When I boot from a live USB, it automatically logs in as the live user. I don't want that. I want to log in as a real user, without having to log out of the live user session first.I looked at all the options under system > administration > users&groups. Nothing seems applicable.PS, I did already create the real user and it's working fine. I just have to log out before I can log in as the right user.
I can't seem to find this anywhere. I have burned Debian 5.06 for i386 and trying to login when running the live cd. What is the username and password to get in?
edit.... I found 'user' and 'live' but they don't work.
I have a Live install of ubuntu 10.04 on a USB drive which is really handy. I've changed some things around so it's just how I like it.However, if for example I'm using a computer running windows, and I plug this USB stick in, a popup appears asking me if I want to reformat the drive. I'd much rather not have this appear because an accidental misclick would make me have to do all the work of reinstalling/customizing my USB.
I know how to turn of the popup for a particular machine, but I was wondering if it's possible to deny permissions to format the USB if it's plugged into any computer. Best case scenario would be if you were to plug the usb into any computer and click 'format' you would get a message prompting for a password first (not the one for the computer, one relative to the USB) or something like that.
I configured my flash drive to be bootable using the gui startup disk creator, and it's working pretty well for me, but every time it boots, it pops up the dialog where you have two options, to use the live usb mode or to install. Is there any way to bypass that prompt and just go straight to the live usb mode?
Is there some file I can alter on the Live CD image that will make Ubuntu not automatically eject the drive tray when I shut down from a live CD session?
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/etc/rc0.d/S89casper is a link though, so I just edited the file it points to (/etc/init.d/casper) -- seems to be working. I merge a modified "casper" at every boot, next time I build a Remastersys, I'll try to make it permanent.
I have a rehearsal studio in which I play some serious brutal pwnage Heavy metal.And of course my fellow metal-heads need a computer so we can mix our music and such. So I build us a scrap PC and installed Linux Ubuntu 10.10. I know that these head banging friends of mine will eventually begin installing a lot of crappy software on it. So I made an Admin account for myself and a restricted one for them.
There might be times when they really need to install something in my absence, so I've decided to make an open Live CD for them to have, so they can have some of their own stuff on it. As you might know, when you boot on this CD you can choose between installing Linux Ubuntu or "trying it" What I want to do is that I want them to use the try- thingy so they wont erase the disk over and over. Of course I can just tell them not to install the actually operative. there's a way to disable the "Install" button in some config file or something Similar.
I have searched for hours and have found nothing that works. Its just amazing that I have not destroyed my laptop yet. What I want to do is keep my child off the net under his user account. I have Karmic installed currently. I have tried adding an iptables rule: sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -o eth0 -m owner --uid-owner test -j REJECT
That does not work. So then I tried to disable the network card for just one account... no go.I can only stop access totally for both users which doesn't work for me very well. No method gives me what I need. I want a way so I can login and use the computer normally AND an account he can login to and use but with no web.
is there any possible way to hide currently running processes from an user? This means I do not want him to know about what programs/processes does any other user but him run. In short words if that user runs 'ps -aux' he should get only his processes.
for security reasons,I want to disable shutdown for normal user, but the post here does not help me. It is because when I open the /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf I just saw a blank file. I use the 9.10 version.
I have a Lucid Ubuntu installed on my home PC with two user accounts, AmHero and simple. I would like to have all internet access disabled when my kids login with the 'simple' userid. And yes, internet should work when I login using AmHero. I tried this:
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..but this does not work and gives some errors on the terminal.
I can paste the errors, though I am not sure this will even work as I found this in an old post.
i created a user apache in group apache and by useradd and groupadd command. i am working on a user called server and group is also server. The login screen shows both the users apache and server. My concern is that if sombody has the password to the username apache, hecan login. How do you disable user apache on the login screen so that it only shows user server.
I want to refuse access for some users to usb pen and audio. In previous releases (debian, ubuntu , debian-based ..) , it is enough to remove the user from the group.
that is in /etc/group audio:x:29:bela plugdev:x:46:bela,geol
with theses lines : bela can heard sound, but not geol, for bela and geol the usb pen is automatically mounted. But not for nobody else. It is NOT the case in the new release, I mean, even if I remove a user from the plugdev group, the usb pen is automatically mounted for that user.
Once again, nobody seems to understand security properly when they decide to add nifty new features. After upgrading to 10.04 from 9.10, I now have a listing of all the user accounts under "Switch from" when I go the the logout menu at the upper right side of the task bar. This is a terrible security hole that should never have been allowed in the first place, and is just as annoying as the default behavior of listing all the user accounts on the login screen.
just started using Debian today and I would like to know how can I disable the user acount password, I am the only user on this computer so I would like it to boot strait into my account.
I'd like to set up a restricted guest account which is not allowed to access any network interfaces. In particular, I don't want that user to access the internet either directly or through some network proxy, but I'd like my own account to still have normal internet access. How do I disable all network services for a particular account without affecting other accounts?
I don't want people to use my machine without my presence since I have a lot of cookies and files stored on this machine. So I hope each time the system starts it shows login window and asks for account/pwd. How can I do it?
I am looking for a way to deny telnet and ssh to one specific user. So far I've only tested with telnet and my attempts have been limited to various hosts.deny entries:
None of these work. The only thing I've found that does work is:in.telnetd : IP_addressBut this is only a semi-viable solution because we will soon have multiple logins for the one username from different servers and sub-nets. Ideally, I'd like to be able to deny telnet and ssh access to this username regardless of where the login originates. I suppose it would be possible to specify each server IP, but that'll be a bear to maintain
if I create a User in linux with useradd command useradd -s /bin/bash -d /home/testuser testuser
How can I make it such that he cannot run "ls" command when he FTPs into the server using the username/passwd I setup.I would not mind disabling "ls" for SSh or FTP as long as user is unable to list all files in the home directory and is only able to use FTP commands like GET, PUT, RENAME etc... Dont want them to have DELETE permission also...in this folder. This user will only be used for FTP...how can I enforce the above controls.
I have written a device driver and I would like to disable an interrupt. In kernel space there is a function called "disable_irq(int irq)", but, is it possible to do it from user space?
I need to access some things in "documents and settings" folders (my windows xp crashed). I believe I need to be root user in linux to do this. I am running a ubuntu linux live (uninstalled) cd. I am new to linux and I do not know if this is even possible. I want to copy some things from documents and settings folder to an external drive (as backup) but I cannot access them as things are now (linux gives me an error when I try) but I would like to do it in gui so I can physically "see" everything and look through it.
my linux system doesn't have X only console login possible. i would like to deny all user to login from any sources, local machine, remote console (putty, winscp) etc. except root.
i've found something about /etc/security/access.conf and i've put:
+ : root : ALL - : ALL : ALL
but still users other then root are able to login (via putty for example).