Ubuntu :: Get User Full Name In Bash?
Feb 7, 2011Is there a command in bash which would allow you to list all users along with their full names?
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Ubuntu :: Exit Full Screen Bash In VIrtual Machine
Aug 28, 2010I'm running Ubuntu with Sun Virtual Macine on my Mac OSX and I have two problems.Somhow I have managed to get the Ubuntu screen to go completely black with a bash command line in the centre of it and the characters: "tty6" at the top of it. How do I exit this??Also I have a file on this virtual machine. Does anyone know how i would put this on my mac without the use of a Pen drive?
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: 10.04 - Changing Full Name Of User
May 2, 2010Earlier this morning I made my girlfriend an account on my Ubuntu desktop, I entered all the information, (username, full name etc.) and it worked fine. When I went to GDM I noticed that it displays both her full name, and username, but I seem to have my first name only as both my full name and user name (it just says "luke" twice).
I hadn't really paid attention to this before, but now it looked really odd with my girlfriend's full name, but only my first name. So I went to change it. Where to do that? I tried System->Preferences->About Me and System->Administration->Users and Groups, but I can't see "Full name" anywhere. In the end I used chfn on the command line to do it, but surely Ubuntu 10.04 isn't missing graphical a way to change a users full name is it?
Ubuntu :: Way To Add My Full Name To My User Account?
Jan 11, 2011Is there a way to add my full name to my user account?
I see how to add a user with a full name using:
Code:
And I've seen that if I delete my user account, and create a new one with the same UID/GID, that it would have access to my files.
Ubuntu :: How To Check That User Have Full Permissions
Mar 1, 2010How can check that I have full permissions on anything should I set my self as root? There are a lot of files it said your not the owner so you can't change but if I'm not the owner then who is?
View 9 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Share / To 1 User With Full Control Permissions?
Jan 4, 2011I have a Ubuntu 10.10 server and I would like to have full access to / from my Windows 7 box so I can modify config files and such.
I have already installed Samba and created a local user on the server for myself.
I am at the point where I need to create the share to / and give my user read/write to it.
Additionally if possible I would like for it to be a hidden share for additional security.
Ubuntu Installation :: Playing Video In Full Screen Logs User Out
May 1, 2011When I try to play a video in vlc, totem or banshee, it immediately logs me out. Sometimes this happens when I try to full screen the video. This seems to happen only after upgrading to ubuntu 11, and happens for multiple kinds of files, like avi and m4v. The motherboard is Asus a8v-mx. How to fix my ubuntu installation
Here are the relevant entries from syslog:
21:12:27 enlightenment kernel: [488.157457] powernow-k8: Hardware error - pending bit very stuck - no further pstate changes possible
May 1 21:12:27 enlightenment kernel: [488.158634] powernow-k8: transition frequency failed
May 1 21:12:27 enlightenment kernel: [488.264015] powernow-k8: failing targ, change pending bit set
May 1 21:12:27 enlightenment kernel: [488.306466] agpgart-amd64 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge
May 1 21:12:27 enlightenment kernel: [488.306489] agpgart-amd64 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode .....
General :: How To Give Full Admin Rights To New User?
Jul 14, 2011I have created a new user using sudo adduser "user1" from the root .but this user does not have full admin rights...How to give full access to this user1?
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Jan 21, 2010- When using SU - , I need the option to show the full user path (root user, home dir, etc..), not just root@name. Is there one?
-If not in sudoers file, how can a user get in to edit a file for example. Is that possible?
-Does service ssh restart disconnect users?
Software :: Give Full Set Of Permissions To An User To Access A Folder?
Nov 27, 2010I'm a new user for oracle,tried to install oracle 10g on redhat linux 5 but gettinh the same error message. response/ runInstaller [oracle2@localhost database_10201]$ sh runInstaller_runInstaller: line 54: /tmp/database_10201/install/.oui: Permission denied_
how to give full set of permisions to an user in linux to access a folder?
Debian :: Set New User To Use Bash?
Mar 16, 2011when i created new user with # useradd -m newuser and logged in as newuser, i cannot have the autocompletion that the first user have.Why? How do i set newuser to use bash and the same for all other user?
View 5 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Bash Script, Take User Input Then Use It As A Path?
Jan 29, 2011I'm trying to make a script to make it quicker to encode videos.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Type the path of the video file"
[code]....
Ubuntu :: Bash: User Prompts And Directory Changing?
Mar 2, 2011Basically I'm trying to create a bash script that'll ask for a folder name and then change into that folder.
Code:
Not real code but bare with me!
echo "Enter the desired folder and press [ENTER]
read $folder
cd $folder
pwd
/home/<user name>/<whatever the user entered>
Is this possible with bash or am I chasing a pipe dream?
General :: How To List User Using Bash
Aug 2, 2011how to list existing users using bash
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Apr 28, 2010I've written a bash script that allows a user to input a directory location to find out the size of the directory. However, if the user inputs a directory and finds its size then inputs another directory then wants to quit, the script asks the user numerous times if he wants to quit!! The script won't exit until the number of times the user looks at a directory is reached! What gives?
Here's the script:
Code:
Server :: Does The Mysql User Need Bash Shell
Oct 2, 2010Is there any reason for the mysql user to need bash shell?
From /etc/passwd:
Code:
mysql:x:100:103:MySQL server:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/bash
Will anything break if I change that to /bin/false?
Programming :: Switch User In A Bash Script?
Jul 28, 2011I need to switch from one user to another in a script in a solaris machine. No one of those users is root. I see I can use su commandt I think I can't pass the password as a parameter . I'm using bash. Is there anyway that I can switch user in a bash script
View 7 Replies View RelatedProgramming :: Working With User Input In Bash
Jun 2, 2009I've been using python/bash to help myself automate things for a long time, however I am curious. One reason I use python more is because I don't quite know how to work with user input in Bash, such as getting it to ask for input and wait, and then placing that user input into a command.
Here's an example of a script I use from time to time for converting OGG video files into AVI.
How could I write this same script in Bash? Keep in mind I am mostly self taught, so I am by no means an expert programmer.
Code:
Ubuntu :: Phantom User Still Logged In - Bash: Kill: (5485) - No Such Process
Sep 13, 2010$ uptime
09:55:00 up 7 days, 6 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
..but I'm the only user logged in!
$ who -a
system boot 2010-09-06 09:48
run-level 2 2010-09-06 09:48 last=
[code]....
looks as though this is the culprit, but...
$ kill 5485
-bash: kill: (5485) - No such process
This process doesn't exist in the /proc folder or the output of ps. Does anyone know how this happened, and how to remove this ghost user from my system without a complete reboot? I think I have seen a similar thing on a RedHat machine ages ago but I have never figured out how to log out these ghost users.
$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-28-server #1 SMP Wed Aug 25 16:07:16 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Fedora :: Terminal Now Opens As -bash-4.0$ And Will Not Let Login As Any User?
Dec 3, 2009For some reason my terminal now opens as -bash-4.0$ and will not let me login as any user.Is there anyway to fix this? It's very annoying and I've never came across it before.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSoftware :: Bash Command To Find Out If User Exists?
Jan 20, 2011Is there any linux command to find out if a user exists? It should something like this: if user exists it returns 1, if he doesn't it returns 0.
View 3 Replies View RelatedProgramming :: Bash Script Predefined User Input
Aug 9, 2009I have a script im having some problems with, what I need is to have the system generate a random password for me and use that password when creating new users to it.
System is Debian Lenny and script is in bash.
The program is znc. I have made it so that it will generate the random password on the shell but the problem is to use it in the bnc software.
To make a password there the command is znc --makepass and look like this:
My question is now if it would be possible to put in the script so it would "answer" when it need those passwords ? the random password that is generated is in a variable called $setpass and is NOT crypted.
Or is there any other software that would be able to generate that md5 string for me ?
Programming :: How Can User Runs Bash Script At Boot Of PC?
Dec 28, 2008I wanna that the pc starts (on/off), the pc arrives to gdm. It waits for an user to log.But but at the boot of this machine, I would like that an user has a script started in the processes (NO X cuz bash script).How can an user runs a script at boot of the PC ? (once only and no one loged)
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Nov 12, 2010What is the best way to lauch bash script on user logon and logoff?
View 1 Replies View RelatedFedora :: Limit User Access (bash And Physically At Machine)
Nov 24, 2010I'm trying to determine how to limit a specific user so that they are confined within their home. I'm also trying to figure out how to prevent a specific user from walking up to the computer and allowing them to log in, but still allow SSH. Basically I'm trying to provide an account with very limited access to the machine.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSoftware :: Bash-script : Start A User A's Process From Other Users?
Aug 26, 2010A Tomcat server is installed under user A. Now I am going to write a script which will start this Tomcat server. And this script can be executed from other users (from there account). And if other user run this script, the process ID should be of user A, so that user A can start or stop this process any time. This means, at the beginning of the script I have set the process ID as user A. How to do this?
View 8 Replies View RelatedProgramming :: Get A Password In A Bash Script For Mysql User Creation?
Apr 25, 2010I'm trying to get a password in a bash script for mysql user creation. But sometimes a get a non-alphanumeric character(s) in the password, and mysql failes with that. I tryed with apg -EO0Il1`~!@#$%^&*()_+-=[];./{}|:"'<>? but failed. I tryed with sed 's/[^a-zA-Z2-9]//g' , but at that moment the minimum password lenght failed. I'm also fine when there is a better alternative then apg.
View 2 Replies View RelatedProgramming :: BASH - Create User And Password On Multiple Machines
Aug 9, 2010I'm trying to write a script that will prompt the user for a username/password, then create that user/password in the right groups on all my machines. I know this is kind of a long way around to avoid a NIS server, but I like making my life more difficult.
This is what I have so far:
Code:
the script has 2 problems: The "if" functions return an error and do not compare the strings successfully. whatever password is entered does get applied properly and the user is unable to login
Programming :: Catch User Input While The Bash Script Is Running?
Oct 30, 2010How do you catch user input while the script is running? Or, how would you make two scripts run at the same time, but use input from one script to the other? The program I'm trying to make, echos text on the screen continuously, but while thats happening, I want the user to be able to input something, so the program can detect the input and display something else. So I thought maybe I could make two scripts run to do each task.
View 5 Replies View RelatedProgramming :: Bash - Calling A Specific Variable Based On User Input?
May 3, 2011I'm trying to call a specific variable based on a user selection. For example:
Code: Select a file:
[1] foo.tar
[2] bar.tar
Enter a selection: I have already coded each possible selection to have its own variable. If the user selects 2 I need to select $SELECTED_TAR2, or if they select 1 I need to select $SELECTED_TAR1 and then do something like this behind the scenes:
Code: cp /home/user/$SELECTED_TAR2 /home/user/backup/$SELECTED_TAR2
I was thinking something like this:
Code: echo "Enter a selection: "
read -e SELECTED_NUMBER
cp /home/user/$SELECTED_TAR$SELECTED_NUMBER /home/user/backup
[code]....