Ubuntu :: Can't Login As Root / Solution For This?
Mar 14, 2010PermitRootLogin is set to "yes" but I cannot login as root. Is there anything else to do?
View 6 RepliesPermitRootLogin is set to "yes" but I cannot login as root. Is there anything else to do?
View 6 RepliesHow to enable Root login...i cant copy or move something on the HDD...I have administrator rights and password for root but i cant change permissions for the HDD without login on root and root login are not allowed .
View 10 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install ubuntu on d partition i deleted, which now is "free space" but its giving me that error
So im guessing i have to click on add, what do what i click on? primary? beginning? end? ext 4 im guesing and which mount point?
Im installing it on d portition which i deleted and is now free space, i have windows 7 on c.
I have dual boot Windows/Ubuntu 9.10 and everything was running fine until recently when after booting to Ubuntu just showed me the system background image with mouse pointer and that was it - no login screen, nothing.
I tried swithing to console mode and logging in - it works fine, but swithing back to x just gives me the background image and the mouse pointer ( it is working though )
I've just installed phpmyadmin on my bioLinux. When the logo screen shows http://localhost/phpmyadmin, and I try to log in it appears: #1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server.
I've tried all possibilities. I install and reinstall it with the Synaptic Package manager, with and without password (using 'root' as username).
i am having problems with privileges i have created a new user with my name, but i cant get root privileges on it. i need the same privileges as the root profile.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI edited the passwd file to modify the default shell for root from bash to tcshnow when I try to login to root it gives me the following error:"su: /bin/tcsh : No such file or directory"
View 3 Replies View Relatedi just installed linux mandriva 2009. i set password for root and created a user account. when i try to login as root, after logging out as user, it does not allow me and gives the error "root logins are not allowed". even it does not show the root account. if i try to go to root from konsole terminal using su root, it allows to enter as a root but when i try to start the GUI with startx it gives error.not sure what to do and why i can't see my account in GUI mode
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just installed Fedora 12 on a laptop. I changed the default shell on the root account to /bin/tcsh and changed the runlevel to 3 and then rebooted. Now I can't login into the root account: it returns me immediately to the login prompt and I can't see any error message (the screen is cleared).Why is this happening?Can I boot into some sort of safe mode so I can undo my changes to the /etc/inittab and /etc/passwd file?I tried booting with a Live CD with the intention of mounting the filesystem and making the changes, but the new filesystem is a LVM and it won't let me mount it (or I don't know how to mount a Logical Volume).
View 3 Replies View RelatedI edited fstab to automatically mount my windows data partition on boot, but I screwed it up by not specifying the file system type, however that is not the problem, I was able to fix that easily. The problem was that when it failed to mount the partition, Debian automatically entered root and I guess that is to be expected in order for me to fix it, but I never configured a root password and it just gave me full root access without asking any password, not even my user password. I though that was strange so I set the root password and sure thing it asked me for the root password this time without automatically logging into root....
I then tried to lock the root account to see if it will ask me for a password or not, it did but of course I wasn't able to login as root because it was locked now and I was left with no way to access the system. I had to fix fstab from a live cd so that I can login normally as the user....
I didn't know what to search for or if that is the expected behavior if you don't set root password during installation, but it just seemed a bit strange to automatically enter root when you specifically disable root login during installation...
I want, when I boot up, to load and log-in automatically a default user. I get a login in screen with the option to login as root, I do not want this. How do disable the option to login to X as root and just load as me/default user?
View 9 Replies View Relatedwhen i login to openSUSE a window named login keyring appears and it asks me root password. it happens everytime when i login. how to fix this problem?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have found this link "Login Failed" message when logging in through RDP
I am suffering from exactly these symptoms. Can anyone suggest what the likely cause is? How would that bug/solution relate to my environment: openSUSE 11.3/xrdp 0.4.1-85.1?
And lastly, how can I find out if the update implied under "Additional Information" has happened?
when I booted the mouse was stuck & made the cube spin - other weird effects.I noticed this happens occasionally to a lesser extent but this time it rendered the system unusable.I managed to login somehow to older kernel.Turned off cube & problem gone but in the confusion I reverted xorg.config and now when I try to restore the backup it says I don't have permissions.Only root can restore the backup but I have no idea how to do this as its doesnt seem to be accepting the password.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUsing putty, if I login with my username and then run
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sudo su
I can enter to root's shell. However if I login with root username and enter the password (that password I used in sudo su), it asks for the password again. Seems that I can not login with root user.
i've installed Ubuntu many times before. one thing i can never understand is the root user. i was never ever asked to set the password for the root user during installation. and for some reason, maybe i ****ed up during installation of stuff or whatever, i will no longer be able to login to root. it will say my password is incorrect.WHY CAN'T MY ACCOUNT BE THE HIGHEST ADMIN???very pissed off right now as this is the 2nd time i'm reinstalling my Ubuntu. (first time was because i might have ****ed the uninstallation of MySQL. now it's wrong root password BS)
View 7 Replies View Relatedhow i know am in root user or another user? how to login as root user? sudo passwd root when i typed in termninal am getting this error pa1 is not in the sudoers file.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've recently installed 64bit version of ubuntu 9.10 but the GDMsetup doesn't seem to be working as it was in 9.04 i mean to say when you type gdmsetup at console the login window pops up where i can check the check-box "Allow local administrator log in" under security tab. to enable login as root. since it is not working i've to type password every time when i install a package or create a folder in root directory or mount a drive which is quite irritating how can i login as root in gui mode etc... also is there some syntax which i can put into /etc/gdm/custom.conf so i can log in as root....
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a new Centos 5 installation that does not allow me to login as a regular user. I get the following message when I try to login with any user different to root:localuser: [user_name] being added to access control listNo profile has been found for user "[user_name]"I have been looking around and haven't found any clue as to how to solve this.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI have logged on as chris; sudo su to get root access. I have done:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
my previous versions of ubuntu have been removed from the grub menu.I can not now log on as chris and sudo su to root from ssh. It says I am missing from sudoers file.Is there an easy way to fix as I can not access the master screen and will have to talk my wife through the changes required.
I was wondering if you could log in as root at the login menu instead of the terminal?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI hate my touchpad when my mouse is plugged in, and because of a bug in the alps touchpad that the system does not shut off the touchpad when I am typing. and syndaemon does not work either. So I found this script that I modified and it works like a champ when run as sudo from a command line, but I can not get it work from root crontab with the "@reboot" and it does not work with
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sudo update-rc.d killtouchpad start 30 2 3 4 5 . stop 70 0 1 6 .
here is the script.
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#!/bin/bash
#
# Toggle touchpad on and off
[Code]....
It's my personal computer, no other users, no one else in the house. I'm behind a separate stand alone firewall (Checkpoint device). I'm the admin on my machine and I'm going to enter sudo, or login as root, every time I need it anyway.
There's no way that having to switch to root is going to make me stop and think about what I'm getting ready to do. In fact it's quite the opposite. If I'm in the midst of troubleshooting, I'm preparing to enter a command that I think is going to work, and I get "Permission denied"... The aggravation is more likely to reduce my logical thinking, and I'll immediately switch to root and type it anyway.
I DO understand the rational of setting users (even admin users) to a lower permission level. However I don't understand the lack of a command to make a user PERMANENTLY root equivilent. Switching back and forth is a waste of time. AND it means that I now have to deal with two home directories... /root and /home/user. Having to type sudo, or su to switch to root, does not protect my system. It only aggravates.
My computer won't load the login. How do I load the root of the computer to bypass this freeze? How do I force it to give me the login screen? It only displays the computer's name and ubuntu's version 10.10. There are no links at the bottom to follow.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there anyway to have a different password for login and root? For example, my account is Bratu. I want a login password: ABCD and my root password: EFG
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to do
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sudo su root
The login is successful without prompting a password. This is dangerous. How am I going to avoid/disable this?
I can login as root into GUI (X, openbox). But, I found some persons said that with debian one cannot login as root to desktop (GUI).
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I installed debian squeeze with linux and initrd.gz for i386 using internet. At the tasksel, I uncheck all the entries. After finishing the installation, I rebooted and installed xorg, iceweasel, iceweasel-l10n-ja, menu, menu-l10n, alsa, openbox, obconf, scim-anthy, pcmanfm, leafpad, sux, and so on. I know that root login to GUI is not so secure and should not be done.
I notice that by default KDM lets you login as root, yet on GDM is disable. How can I enable GDM to let me login as root, and how to I disable the feature on KDM?
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