Security :: How To Retrieve Admin Password
Jan 25, 2011I have created 2 in Linux.One is admin and other is Guest.But I forgot my admin password.ow to retrieve or change the admin password?
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Ubuntu Security :: Root Password To Make Admin Printer Changes?
Jan 23, 2010I try to install my printer again after reinstall ubuntu 9.04. ("downgraded from 9.10"). Instead of asking for the local-user-login password, as it does for other system changes, it asks for a root password that I never had. What happened? How can I set this right?I made a printscreen.
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Apr 23, 2010I thought these were the same password?In-fact, they WERE the same password on the set-up I currently have.But now, weirdly, I can log in fine but I the exact same password is not using in order to perform admin tasks.I've tried a recovery mode, console, and then "password (username)" in order to reset the password.This does reset the password I need to use to log in, but the password still does not work for performing admin tasks
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Nov 11, 2010After my windows computer died of old age, I was given this computer. It has Linux Mint 9 Isadora on it. I am trying to learn how to use it. The update and other functions are locked out with a password. Is it possible to change it without reinstalling the entire Os.
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Apr 29, 2010how to retrieve lost password to file server storage) running Samba 3.0.14a-Debian? Access to file server from windows PCs via LAN , no direct access.Where the password stored there and how to retrieve?
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Mar 3, 2010retrieve the root password in linux. Need it as early as possible.
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Aug 3, 2010I just took a job and the admin password for the AFS is missing. How do I find/reset this password? I have the root password for the machine it is installed on.
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Mar 11, 2010I recently decided to try and change my admin password on my usual default account (the one you have to type in, in order to do sudo e.t.c im guessing)a the user account option...and having entered my previous password correctly,t will not allow me to enter a new password, it just seems to hang, (i.e the working icon appears, but having waited a minute or twwo nothing seems to of happened..(cannot press the confirm button). Is there a way to reset the password so that i can set a new one, if i cannot change my own admin password, and i was working on a windows system, i would be screaming system compromise right now, but as its ubuntu, im sure theres a perfectly innocent explantion
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Apr 16, 2010I am using Ubuntu 9.10 (along with Win xp). I have to authenticate everytime I mount filesystem (My d: , e: drives in windows). Or to connect to the internet (I use mobile broadband) I have to authenticate, also if I have to install something from synaptics I have to authenticate. I know this is good for security but I am the only person using my computer , so is there any way out of this authentication business.
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Oct 3, 2010I've tried several installs via Windows with the latest RC of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Netbook et al, and I've encountered the same problem all over: every time an admin password is required, for example to install updates or new applications, I enter it, but then, the authentication window freezes, even though I've clicked on Confirm or pressed Enter to validate the password.
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Jan 10, 2011I have a friend who just recently got an old computer from a college. The college had been shut down for maybe 6 months and decided to sell all their equipment computer ETC. In that amount of time the college had forgotten the administrator passwords for all the computers. Therefore the computer can not be updated or upgraded to the latest version of Ubuntu.Is there anyway possible to get the administrator password so that I may update upgrade and install new necessary components for the computer?
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Feb 26, 2010I am not new to linux, but am to mysql. i run a website, on which i decided to put vpet, a virtual pet php thing. now in the instalation of this thing, it did not ask for an admin password. but it did come with a database. so i'm guessing the login is hidden in there. heres the question, i have phpmyadmin. how the heck do i read the database?
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May 26, 2010I admin my server by realvnc with a non-root account(webmaster). I forgot root password but just a webmaster user remote control.Is there any way to retrieve the root password without sitting front the server? (I work far away from my server.)OS: centos 4.5Kernel: 2.6.9
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Mar 15, 2011I installed Oracle database on LinuxI can only log in to Linux server by database userBut I forgot the root password and cannot log in by root.
View 4 Replies View RelatedDebian Configuration :: Default Admin Password For Ntop
Feb 1, 2016I installed it from the packages list and the eye candy has been good.
However, in trying to fix an error showing up in syslog
Feb 1 17:37:38 host ntop[30764]: **ERROR** Buffer too short @ dataFormat.c:144 (increase to at least 56) [230982 years, 187 days 7:107374]
I started looking at the configuration files; well attempted. It asks for a login. It isn't any user or root, but apparently is admin, but IO don't ever remember setting it.
Various web search suggests it is done at compile(downloaded compiled) /installation, but I have no recollection of entering any.
There is a Redhat/Centos wrinkle ntop -set-admin-passwd=password; but that puts out a lot of lines, then hangs and has no effect.
Note, despite message(old version of ntop), it is up todate in packages.
OpenSUSE :: Updates Not Installing - Get Prompted For Admin Password But Then Nothing Happens
Jan 19, 2011I have fresh install of SuSe11.2 64x My software updater applet tells me there are about 50 or so updates required. I check all and then click install, get prompted for admin password but then nothing happens except the software updater window closes and if I hover my mouse over the applet it tells me it is updating.
however hours later and nothing appears to have happened. If I click the updater applet all the selected updates still appear in the update window. I have added all the standard repos and have network connectivity. I'm a bit baffled here - it worked perfectly fine on my last 11.2 on the same machine.
OpenSUSE Install :: Changing Admin Password After Upgrade?
Mar 21, 2011I did an upgrade install. So, I didn't get the prompt to make one. How to change the admin password? I think I know how I can change my username and password.
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Jul 7, 2010I need to host a user directory and home directors on a Ubuntu 10.04 box. I've installed openLDAP and I can connect a mac to it. how to install the mac schema or add users etc to it. I can view the directory in Workgroup Manager on Mac OS X Server but I also dont know how to set the admin username or password.
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Jul 15, 2010How can I avoid typing a password on every admin action? example when i install a program.
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Dec 8, 2010When I go to "Software Sources..." in the Software Center, the screen dims bringing my attention to the password prompt. I find this quite aesthetically pleasing and am immediately aware that I cannot continue until I enter my password. This is the only time that the screen dims in this fashion when asking for my admin password. Is this correct? If not (or maybe even if it is), should this be considered one for the papercut ninjas?
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Jan 4, 2011I set an admin password for the bios of my dell inspiron e1505 laptop. I do know the password. Is there some way for me to delete the admin password so that I can access the BIOS settings without a password?
View 9 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Bash Script Launcher Not Asking For Admin Password
Jul 21, 2011I have no idea how to make a bash script but I'm trying. My bash script goes something like this:
#/bin/bash
sudo mkdir /media/5gb
sudo mount /dev/sdc3 /media/5gb
I made it executable, put in /usr/local/bin and updatedb. Then I made a launcher pointing to the bash script. The problem is, If I use the launcher, it never asks for your admin password so, the folder doesn't get created.
Ubuntu Networking :: Retrieve Saved Wireless Password?
Mar 12, 2011I have saved a wireless password on my ubuntu 10.10 and I connect to it everyday. The other day I wanted to pass it to my friend to use the connection but I couldn't find the saved password. So I checked some forums and I realized it should be possible to find the saved passwords under Systerm > Preferences > Passwords and encryption keys. Although I can only see one of my saved passwords, the other one is missing.
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Oct 22, 2010I have forgot the root password of opensuse server. How could I retrieve it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedDebian Configuration :: When User Is Admin Root Password Is Still Needed
May 7, 2015I'm using Debian Jessie Cinnamon right now. I've got 1 user account on my machine--fred--as well as root, of course. "fred" is an administrator, and many times that is enough for root priviledges, for example, I can install packages via apt or dpkg. However, I cannot access "Users and Groups", or install packages via GDebi, with my password. For that, I have to have the root password.
I know that it is possible to let the admin account handle everything and not even need root--for example, Mint and (I believe) Ubuntu do it this way. I don't know how, though.
Code: Select allgroups fred
fred : fred cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev lpadmin scanner bluetooth
I did disable the root account by Code: Select allsudo passwd -l root to see if it would make any change. Nothing different happened except that I now can't use GDebi or access "Users and Groups" since the root account and therefore password is inactivated. Not a big deal to get it back, though.
OpenSUSE Install :: Lost Admin (Root) Privilege Password
Feb 28, 2011I'm new to Linux (had some basic Unix experience in 1995 era). (Teenager) gave me HP2133 mini notebook running SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. Everything checks good (hardware and software), even wireless networking. Problem is she apparently created Admin/root password but says cannot remember. I cannot even set correct date time... yast is asking for root privilege:
Command: /sbin/yast2 time
Is there anything I can do to re-establish administrator privilege?
Ubuntu Networking :: Connect To My Wireless Network Without The Use Of An Admin Password?
Oct 18, 2010Is there a way i can setup my computer so i can connect to my wireless network without the use of an admin password? i personally feel that it wouldn't be a security risk of any sort to not require a password to connect to an ecrypted wireless connection.
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May 13, 2010I have set it up, but I'm not sure whether the admin username and password are set correctly. How do I confirm? Also, if someone has any links explaining the format of an LDIF file.
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Jan 11, 2010It seems that karmic has changed the behavior of Gnome's cpufreqselector, so that it requires root authority to make changes, and those changes don't persist after a reboot.
Is there a way to make changes persistent? Is there a way to let admin users change the setting without having to enter a password every time?
Ubuntu Installation :: No Admin Password But Can Do Its Tasks From Test-drive Disk / Fix It?
Feb 15, 2010A few weeks ago, I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Insprion 8600 as a dual boot to try out Ubuntu. I let the setup configure partitions for me. During the install, I was asked once for a password. Last week, Win XP would not boot up; that's OK as I was planning a re-partition and reinstall of both win and Ubuntu.
I wanted to get files off the NTFS partitions (I have one for win, one for the swap file and two more fore files etc.), so I wanted to mount the NTFS partitions. I was asked for a password for the administrator. My regular password, the only one I have set up, would not work. I tried rebooted two more times and still no luck with my only password.
However, I was able to boot up from the set-up disk and mount the NTFS partitions without a password. I was able to move all the files I needed to one partition that I plan to keep (I will reinstall win xp then back up those files on the separate partition).
A question and a comment...
1. How do I install Ubuntu so that I make sure I have the passwords to do administrative level things (like mounting a drive)?
2. Being able to do administrative work off the Ubuntu test-drive disk while being denied access after signing in seems like a security issue (unless I screwed up somewhere).