I just upgraded to ubuntu 10.04 via the alternate cd ISO image. I can log in to Ubuntu with my old password but sometimes, when i have to grant extra privileges, that same password doesn't work. I also get a small message saying the pass word I use to loging and the one used for 'keyring' are different. what's wrong? Is there any way I can correct this?
View 1 RepliesDoes any know if there is a way to recover or reset my password. Its the only account on the desktop.
View 1 Replies View RelatedUsing thunderbird for email, as several users of this computer have individual preferences. Worked in 10.10 and previous. Upgraded to 11.04 this morning, had to install from CD due to my mistake. Changed computer name too. No worries, have done this before. Added new account to Thunderbird. Copied over mail folders too. Application is good to go. However, when checking email now get reply from server that password is invalid. Checked all account settings within T-Bird but cannot locate password setttings for this server/account. Appears to use something called STARTTLS. How to access this store of passwords?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm running 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic, Encrypted HDD.I changed my login passwordwhen i try to boot i click on my name and type in my new password i have 'authentication fail' when i type in my old password this happens"could not update ICEauthority file /home/chris/ICEauthority""Their is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/libconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2) exited with status 256""Nautilus could not create the following required folders/Home/chris/Desktop,/home/chris/.nautilusBefore running nautilus, please create these folders, or set permissions such that nautilus can create them."
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhat can I do if I changed my ubuntu password and cant remember what it is?I only have 1 user on my system - me, and I changed the password today, thinking it was obvious to remember my new password, but I cant remember it exactly
View 6 Replies View RelatedSo Pidgin was workign just fine in Ubuntu Studio karmic... After i Changed my password for my msn IM for security reasons it just woun't sign me in.
Iv tried so many times, my pass is correct... But i keep getting this message
"NEW MSN account
Authentication failed
Edit Account"
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My question is: how can you protect against this? I see this as a security hole.I understand that the user must have physical access to the computer, but if I want to lock the system down so you cannot easily enter single user mode or the root password cannot be changed.
I need to create a script that returns a list of the users who have never changed their password from /etc/shadow.
As I know on linux there is a command "chage" used for find last password change. Any idea about solaris command?
my laptop is shutting down after i type in the password to start the upgrade.
logs:
syslog
WARNING: Could not launch application 'gnome-user-share.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/gnome-user-share/gnome-user-share" (No such file or directory)
auth.log
administrator : no tty present and no askpass program specified ; TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/shutdown -h now
same thing is happening when i start synaptic.
I just changed my password now every time I start my computer the keyring wants my old password and it keeps doing weird things even after I type it in. Like Ubuntu will say No keyring found or something to that effect anyway.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I set up an ID in Ubuntu, I encrypted it. I did a print screen of the passphrase and put it on the desktop. I'm just learning how to use the encryption so don't fault me for putting it right on the desktop. There is no important data in this ID. Now, I went and changed my password to the account. On the next boot, I got a few error message:
Could not update ICEauthority file /home/mickymouse/.ICEauthority
There is a problem with the configuration server /usr/lib/libconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256 In researching these, it looks like the problem is that I changed the password but didn't update (or something) my passphrase.
I can't boot into the GUI but I have figured out how to boot to a command prompt. I don't have access to my home directory because I don't have my passphrase. Am I toast or is there a way to recover / update the passphrase?
Vmware tells me it cannot start services.I believe the issue is tied to permissions because the message indicated the log with the full details was located in /tmp/vmware-root/setup-4772.log but when I go there I receive a message telling me I do not have permission to the directory and there's a lock symbol on the directory from the File Browser utility.What do I need to do to unlock the folder and get vmware working again ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedToday, after postfix security upgrade, /tmp permissions changed from 777 to 755 on my Ubuntu Server 10.04.2
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to create a script that returns a list of the users who have never changed their password from /etc/shadow. As I know on linux there is a command "chage" used for find last password change.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am having following problem. If I try to change my SMB password, it throws following error >
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~>smbpasswd
Old SMB password:
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Server did not provide 'target information', required for NTLMv2
rpc_pipe_bind: rpc_send_auth_reply failed.
machine 127.0.0.1 does not support SAMR connections, but LANMAN password changed are disabled
Failed to change password for user1
Before the update my computer was named "joe-laptop", (i think it was the host name is what its called, that was named "joe-laptop". Along with that, on my KDE session/desktop (I installed Ubuntu, but later got the kubuntu desktop packages) I had the gnomes network manager used instead of KDEs (kdes network manager was giving me problems, I would type the password in for my wifi router, then it would stall, then ask again as if its ignoring the password. but thats not important so im not gonna get into that whole part (at least yet)).
When i upgraded from ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 the login screen said "localhost.localdomain" rather than "joe-laptop", and in the terminal it says "joe@localhost", rather than "joe@joe-laptop", along with that it kicked KDEs network manager back into use on the kde desktop, which means I can't access the internet on kde now.
I'm trying to fix the network manager part myself, but if I can't get that Ill post in this thread or edit this post. I was able to previously get gnomes network manager to load over it so I'm sure I'll hit it again.
I figured out the problem, it turns out that the name problem was that it deleted the /etc/hosts file, so i just copied the older hosts I backed up a month or so ago and slapped it in there and it worked perfect.
As for getting the gnome network manager, it must not be compatible with the qtcurve gtk theme, cause I switched it the gtk theme to a newer one, then loaded back up nm-applet and bam it came up there!
Last update 26/03/2010 splash screen was changed... again!
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am using kubuntu 9.04 dual booting with winXP. The package kit showed that I have 179 bug fixes. So I updated them.Now the boot time grub menu shows 6(two different versions for kubuntu and kubuntu recovery mode) entries instead of usual 4(winXp + kubuntu + kubuntu recovery mode + memtest). My grub.cfg file is as follows:
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#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
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What is wrong. How can I change the entries. Which one to remove ?
I installed ubuntu 10.04; it ran an update installation a couple days ago, and now i have xubuntu.
I didn't see anything about this in the update and wish to revert to ubuntu.
Any ideas how this happened and how to revert?
I have been trying for a couple days now to install 10.04 on a 250G hard drive that was a USB boot with 9.1. I want the hard drive in the case. The bios has been changed and does see the new drive. Boot selection has been changed to CD Rom. Everything starts out fine until step 4 of the install, Prepare partitions. There is no hard drive available on this step. The HDD is not seen by the disk utility either.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm try to install auto updates and keep getting'The package indexes are currently changed by apt-get.'How do I get around this problem?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi upgraded to 10.04.tty1 comes up on a black page and password will not enter.Tried esc on boot and none of that works.It shows 9.10 installed no 10.04.I need a way on
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo I'm brand new to lunix os. I wanted to install xubuntu on a old sony viao laptop so I downloaded the live cd and tried to boot from it. I have changed the boot priority and I can here the cd drive spinning but nothing happens. Also I tried the second option on the installer (install it inside of windows) but I got an error saying I don't have permission.I've also gotten an error saying it cant find the disk but the disk shows up and I can open up/start installation. And I am the admin on the computer. Heres some computers specsWindows xp service pack 31gb of ramIntel Pentium processor 2.4ghz
View 8 Replies View RelatedThe quality of my display has changed overnight from ok to amazingly good. I assume something has been upgraded in the latest update. Is there a way of listing the latest changes? I just want to know what has brought about this amazing transformation.
View 4 Replies View Relatedi wanted to expand my disc space using an sd card and did this
sudo mv /home/name_of_home_folder home/name_of_home_folder_bk
sudo mkdir /home/name_of_home_folder
sudo mount /dev/sdXX(sd card) /home/name_of_home_folder
after this i cannot boot says cannot boot ,nautilus cant find home folder etc &more after doing alt-ctrl-f1 and doing login i can find my old home folder with all inside the point is how i can change to my old home folder -have to find the solution in order not to do format again i use ubuntu desktop edition on an acer aspire one netbook with ssd 8gb -
as oldfred said have to setup fstab ,i agree i saw some threads with this but how this can be done?
As the title says I have done the stupid mistake of changing the name of two partitions (the main for the W7 and another just for documents), I did not change the name of the Ubuntu 11 partition. I used the Computer Management from windows to do the changing. Now nothing works, it does not find the Grub to initiate or a not even gives me the menu to choose the windows. When you change the name does it change the drive letter? Couldn't understand why this happen.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently installed virtual box on debian and after it had finished my terminal informed me that I could remove some "unnecessary" software by use of sudo apt-get autoremove. When I did this, some of the icons on the desktop changed and all of the icons in the drop down menu on the bar at the top of the screen also changed to ordinary folder symbols. The theme that I was using also went away. I restarted the computer and it booted back into a shell prompt with no GUI. I tried to get back to the GUI using alt+f7 but it didn't seem to exist
View 2 Replies View RelatedI keep getting the following msg as I try to upgrade from 10.04 -> 10.10 ... "Could not calculate the upgrade An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report." I don't think any of the issues above apply - can anyone offer advice on how to get around or "force " the upgrade
I had the desktop version of ubuntu installed on my netbook previously. Then I got the 11.04 update which changed my desktop to what I think is the netbook version of ubuntu, which I highly dislike. Is there any way to change it back?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an Asus K60 laptop with the Athlon chipset. I had wireless working just fine under Lucid. But after upgrading to Meerkat, I can't get my password to be recognized. The router connection is seen without any difficulty, but the WPA password is rejected every time. I've rechecked it, of course, and also checked that it works in the Windows partition on the same machine. I'm using wicd and madwifi, recompiled for the -35 kernel. Here's the relevant output of lspci:Quote:
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0)
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