I have never set up any other password, yet I'm asked for Root password and therefore locked out from superuser.This is my own personal computer at home and there is no other O/S installed.My password works for almost anything else I've needed it for so far but I can't install my printer driver, or access su, or any of its other related privileges
View 5 RepliesMy father put a new superuser password on my laptop, and now I cant access my computer without him putting the password in. How can I get rid of his superuser control? Can I delete or change the superuser thing.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a regular password and a masterpassword, but sometimes I am being asked for a superuserpassword? I have no scripting experience and a very basic idea of how linux works. I am trying to get enough of a handle on this OS, so I can use it comfortably.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWe use a linux (centOS I believe) cluster for our research. My professor somehow forgot the new password he set for root, and now can't login as 'su'. What is the way (or best way) to reset the root password without damaging something. I don't know whether it's even setup for 'sudo'. What will the procedure with and without 'sudo'?
View 5 Replies View RelatedThis is an old question asked many times, which, however, is NEVER answered directly in any manual I've checked. So...I'm writing a bash install script (instead of a rpm or .deb package) that must be run by a normal user. change to superuser (asking for password and receiving it) and the rest of the script to be executed in the superuser mode in order to install what I mean to install.I know how `sudo ...` or `su `root"..."` or `gnome-terminal -e ...` can achieve this purpose by creating certain batch files and then give them as argument to these commands. That's NOT what I'm asking, however.I want to know how I can make the script interactively switch to superuser mode and go on running the rest of the script (can be a lot of code) in that mode. I don't mind if it oens a separate terminal window to do that; just how can that be achieved?
View 8 Replies View RelatedHaving to write my user password every time I want to do anything. I DO know I'm doing something risky for the system, that's why I have Linux. Is there a way to avoid to rewrite the password again and again, like start with superuser permissions?
View 2 Replies View Relatedwrote a network emulator program in c programming. It can run for ubuntu terminal with good performance.But i have to make it for web-based user configuration. So i had setup apache web server and write this program in cgi script and try to execute this program from web page.This program must be run in root privilege($sudo -s) and add the iptables rules such as (#iptables -A OUTPUT -j QUEUE). So my question is how to add iptables rules in my cgi scripts? How to set the superuser(root privilege) permission to access my program through web server?
View 2 Replies View RelatedFedora 11, new install from live cd newest nomachine free server and client for linux fedora server to fedora/windows clients connection. I cant use most superuser programs in gnome, when logging in with nomachine. I can start a program like "add/remove software" and search for the software and get results. It can search for dependencies, but when i push "install", the "files that will be installed" window just closes, and I get back to the main window. Nothing gets installed.
This is the behavior in most such programs. I kind of get the feeling that these programs are either ignoring su actions, or trying to display the "autorization request" or password window locally. Also, when selinux stops something, and i get a star up in the right corner, I can't "show" the message. It just closes the bubble and goes on with its business. I just installed fedora over ubuntu. Ubuntu behaved like i wanted it to in this regard, giving me the power to install and change stuff, and displaying the password request every time it felt the need to. I don't want to go back to ubuntu.
I can ofc ssh into the server, and use yum and such. But i don't want to if i can get away with it. I don't care about the security issue. I have a fairly good fw/router and only one idiot user (me), and he can blame himself when his surfing lets the bad guys inside. So, what i want is to do administrative tasks via nomachine.
When I run GTK applications on KDE, they use the QtCurve theme that matches my color and font scheme as configured in the KDE System Settings application.However GTK applications run as superuser use the old default GNOME, regardless of whether I run them with kdesudo, gksudo, or sudo on a terminal. For example, here's gedit run as superuser on top, and under my normal user account on the bottom: Qt applications run with kdesudo display the default Oxygen styling but use my settings when run with sudo on a terminal. Is there any way to configure the stying GTK applications use when run as superuser on KDE?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn my office we sometimes have servers that hit the max_connections limit. As we sometimes have scripts that take up that 1 extra 'superuser' slot for MySQLD, we'd like to raise that. Google really hasn't turned up much on this, is there a way to raise the number of slots?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using a work computer so i don't have a root access. I've tried "+y, "*y, set clipboard=unnamed. It looks like my vim doesn't support +clipboard (version 7.0).I'm using Linux Centos 5 so fakeclips doesn't actually help (i think)It's a pain to type stuff manually from firefox to vim or other apps and vice versa.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have tried: booting into single user mode (using '1' and 'single' in my bootloader edits) and it still ends up kicking me to the 'myBox login:' prompt booting from a live-CD with no luck - seems my CD drive is hosed, or the system just won't boot the CD
This is a system I set up, literally, years ago, with no need to touch it. It was originally set up as a file server, running SAMBA. I am wanting to add CUPS to it, and possibly a web server if it will handle the load. Currently, it is running Debian 4.0 without a GUI.
My next step, if I can't get into the root account, is to install a new OS (and try to salvage the file shares that exist). I just would rather keep the install that I have, but I need to hack/crack or change my root password.
I m Trying to get vsftpd usergroups to work i accidentally moved a file called passwd from /etc/vsftpd/ to /etc/, resulting in my root access is destroyed! how to restore the passwd file so i can keep working, or do i have to re-install the entire box?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have just configured samba and it is working fine, the only problem that i have face when i go to access some sharing on samba server it asking me about password but the problem is that its username option is embossed. By default it will login as guest but i dont know the guest password.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've had it for about 2 months and I know some of the complicated things. I was wondering how I would make Ubuntu 10.10 ask for the root password when ever looking at a folder, picture, mp3 file, etc. Is this possible
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a requirement related to the apache access log file format: When a user access my local site, http authentication will be displayed:
Code: username: saagar password: 123 I wish to have the LogFormat in the configuration file in such a way that the username and password (saagar/123 in this case) will be logged in the /var/log/apache2/mysite_access_log file. I used the %u parameter as follows: Code: LogFormat "%h %u "%r" %>s %b" common CustomLog /var/log/apache2/mydreamhome_access.log common and it works, similarly I wish the password too to be displayed in the access_log file.
I have a high priority service that I start with sudo nice -n -10 process. This process does not need superuser rights though, except for the priority elevation. But nice requires superuser privileges to elevate priority.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install google chrome on my computer, it is in a .deb package and I am using dreamlinux. Earlier today I installed a .cbr/.cbz file reader from root, that was also a .deb and it worked just fine. now I go to install google chrome and it says (Blue is my command, and red is the system response):
I checked under my USER GROUPS and Root is still set as root, and I haven't been using it unless I need to install with it to other directories, Should I be using another command to install? or is it a problem that may affect other aspects of my system? ... My biggest concern is not getting google in, I can wait for that ... I just wanna know why ROOT is under the impression it's not a superuser.
Im trying to config my intranet to be accessible from inside the network (lan) without need of password and ask for a passwd for those who are viewing from Wan ....
Today my intranet can only be accessed from Lan, external access give me an Unauthorized message, I took look around, try #irc and still can get the appropriated help, I hope that someone here could help me on that...
A piece of my config:
Code:
So I'm trying to install the icon package called Token-Dark. I figured out that I have to move the icons to usr/share/icons. When I try to copy the file I get the error "permission denied". I tried to change the permissions on the folder, but it says that I'm not the root, or the owner of the files, so I can't change anything.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to login as root in GUI just like login as normal user, how this can be achieved. i tried giving root and its password but failed. i dont want to go from terminal. just want to know how this can be done.
View 14 Replies View RelatedIm comming from ubuntu/mint and one of the things I got used too was doing something like "sudo nautilus" or "sudo gedit" and similar things. In Suse 11.3 I always get errors like the following
(gedit:6115): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
kate: cannot connect to X server
Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:
or similar variations of these.What can I so to prevent this from happening? even if I do "su" and try from there it doesnt always work.I like Suse as it feels more professional then ubuntu, but I am trying to make it as user friendly.
It's been a while, I haven't used Linux since version 6 or 7, and at that time, Anaconda gave you a choice of which level of SELinux to install - as I remember, I chose the "relaxed" version... but this time, with Version 11, I was not given any choice of which level of SELinux to use. I was automatically forced into a USER (drone) account with no administrative or limited administrative capabilities. I have my administrative name and password I assigned during the Anaconda install...but I don't know how to get into the superuser or root account and execute it so that I have full, unvarnished permission to do as I please on MY machine.
First of all, let me explain - This is MY computer and I can do with it exactly as I want. I am the Aministrator and I am the one and only OWNER of this machine. Therefore, I should have automatic access to SuperUser, and if I corrupt something, that is my fault...and its my machine. Cutting through the bull, I would like someone on here to just plain tell me, without cryptic remarks, to give me a step-by-step - The is a HOW TO to access the superuser account, name and password. And - this is HOW TO create a ROOT account with superuser permissions. What I need is a one-two-three this-is-how-to-do-it.
If I mess things up, I merely reinstall Fedora again and start from scratch. I don't care if I screw things up accidentally. What does irritate me is being forced to have a "drone" account on my machine that I own, without even asking me, what I wanted..
I can't open files with anything using Dolphin as superuser. For example with Kate:
Code:
KDEinit cannot launch /usr/bin/kate
Also, I can't launch kwrite or kate as root per below:
Code:
john@vostro:~> su
Password:
vostro:/home/john # kate
kate(3007): Session bus not found
[Code]....
I have installed OpenSUSE 11.4 using the Gnome Live USB version, and I have updated to Gnome 3.I use a USB CDMA modem which is not detected automatically (it never did).after reading a lot of forums regarding similar issues I have been able to solve my problem, I have to run this script after login, modprobe usbserial vendor=0X05c6 product=0x00a0as RootI was wondering is there anyway that this script runs automatically at start up.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've got a triple boot system here (W7,XP,OpenSUSE 11.1). Several windows partitions are mounted as part of the standard opensuse install. I can write to them from opensuse only when I am superuser. I suspect I need to tweak mtab? Here is my ftab followed by mtab: Any ideas?
++++ etc/ftab +++++
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31500341AS_9VS2CGVN-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31500341AS_9VS2CGVN-part6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31500341AS_9VS2CGVN-part7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
[code]....
I get tired of the ugly default GNOME theme that rears its head when I'm doing something as superuser. I understand why it's desirable for these windows with elevated privileges to look different, but I'd like to choose a different theme.
So... what terminal command do I run to bring up the Appearance window? My thought is if I simply run it with "sudo", any changes made would affect the appearance of future elevated-privilege windows. Does that sound right, or am I out in left field?
I have a dual boot machine and recently did a fresh install of 10.4. It no longer asks for a password to access the Windows partition and I full access to it. This seems insecure to me and was wondering if someone else came across this. I thought I saw this topic discussed before but I can not seem to find it now. Is this a bug or a new unpleasant feature?I don't think it makes a difference but I do have a separate encrypted home partition on this fresh install. I have also done two fresh installs. (Well three...once testing out KDE but didn't try the Win partition. )
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am currently running Lucid 10.04(lts) on a dual boot with windows xp. What i am looking for is some guidance on how to re-install the requirement for a password when trying to mount the xp partition as this was standard in Jaunty and i liked it like that as my computer is often open for many hours at work. Yeh i know i can lock the screen but sometimes other people need to use my computer.
View 6 Replies View Related... when I tried to download an adobe flash player, this linux windows pops up saying that I should enter a password. When I entered a password(which was the password I used to log into my ubuntu linux operating system on my ibm think laptop), it says that the password is incorrect. I was under the assumption that the password that is required to download online applications and software like adobe(sudo password?) and the password that is required to log onto my operating system were the same passwords. What should I do to change the password that is needed to download online applications? I want to keep the password that is required to log onto my OS the same since I know that password.
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