After an upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, my only non-root user on the system can't log in to X. Root can log in just fine. When I type my password into GDM, it attempts to start X but goes right back to GDM without starting X successfully or giving me any error messages. I'm using nvidia graphics drivers and dual monitors, and those work just fine in root's X session. How can I fix it so my non-root user can log in again?
View 1 RepliesIs It possible to change a process running in root-user to non-root-user by setting suid / uid / euid / gid etc... I so please instruct how, when and wat to set in order to change a process running in root-user to non-root user
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View 9 Replies View Relatedi used opensuse 11.1 ...there is option for root user to create password for root...but for ubuntu i did not find anything like that...so how can i create root password....or how can i use root
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View 9 Replies View Relatedi just installed linux mandriva 2009. i set password for root and created a user account. when i try to login as root, after logging out as user, it does not allow me and gives the error "root logins are not allowed". even it does not show the root account. if i try to go to root from konsole terminal using su root, it allows to enter as a root but when i try to start the GUI with startx it gives error.not sure what to do and why i can't see my account in GUI mode
View 5 Replies View RelatedPrelude: OpenSUSE 11.2 (2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop), installed Novell client 2.0 SP2 (novell-client-2.0-sp2-sle11-i586.iso).
I found that if any usual user is logged into a NDS-tree, then _local_ root has full access to user's network shares, including the user's home directory located on remote Netware-server. Is it by design or
have I missed something? Nevertheless in windows local admin has no access to network resources mounted of any other user. If you runas shell (as admin) then admin in principle can't "see" network shares which were mounted (connected) by other users - they are accessible ("visible") per session.
I am using mint 8 for a 2 weeks, I am noob to linux but I like Mint than any other linux distro which is great alternative to windows. I have a problem regarding password reseting.
1. My laptop automatically get logged in without asking user name and password.
2. I tried to change password for newly created user and root user using graphical way but it does not work.
2. I can perform administrator task using only OEM user which is default inbuilt user of mint.
How can make my laptop to ask password when mint get booted? How to change password for other users?
Does Gnome display manager need reconfiguring to allow root user log-in?
Older versions had gdm.conf to re-configure; looks like 9.10 is different here...
In the installation I had given a user name and pass word.Now I can log as a other user but not as a root.I want to log as root.Is there any way to log as root.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI started to use Ubuntu 9.1 today. It's the first version of linux I'm using. So my problem is that I always got a message in terminal, that says "are you root?", when I try to do something with apt-get. Well i tried to install a root, but it didn't work. One thing I almost forgot. Root is the Superuser that should be put on, when I installed the current version of ubuntu right? I don't understand how could it happen that the system didn't put the root on.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIt seems little weird that I can shutdown my system (as non root user) from GUI but now from command line. I understand this may have to do with old unix tradition. I am now writing a script to shutdown systems after a certain period of inactivity. How do i shutdown system as non root users and without using sudo? Also the shutdown option in GUI must be calling a command line internally. Which is that option? Can I use that to shutdown system as non root user?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI often put together complete computers from spare parts. When I do, I put Linux on them and put my name as the root user. However, I don't build these to keep them for myself.....I usually end up giving them away to someone who needs one and can't afford to buy one. What I would like to do before givi9ng them away is to change the root user name to their name. How can I do that? CAN I do that?
View 9 Replies View Relatedhow i know am in root user or another user? how to login as root user? sudo passwd root when i typed in termninal am getting this error pa1 is not in the sudoers file.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow to become a root user without using sudo?So,that i can become super user to edit configuration files in etc directory.
View 1 Replies View RelatedRun something as simple user while being root!?
View 7 Replies View Relatedis any way to turn off that I need to type in my password every time I come back to my computer (after a while it the screen turn black and I need to log in again)?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was changing my GUI settings in XFCE in my root user account on Xubuntu when suddenly I was logged out and the computer shut down.
(I have done this before with no such trouble...)
Now I can't log into my root account all I get is a blank screen for a few seconds then I'm back at the log-in screen, the other account works fine.
(This is on my Xubuntu 10.10 laptop BTW...)
Having trouble adding a regular user with ssh access on Hardy 8.04. I can ssh into root, but not into the newly created regular user with the same ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Code:
sshd_config has:
AllowGroups sshlogin
AllowUsers user root
[code]....
what could be preventing ssh login to ~user? And yes I would like to disable root ssh access, but it would be nice to be able to ssh into user first
how do i create non root user( that is multiple accounts as in windows) in ubuntu..
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I want full permissions for all computers in my house, without having to get up and go to the other room and change permissions for the file, then go back to the other room again.
I just created a partition, as THIS user, THIS machine, rebooted, and cannot create a folder on the partition I just created. UGH. No more of this stuff...
Im doing a security based project in linux platform(ubuntu). When i try to modify some properties in ubuntu it is showing as "permission denied". I have only one password which i created when installing ubuntu.But using tat password i cant login as root. How to make login as a root user?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs this a Fault on my part or a bug?? (not sure if this is the right place for this let me no if not i'll move it I want to add a user to Group "freevo" but if i open User settings via the GUI menus and click on the keys button to enter the root password it keeps coming back to me saying that the password is wrong even though it is'nt (and cap's is off).
So i try the terminal "user-admin" and had the same problem wrong password So i try'd "sudo user-admin" and entered the password at the command line and up pops the User settings GUI with root privileges
I just got a 1.5 terrabyte Western Digital My Book 1110 external usb 2 drive. I used Gparted to reformat the drive to ext3. The problem I have is I can't change the file permissions for the drive because it says the drive is owned by root. I can't back up my files into the drive because it won't allow me to. I am using Jaunty Jackalope and got this drive to back up my files so I can feel comfortable in upgrading to Karmic Koala in case there are major problems with the upgrade.
I know someone out there in the community can tell me the commands to use in the terminal to let me gain ownership of this external drive from root so I can copy my files into it. the entire drive itself is seen as /dev/sdb One meg of the drive is unallocated and the part of the drive that I reformated is seen as /dev/sdb1 my personal files are owned by the name of dave
It's been a few years since I last installed Ubuntu. I searched the forums and can't seem to find the answer. I want to be able to do a "su root" and have root access. I know Ubuntu wants you to do the sudo command, and I know you can really mess things up being root. I know I got this to work before. What do I need to do?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI unlock the root usr accout, but how can i log it on?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do I set the PYTHONPATH for the root user only? Or at least add to the python path for the root user? I need to read from the /var/log/apache2/access.log in my python script, so I need to use sudo for my script to be able to read from it.I tried setting the PYTHONPATH in /root/.bashrc but that didn't work. I don't want to use a .pth file because I don't want the directory to be on the path for all users due to import collisions.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am currently responsible for administering a shared Ubuntu machine with several unrelated users. Some of these users own multiple accounts and would like to "chown" files between them. Currently, I must handle such requests manually, and this is inconvenient.
I am looking for a way to allow non-root users to chown files with authentication (i.e. prompt for the password of the user to which ownership is being set to). This would prevent an exploit such as:
Quote:
cp /bin/bash ~/sudobash
chmod 4777 ~/sudobash
chown root:root ~/sudobash
Does such a solution exist?
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.
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