I work with a text mode debian6.0 and when I was testing some commands, I changed default shell to ash. System replied that it has not ash shell.so I thought the shell did not change. But when I start the system again and enter root password, I see a message like "can not execute ash. No such file or directory" and then system return to login page again. Root is the only user on that system.
i'm currently using fedora15 Gnome3...i was just wondering that i have seen many different login box and login screens of users. how do i change my login box and login screen
Hello.I am using Opensuse 11.1 (just installed),gnome-based .My problem is,I can only login as root,cos the tty's attached to my normal user(non-privileged)keep crashing(I checked this with last).Is there any way I can fix this?I reinstalled several times,nothing to do.
I've had my prompt change whenever I :sh (:shell) out of VIM, but can't for the life of me remember how?. The idea is to change the prompt to something like [SH] <your usual prompt here>, so that I know that VIM is running in the background.. I often logout of the shell, because I think VIM is open.
When we are asked for password while booting Linux, is that the login shell ? If yes, we can't seem to be able to do anything in that shell besides typing the password. (Is it in this that the contents of /home/.profile file gets executed ? in a sigle PC)
When we click on the terminal icon for the first time, are we opening a subshell of something or a new shell altogether? If on repeatedly clicking on the terminal icon, new shells are being launched, not sub-shells, then why does export seem to work with the new shells, though its supposed to work for subshells ?
I was trying to change my shell from bash to csh by typing "csh" and got this error "if: Empty if." I figured it is because if and then do show up in the same line in the cshell source file. However there is no .cshrc in my home directory. I looked at the /etc/csh.cshrc and everything seems correct. No "empty if".
I have looked almost everywhere for how to change my default shell prompt. When I open my bash shell, the prompt is [fedora-dev@Fedora-Dev Documents]$. I would like it to open at fedora-dev@Fedora-Dev]$.
Can someone tell me where to change this at. I have looked in .bashrc, etc/profile, and environmental variables.
I was trying to create a shell script which will automatically login to the server 192.168.1.7 and checks if a user exists there or not, if it doesn't exist then it should create the user.I have very little idea about shell scriptThis is what I tried:Quote:
#!/bin/bash pass="sacharje" ssh 192.168.1.7
Now, how to pass that password automatically to the ssh when it asks for the password? (I can't use public key authentication here)
yesterday I updated my fedora 13 to fedora 14 (on laptop) and today i cannot log in on user. It just go blank for a sec and is back to login.
At text console (alt+ctr+f2/f3) i enter my username and pass it give this for a sec and resets (clean) console username: Name password: last used: [date] login: no shell permission denied
i used unetbootin (fedora 14 netinstall to update) and later i updated 1,5G before reboot (did update that fix, forgot its name tho :s)
I would most likely reinstall everything, but i have some work at laptop and as death-line is near, i would prefer to fix it if possible.
edited: i have installed F13 on unused space, is there a way for me to access and fix it? or at least get some files from there?
after i made the change to my shell type, that from SH to TCH, and back again, i lost my coloring for my file system, if you know what i mean, folders always come in blue, and devices in yellow hope you understand? now everything i do can't seem to differentiated between files colors anymore.
Running Fedora 10 server. ssh login over Internet. Verify users are complaining they canno change their account password after they login in. They need to be able to change their password as all users have the same initial password. Makes sense, right? Shell lets you go through the motions and then displays the following message:
passwd: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
I want to make my system load in GUI to login. I set Login Manager in KDE, and found in google inittab. There maybe I have to change run level from 3 to 4 (X11 with KDE), but I am not sure to change the file. I am afraid to broke my system. Do I have to change run level in inittab to boot in GUI?Other way is to make image of the partition and to try it...
I'd like to change the login thing on the left of the terminal: [james@xxxxxx home]$ But can't figure out what it's called to do a search, so figured I'd ask all in one! What is it called, and how do I customise it in bash_profile ?
I use linux mint 8, and I want to change the background for the login screen. For easier and smoother login. Ive googled for days,cand nothing works. I tried GDM2 and I press select new image, but it doesnt work. Do I need the image in a certain folder?
I rarely work with Desktop enviroment and so stuck in GNOME for following task I want to change background image of login screen with my own photograph in RHEL 5.3. How to achieve this ?
I am using debian 5.04(base) + lxde. I am using gdm to login. I want to change the gdm to commandline login only, which similar to (ctrl +alt + f2) but whenever computer restart, it boot into gdm. what is the file to change the boot level?
I am trying to change the login screen from "Configure Your Desktop>Advanced>Login Manager".When I go into the login manager, everything is grayed out,you cannot change anything.I have to change it as root but I don't know how to do that. Therefore I need help regarding that. I did google searching but it was not of any help because they were for previous releases of mandriva or other distros which didn't apply to my case.
It seems to be locked up. i cant change any settings, im familiar with kde 4.3 as ive been a kde user in ubuntu for a year or two. every single button is greyed out. i mostly have default options setup in mandriva, i just started using it.
I am using the sudo command to log on locally as another user by the following command:
sudo -u theotheruser -s or sudo -u theotheruser sh
As I see it, this initiates a new shell with the mentioned other user.However, this doesn't load that users profile from his home directory.Is there a way to automatically read the users profile when login in with selected command? I am mostely interested in getting a working prompt when logged in.
1. Is there a way to change the broken glass/monitor background on the login screen???
2. I have tried to login as root, but it will not accept the password, but if I login with my user name and need to change things that require root privileges the password works fine.
I worked a little back in 05 and 06 with FC4 and FC5 but nothing until now..
We have a centos machine which serves as a web server. We also have a mysql server running on it. Currently we log-in via a gui prompt into a gui session. We are looking at changing this aspect; we want to login via the shell instead of gui. We'd need to keep all the current services on that machine running however. What should we do?Even once this is done I'd need to know how to start a gui session from the shell itself.
MACHINE: HP Proliant DL260G5OS: SLES 11 SP1kernel: Linux xserver 2.6.32.12-0.7-default #1 SMP 2010-05-20 11:14:20 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/LinuxIt is used as remote xserver in a LAN.I have configured /usr/lib/restricted/bin/.rbashrc with some environment variables but when the users logon in the system finally is executed $HOME/.bashrc and some environment vars are overwritten.