I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and I just installed mythtv to turn it into a PVR. However now I have to type my root password everytime I click reboot. I was thinking maybe it was a user group thing but I couldn't find anything.
View 1 RepliesI am using RHEL 5.4 my root password is getting reset after every reboot.every time i had to change the password from kernel to access the root.i am unable to find the where the problem is.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedEvery time I invoke gedit from the root terminal I get:-
[AnOther@FSLServer ~]$ su
Password:
[root@FSLServer AnOther]# gedit
(gedit:6447): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
followed by 33 occurrences of:-
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See [URL]. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)gedit opens fine but it seems really odd. My exposure to linux is not vast but this has never happened before Fedora12 It doesn't happen if I just use the terminal as an ordinary user.It also has nothing to do with the Bad & Ugly Gstreamer plugins as this happened from the moment the system was installed from the DVD and before the plugins were loaded even after removing them and rebooting I still get the ream of GConf errors if I start Gedit after su,
When I installed the OS, I wasn't prompted to set the root password. Is this a bug, or did my install hose up?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm really new to Linux so this will probably sound like a pretty naive question to most users, but how do you change the root password?To install Java, I have to type # su into Terminal,which then asks for the password.What's weird is that when I start typing a password, no characters show up. I don't know if this is supposed to happen or not.I've found a bunch of different sites on the Internet that explain how to change the root password, but none of them seem to work for my specific work station.
I've got Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. In the GRUB boot menu, I can choose to boot normal or in recovery mode (I'm led to believe older versions don't have this option).I've tried typing # sudo passwrd into Terminal, but I already have a root password set up apparently, so I can't change it there.
I no longer have access to my root desktop. On a session I attempted to change the root username but i apparently assigned it a wrong directory that does not exist. When I rebooted with my new root username, i was instead recognised as a simple user (no root privileges). I tried the console to change to "old" root but root password is not accepted and there is no way to access to sudoer files. it seems that inserting a new username requires root privileges and i am back to square one. Simply logging with old root username and password after restart gives me a blank screen with nothing on it and cannot even reboot.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI am an absolute Linux Beginner who is being required to do a bit of admin work because the boss just fired the old linux admin. Unfortunately, one of our employees cannot remember her password to her email account and as such I need to reset it on our linux server.What I want to check is that this email account is actually a linux user account and I simply will reset the password for it using the passwd command from the root login. Is that correct?
View 1 Replies View RelatedA friend of mine has told me to set a root password and use root (f.e. switching to su in terminal and work with root rights instead).Is there any way to unset the root password? I know how to use sudo now.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI was trying to edit a file requiring root permissions, so I used sudo. I typed the root password and it failed. This happened three times, and the process was ended. I then logged in as root (su) and was able to navigate to the file and make changes as root. Am I missing something? How would I edit the sudoers file such that this password would work? Or is there another way to log in to the sudo group to make these changes? How do I set sudo passwords?
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu is installed in dual boot in my machine. I created only one user and unfortunately I forgot the password. is there anyway to recover this password or better have the root password?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedAt the RHEL prompt, I entered the standard user's username/password combo. Linux displays a message box stating:"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator."Next, I entered "root" in the username field and entered the root password (which expired also--keep in mind that passwords are set to expire after x days). Linux displays a message box stating:"You are required to change your password immediately (password aged)."When prompted to "Enter current UNIX password", I entered the new password (was that the right thing to do?); Linux displays a message box stating:"The change of the authentication token failed. Please try again later or contact the system administrator."I rebooted the system and got into command line mode; somehow I logged in as "root" (don't know exactly how, but needed to change the password there). At the "#" prompt, I type "passwd root"; Linux displays the message "Changing password for user root", followed by the message "passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered.
View 4 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 found this on Bee's website. For more info on this exploit there are links there:[URl]..All you have to do in Fedora 13 is enter the following lines in a shell as normal user:
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I don't think this can be considered solely an "upstream" problem, because I first tried it in Arch using the same version of glibc, and the final command causes both gnome-terminal and xterm windows to disappear.
I am trying to log into a server with a particular account. Let's say I don't know the password for that account. Can I do this using ssh? I am wondering if it is possible to do it in one command, instead of logging in as root and running su.
View 4 Replies View RelatedEverytime I reboot Ubuntu, I have to run a sudo command. The vmware virtual network card is only accessible by root. I need normal users to be able to use it, after giving it proper permissions with chmod everybody is happy, until I reboot, then the device is recreated/reset to only root having access to it.
After reboot:
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ls -l /dev|grep vm
Quote:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 56 2011-08-14 06:06 vmci
crw------- 1 root root 10, 165 2011-08-14 06:06 vmmon
crw------- 1 root root 119, 0 2011-08-14 06:06 vmnet0
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I need to be able to script that command somehow... however, it needs to be a sudo command, and I don't want to have to enter the root password after a reboot. I need anyone to be able to pull the plug on the server and turn it back on and for it to work without my interaction everytime it is rebooted.
I want b able to recover or reset the password that i lost. I have ubunto installed with windows vista. I used the following link for guidance: [URL].. tried recovery mode in grub it always asks me the same thing:"Give root password for maintenance". I also tried to edit and boot the kernel unfortunately it did not work. So i never have a prompt, it still asks me for the password.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu boots normally, and the login screen appears. When I press the 'g'-keybutton (the first letter op my password), the system complete reboots. Pressing the 'q' does not cause a reboot. Filling out my password using the onscreen keyboard goes OK. After logging in (using the onscreen keyboard method), I can just press the G without problems, and the system is stable.
View 3 Replies View RelatedStrange thing happend two days ago. I just wanted to reboot my computer and now I'm no longer able to boot o0. My system is runnig with a full encryption with luks/cryptsetup. I'm using a passphrase to unlock my first partition and it will unlock the others by itself. So far so good. But now it doesnt work anymore... I'm not sure what I did before, but what I know, I didn't change anything! about cryptsetup. I did only a little "update" with the recommended packages from the repositories (guess only 4-5 updated)
I already checked with live cd and same thing there. Not able to unlock any device (what seems strange to me, cause there are 4 of them and all corrupted at the same time...?)
I always get the error message: unlock failed, bad password or options? (on boot) Command failed: No key available with this passphrase (live cd)
First thing I did was checking wheter all modules are loaded:
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
sha256_generic 11580 0
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I'm doing a project in Unix version Ubuntu 10.04. I'm doing an standalone app using C++(Qcreator) and GMT(generic mapping tool) so i need help in the following: how to invoke any extension files using C++?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am new to Linux, I had Just Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on y desktop PC, the installation is completed ok, while installation process, RHEL ask me for the root password and I had entered my password, now after the installation is finished and my PC Reboot, RHEL asks me Username, Now here I am confused, while installing RHEL it had only asked me the Password, now what is the username for RHEL? One more thing I would like to ask, I had one more Hard Disk Drive of 80GB and on it I had installed Windows XP, now I want to Dual boot Windows XP and RHEL, can I do it from two different OS installed in two different Hard Disk Drives, If yes Please Provide Procedure.
View 11 Replies View Relatedwhen i press Alt+F2 then type "r" it rebuilds the gnome shell but when i do this twice it crashs with "oops something has gone bad" or similar to it. i press Alt+F2 then type "lg" to see what is the problem and in the error tab there is "Error : Error invoking Gio.make_directory_with_parents Cannot create directory : filed already exist".
View 6 Replies View RelatedI need to invoke one package namely "Size aware scheduling" in advanced version of NS2.34. In net they have given steps for installing it in older version NS2.18b. i have attached url for that package download. I followed the same steps as they said in note but couldnt install it NS2.34.
[URL]
1st url shows how the package work. second url shows from where the package should be downloaded and how to install it and all.
My server is opensuse 11.1 I recently wrote a small script to quickly shut down or reboot my server (I needed this because I need to close an application manually before shutting down. The shutdown line in the script was: /sbin/shutdown -r now When I tested the script (as root) from the console terminal, It worked just fine but after reboot strange things started to happen if I logged in as root - while the mouse works, the keyboard freezes (rebooting the server does not help). While I can still use console terminal, if I try to start any application that requires root permission or log in as root from my sftp client then I will get an error on the server that says; broadcast message from root (time & date), the system is going down for reboot now! I have since commented out level 6 in my inittab, so that now when root sends a reboot signal and It shows the message about going to reboot, it does not actually go into reboot anymore because of the commented out line but that is ofcourse not an healthy way to go about it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a signal handler in my tool, which is registered and used between some particular interval (i am using timer). Now this signal handler should NOT allow any other handler to be registered or invoked after this handler is once registered. Is there any way to accomplish this?
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Trying to invoke perl inside ksh script.
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