Outside of using something like screen, is it possible to 'assume' an active user session under Linux/UNIX?For example, I ssh to my server from home. Then I ssh to it form work. I want to kill the home-spawned session, and "take-over" all of the processes that it had running.
View 2 RepliesI am currently in a project to set up an LTSP server with 10 thin clients. I am using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic).
Installing server and booting clients are working fine. Now, according to the need, I have to restrict user session numbers and allow resuming previous user session.
I have achieved to do the first one, but still could not able to setup the second one. As per requirement, if some thin can have power failure, the same session should be restored back. I am confused here, if I need to focus on saving xsessions or saving gnome sessions. I am looking for a concrete solution as I am running out of time.
I'm in the process of converting my Windows NT server to an ubuntu server box. I've been testing the server edition in a virtual machine and I only have one problem.
My server computer doesn't have a screen and i was wondering if i can logon to the computer using remote desktop without an active logon session already in progress.
At the moment, I need to be logged on in the desktop environment before i can connect to the remote desktop service in Ubuntu. In Windows, you don't need to have an active logon session to connect remotely (so you can startup a session without needing a screen). I would like to have the same, so i don't need to run to server just to logon after restarting it.
It is probably some service i need to start on system boot, but well, i'm not that familiar yet with linux servers, at least not to do that kind of stuff.
My users would also like to have a visual interface (which is why i installed the ubuntu-desktop from the repository).
I'm trying to write a small script that will run as root, but launch a command with sudo as another user. I want that user to be whichever user is active user. That is, the user that is using GDM right now, or the one that is logged into the current console. (by current console, I don't mean the user running the script, but rather the user logged into the console currently displayed on the screen.)How can this be done?
Code:
ACTIVE_USER=`somecommand`
test `id -u pulse` -ge 1000 && sudo -u $ACTIVE_USER $*
What can I use for "somecommand"?
I recently installed Suse Linux enterprise Desktop 11 on my box. I created an user and logged in first time into a GNOME session without any problems. Last time I logged in I selected the session as TWM and that got me into the T windows manager just fine. Now when I log out and try to log back into a GNOME session, it will still log me into the TVM sessionI have tried restarting the boxHowever, when I remote log in to the machine it will let me get on the GNOME session just fine. I'm guessing this is probably a really simple fix, however I am a Linux newbie and doing a google search isn't yielding me what I'm looking for.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs possible (by root of course) to run a command from console, that will be executed on X-session owned by another user on the same linux box/machine ? Example: Can root open xclock for another local user logged into X11 ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm ssh'ed into a machine and logged in as a different user. Is it possible to open a few new windows that will still be ssh'ed into that same machine, still logged in as that user?
View 2 Replies View RelatedFor a while now whenever I log off/shutdown I always get a dialogue asking me to abort an active session.Its a root user session on vt3. The strange thing is I can not get to that session for love nor money, going to tty3 I just have a login prompt, I've tried logging in and then logging out but whenever I go to close down again I always get the same dialogue.
I've only just noticed recently that on the login screen (KDE) In the Menu > Switch User dialogue I have the option to switch to a root session on vt3 or the current graphical session on vt7. Yes, I've tried switching to the session there on vt3 and again same as above when switching manually to tty3.
I've recently upgraded from 11.0 to 11.2 64-bit, this is one of the issues I was hoping to get rectified in the upgrade, but I think instead a setting/lock file must be causing confusion somewhere.
It is very annoying messing from GNOME.
I understand the risks of running Linux GUI as root but its not a problem.
tell me how to get rid of text message.
Is there a way to inhibit Transmission at times when a user is active and only have it downloading/seeding when the computer is idle (or is there another Torrent client that will do so)? I know about the limits that can be set, but those are clock based, not activity based limitations. As it is now, when it is running, my web browsing speed and other online activities take a big hit in responsiveness. I want to be responsible and seed completed downloads. However, the performance hit makes it difficult to tolerate, and manually pausing and resuming torrents every time I sit down at the computer or get up to leave is inconvenient.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have around 12 users, with their profiles present on a Windows 2003 Active Directory and I would like to migrate to an open source free alternative.Could you recommend any alternative that supports the migration of user files from Active Directory?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI followed these steps to add a client to my active directory domain, everything is working as expected except that when a username has whitespace it creates a directory in /home with whitespace and gconf fail to access his config dir in the user's home. KDE also fails to start but I don't know what's failing yet. I found that the easiest way to fix these issues is to replace whitespaces by underline in homepaths so I changed the pam_mkhomedir source to replace the whitespaces and save it using the usermod command. It should work but is not... the reason is that I can't change the user data using the usermod because domain users are not in /etc/passwd.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIn recent versions of ubuntu, the behavior of gdm and gnome is changed so that if a gnome user doesn't touch the mouse or keyboard for a while, the session is locked, and they have to type their password in order to get back in. I dislike this behavior, because on some of the machines I use and manage, people will walk away and not come back, and then there is no way to log them out. I can switch and log in as a different user, but the AWOL user's session is sitting there eating up resources until the machine is rebooted. I prefer the old behavior, with no locking. Is there any way to get the old behavior back? I've looked through the gdm.conf docs, but can't seem to find anything relevant. This actually seems more like a gnome issue than a gdm issue. I think what's changed is that gnome now invokes a screensaver after a certain amount of time, and that screensaver locks the session.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy all production PC r running under ADC windows2008 server. Recently I implement a file server in CentOS 5. Now I want to integrate Samba (File sharing) using Active Directory so that all access permission to file server comes from AD's permission.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed KDE 4.3.5 on my existing Gnome desktop and i have two users using the computer. Now from Gnome I am accustomed to switch between session very easy and the sessions continue to run. If I use the Switch option from KDE it just looks my screen and does not switch. Is it possible that I miss some programs? I installed it with Yast and used the group option. I am pretty sure that I missed something during the installation.
View 5 Replies View Relatedis there a way to kill a pts/* or tty* user session from comman line, without knowing its process id.
View 1 Replies View Relatedsetup user authentication server and internet accounting server like ISA and Active Directory in Windows?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'v debian with xfce, how can I automatically insert my user at login screen?? ...and what's the name of the program that start the login screen and maybe change it??
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently installed debian 8 stretch with xfce. Since the first time I boot, I have problem starting my X session: from lightdm I always attemped 2 or 3 times before it login (it returned me on lightdm prompt after a short splash screen).
Now it stopped working: the only way I can start xsession is running startx as root. When I try as user it starts the "splash" and return me to the tty with this error message:
Code: Select allServer terminated with error (1). Closing log file(EE)
This is my ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
Code: Select all[ 27.703]
X.Org X Server 1.18.2
Release Date: 2016-03-11
[ 27.704] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 27.704] Build Operating System: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 i686 Debian
[ 27.704] Current Operating System: Linux debian 4.3.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.3.5-1 (2016-02-06) i686
[Code] .....
And this is my /etc/X11//Xsession
Code: Select all#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/X11/Xsession
#
# global Xsession file -- used by display managers and xinit (startx)
# $Id: Xsession 967 2005-12-27 07:20:55Z dnusinow $
[Code] ....
and this the .xsession-errors:
Code: Select allXsession: X session started for lucatastrophe at Tue Mar 29 10:21:09 CEST 2016
localuser:lucatastrophe being added to access control list
openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at :0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting MAIL=/var/mail/lucatastrophe
[Code] ...
I try to reconfigure Xorg but the Xorg -configure command result in another segmentation fault.
I think that the problem could be related with old configuration (when I install this version of debian I maintain the /home partition and my previous OS was debian 7 with xfce).
Quite some time ago I managed to get sound working perfectly on my DELL Inspiron 1720 under openSUSE 11.2 and KDE 4.3.5. Then suddenly some months ago for one of the four regular users on my system sound stopped working! KMix is always muted after KDE session startup for this user and even if you unmute it there's still absolutely no sound; in particular, the commandspeaker-test -c2 -l5 -twavdoesn't generate any sound (while I do see the printed output which doesn't contain any error messages). Even if I su to root in the very same Konsole window speaker-test remains silent!
Since sound is OK for the three other regular users I've already compared KMix settings as well as System Settings > Multimedia for each of the regular users but found absolutely no differences. BTW: In System Settings > Multimedia I have XINE set as the backend and "PulseAudio" has priority over "HDA Intel (STAC92xx Analog)" for all sort of audio output, and - perhaps needless to mention - all the four regular users are members of group "audio".
Before I start, I have searched everywhere I can for help with this, tried everything suggested and still cant do this.
The annoying thing is ive done it before but cant replicate it.
I have ubuntu installed on my usb stick using lili usb creator.
I want to remove live session user (username ubuntu).
Ive created my own account with privileges etc.
Ubuntu is 9.10.
i wonder if you can modify KDE so that users can only log in once with one session.Currently, with KDE 4.5, i have the problem that user can log in several times and then ending up with an application used in a different session which means that you can not use it in the other session.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have problem with sshd server, its authenticate user and then terminate the session. Here is debug log:
Jan 1 04:26:41 server sshd[29677]: debug1: userauth-request for user root service ssh-connection method none
Jan 1 04:26:41 server sshd[29677]: debug1: attempt 0 failures 0
Jan 1 04:26:43 server sshd[29677]: debug1: userauth-request for user root service ssh-connection method password
Jan 1 04:26:43 server sshd[29677]: debug1: attempt 1 failures 0
Jan 1 04:26:43 server sshd[29676]: Accepted password for root from xx.xx.xx.xxx port 50971 ssh2
Jan 1 04:26:43 server sshd[29676]: debug1: monitor_child_preauth: root has been authenticated by privileged process .....
I have installed VirtualBox as per the instructions on this site, and the kernel module compiled without problem, however when I start it, it causes the user to logout!
I am using the nvidia module from the ATrpms repo if that has any bearing on the problem.
Has anyone else seen this issue?
Details:
CentOS 5.5 x86_64 running on a Dell Studio XPS 435MT with i7 920 and 6GB of RAM
VirtualBox 4.0.2 from virtualbox repo.
nvidia driver 260.
I've got a somewhat anemic box, resource-wise, set up in the office where any authorized user plus a guest account can log on. Guest is tightly restricted, but we get a lot of people passing through who need one-time or occasional access - this isn't the big problem. What's causing me problems is that a user will log in, walk away or go to the john and the screen locks. Next user (or this one comes back) and winds up doing another login. At the end of a week or so, I may have a couple of dozen sessions listed when I ask for "users". Since some of these session contain open applications they eat up an awful lot of a marginal amount of available memory. How do I kill the entire session (as root) for a user? Gotta be simple but it's not obvious to me.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow can i hide the bubble with username in the upper bar, right hand? It is linked to the shutdown icon but i want to keep that icon but hide the bubble with the name of the user.
I was searching but i didn't find anything, only how to hide all the mini-applet session (shutdown icon included).
I attached an image with what i am saying.
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what is the default user ID and password in remastersys for live cd / usb session?
View 3 Replies View RelatedRecently I deleted files from my root/share folder in an attempt to remove a program which had made the system virtually unusable. Upon reboot of the system I accessed the partition I had just edited and I found that I was unable to login using the login manager, every time I hit login it just returns me to the same screen displaying the message: unable to start session.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI would love to auto-start tomboy at startup. How can I do this ? [Moderator edit: fixed Subject so nobody would expect an automatic Lunch. Is that the same as a free one? ]
View 2 Replies View RelatedI noticed (the hard way) that enabling a guest session under 9.04 does not lock the source user. I enabled a guest session for someone and came back to find them rooting through my files. By quitting the guest session, it goes back to the source user's desktop without requiring a password. Shouldnt it go to gnome-screensaver automatically? Can this be changed? Is it a bug?
to replicate: log into source user's account use the menu to start a guest session quit the guest session root through files un-opposed.