Ubuntu :: Change Individual Users' DE Choice?
May 18, 2011While I'm a fan of Gnome, I'd prefer if the user "kids" logs in as KDE by default. Is there any way to toggle which desktop environment it automatically logs in to?
View 1 RepliesWhile I'm a fan of Gnome, I'd prefer if the user "kids" logs in as KDE by default. Is there any way to toggle which desktop environment it automatically logs in to?
View 1 RepliesI am wanting to startup some programs when I first login with a certain user, but I don't like using KDEs builtin autorun system as I have to go through menuust to edit my programs. Is there not a rc.local for each home directory
View 5 Replies View Relatedhow to lock down individual users from setting a proxy server. Its a server not a WS so it should never go to the internet. I want to lock down the system side and firefox 5 settings.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm actually asking this on behalf of a friend but I was wondering if there was a way to change individual backgrounds on each window (the ones in the bottom right hand corner) instead of the background changing for all of them
View 2 Replies View Relatedi have an ntfs mount that i wish to change permissions of individual directories.i have mounted many ntfs volumes successfully, mounting is not the issue. the issue is that when mounting, i need to specify 'blanket' permissions, owner, group etc. i have no idea how to change permissions for individual folders.
View 2 Replies View RelatedYesterday I installed on my laptop (an IBM Thinkpad T42) "virt manager" using the Synaptic Package Manager. I'm running Karmic.
As part of the installation, SPM had me reboot the computer (which is dual-booted with Windows XP, which I use less than 1% of the time). The new GRUB screen came up showing two new initial lines, the first 2 of the following 4 lines:Ubuntu,
Linux 2.6.31-19-generic-pae
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-19-generic-pae (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-19-generic
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-19-generic (recovery mode)
When I allow the default choice of the first line to prevail, Ubuntu boots up into a condition in which the Wireless Network Connection fails to open, and in which nothing I've been able to think of makes it open.
If, instead, I scroll down to the third line (which was the initial default choice line, i.e., the default choice line prior to the "virt manager" installation), Ubuntu boots up into a condition in which the Wireless Network Connection operates as usual, viz., immediately.
Scrolling down works, but it would be better, it seems to me, to return to the condition in which the current line 3 either becomes line 1 or else becomes the default bootup choice.
I've used SPM to uninstall "virt manager", but the 2 new intial lines in the GRUB options remain. I understand that with Karmic's version of GRUB, viz., GRUB-2, it is no longer possible to change the bootup menu choices easily.
how I can either eliminate the first 2 lines in my current GRUB screen, or make line 3 the default choice?
I am using squid proxy server for sharing Internet in my internal network. I would like to know that how can I check the browsing history by individual users web surfing history by their IP addresses?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow do I change the default OS on grub, and adding more time to make my choice?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI tried to do my parents a favor by installing Ubuntu 9.10 alongside WinXP on their PC -- same configuration I have on my desktop at home. The install went fine, but since I made a poor buying decision on purchasing a MSI motherboard in the past, Ubuntu immediately crashes after boot (other MSI board users having the same issue, no help from MSI).
The computer tries to boot Ubuntu by default unless something else is selected from the boot menu. How do I change the boot preference from default (choice 0) to WinXP? I tried manually changing this (editing the grub.cfg file), but the file said not to edit, that it's generated by something else...How do I have WinXP load by default instead of the broken Ubuntu?
My GDM screen went to a default screen (my background colour with plain lines). when i go to admin>login screen it's just giving me options to change how many users are available on the gdm. i can't seem to find the manager to change it. running 9.10 on a toshiba satellite.noob here so please let me know if i should provide more details!
View 3 Replies View RelatedChange Owner to Everyone, All Users, or *
How do I change the owner of a folder to Everyone?
In Windows, I can just right click folder > Properties > Security > Edit... > Add... > Advanced... > Find Now > Select "Everyone" > OK > OK > Set Everyone permissions > OK > OK. ^ See, so easy!
Every time I login or restart, I have to launch these commands:
Code:
I need to access the /var/spool/cups/ spool folder, but having to re-do that is so annoying.
Is it possible to completely disable the password change for users accounts in linux?? (I don't mind account lock)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm setting up an application server for a small organization using Ubuntu 10.04 and LTSP. We built a machine with a quad core Athlon II, got a Gigabit swtich, and a couple Gigabit ethernet cards. I burned gPXE into a couple EPROMs and turned their old PIII and Duron systems into thin clients.
So far so good.
Now, I'm trying to set up a shared directory that two users in the same group can both read and write. Let's call it "/home/shared". I want to set UMASK to 007, so that by default, files are created readable and writable by user and group, with no permissions for anybody else. I changed a line in "/etc/profile" from "umask 022" to "umask 007". After rebooting the app server, the umask does appear to be 007 when you log in at the console. However, it doesn't seem to affect the terminals.
So I figured I needed to change it in "/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/profile". vi helped me out with that. Didn't make a difference in the terminals. Ok, I need to rebuild the image, so I did an "ltsp-update-image" and rebooted the terminal. umask is still 022. ???
I changed UMASK in "/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/login.defs" and rebuilt the image. No change. ??? I really don't understand why this isn't working.
How can I change the UMASK for users who log in on an LTSP terminal?
Can someone tell me if it is possible to change the order in which users' names appear in the GDM login screen? And if so, how to change it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm looking to customize the environment for new users by changing the items in the GNOME menu, change the panel layout, add some shortcuts, and do a few other things. I looked in /etc/skel and there doesn't seem to be anything GNOME related in there; I also tried to put .gconf, .gconfd and .gnome2 from my home directory into /etc/skel and that didn't do what I wanted.
View 5 Replies View Relatedhow to change when running command "adduser" or "useradd" the placement of the users home directory. Have tried editing the /etc/default/useradd file with no results.
I want it to be placed in /var/www And I would also want to know how more folders and files can be created in the home directory automatically.
Right i did a clean install of Fc15 and used a custom layout with separate /home partition. when it all installed It had created /home in the /root partition. so I then moved the /home directory to the partition I intended, added the relevant fstab entries and re granted permissions etc to the relevant files. All done with a live cd.
the problem is when i rebooted all settings worked as the partitions mounted with all the /home directories and all my user settings are in tact but when i click home in KDE's kick off it tried to open root? So all im wondering is how could i change the default /home back to my user account? as all i seem to find online is how to specify a /home with useradd
I'm looking for a manner to prevent users from changing the desktop background/wallpaper and all other gnome configuration with booth Ubuntu and Kubuntu. This too (Abraxis, some years ago, have same my problem) [URL] do not solve the problem, for example if I change whit chown (*) own and group of this file to root /.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml, at the next reboot file return in the previous state. (I don't like Pessulus).
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chown root:root %gconf.xml
chmod 644 %gconf.xml
At the reboot file change automatically owner to "student", I don't know why?
I'm using opensuse and i'm trying that users cannot change his own password (mantaining /bin/bash users active). Do you know how can I do it?
View 10 Replies View Relatedregarding the file permissions of /etc/passwd in fact it has permissions like rw-r--r--so it says others have only read only permissions but my questions is if others has read only permissions on /etc/passwd file.how they are able to change their password i.e others are able to change their passwords then how it is possible.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI got myself curious on the possibility to change user's permission to any command, or at least giving other users some command line "power".
It all started a few days ago, when another user here, had a problem so that the computer wasn't answering.
So, after waiting a while, chose to hit the Reset button and start the computer again.
Considering this situation, I thought myself that it would have been better to restart the computer, through command line, on any terminal (F1-F6). Anyway, this user is no administrator, thus wouldn't have permission to use the code...
So, is it possible to let other users to use such commands, in order to safe rebooting the system, without logging as root?
How to allow users to change their password in chrooted ssh as long as the modifications in the shadow file in the chrooted environment will not be applied on the system itself ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy company has policy that user accounts expire once a month and they also get locked out if they re-try login more than 3 times (pam_tally). It gets very annoying every time they come and ask to get password changed.How do I let users change their own password? Also let the system email them every day for two weeks before password expiration and until they change their password?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIt 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?
I have squid server running FC7. i have created a ncsa authentication for windows user to use internet through squid proxy.
My problem is that the each created user should be able to change their password.
- Is there a way, using NCSA authentication, to allow users to change their passwords?
- Is there a way to use windows AD password for squid authentication. if so how?
I have the following problem and tried (almost) anything to fix it but without a full success.
We're running a server with CentOS 5.4. Every night a logwatch report is send. These mails are rejected by our mailserver because some invalid details. These mails are send to local user root which is redirected to another external mail address with /etc/aliases.
At first the mail was send from root@localhost.localdomain to root@localhost.localdomain. As you can imagine, our mailserver rejected this because the localhost.localdomain parts. So I changed the sendmail config with these options:
Code:
dnl EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)
MASQUERADE_AS(`domainA.com')
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`slave02.domainA.com')
This solved my problem partially: Mail is now coming from root@domainA.com (which is OK), but is send to root@slave02.domainA.com (slave02 is the local hostname), which is not OK. I tried everything I could find to change that last part to, but nothing seems to work.
I have a MP3 player which is owned by Root. I have tried the following: in terminal - chown as both my usual log-in and root operation not permitted. I ran chown as both su, root, and myself. In Nautilus - I can't change any of the file attributes again opening it as any of the users above. I used to be able to copy files over to the MP3 player but not the Sandisk but not I can't copy or do anything to the files on both.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using squid + dansguardian for web and content filtering. And it is working fine. I am forcing users to use proxy through browser configuration. Now I am planning to add another layer to controlling access using ncsa_auth program. I know it is not the most secured but I am fine with it. Plain passwords are fine with me.
I will be giving users some default passwords but I want some program for allowing users to change the passwords for the respective users if they want. Is there any perl script or something web based for the purpose that anyone is using or know of?
I want to create a webpage where users can change their samba password and before I jump to PHP code i want to write perl code that can be called in php code.I have created two file 1. main.pl - this script actually switch user and call passwd.pl2. passwd.pl - this is actually changes the password {main.pl}
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $username = $ARGV[0];
my $oldpass = $ARGV[1];
[code]....
I would like to make LXDE the default desktop for ALL USERS on my LTSP clients. There are about 60 users so far.On my server, LXDE is default for everyone.But on the clients, each user has to change to LXDE individually. How can I make LXDE default on all clients?I've been looking through the forums all day, but could not find an answer to this question, so hopefully we can get an answer and my title will help others.
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