partition is full, system won't boot, and "sudo apt-get clean" isn't working

I set up an Ubuntu rig to host Plex and act as a file server on my local network. I'm new to Ubuntu, so I followed directions and things seemed to be running fine--no problems with boot up or memory. ...
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