I have a quick question that I haven't been able to find an answer for so far. Is it possible to 'hide' a user from the user list in gdm? Note that I don't want to remove it entirely, I just want a user that you can only get into by clicking 'other', entering your name and password.
View 2 RepliesI've got a win7/ubuntu 10.04 dual boot running on my system. I did the usual of installing 7 first, then ubuntu and using it as the default boot option. I now want to get rid of win 7 and expand the ubuntu installation into the free space. My current hdd structure is in the attachment. If I just boot a live cd and gparted to remove the win 7 partitions and expand the ubuntu installation into the free space, will that work or will it have a massive panic? how to I get grub to silently boot after without offering me any boot options?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs there a way that I can have a user on my Ubuntu 11 box that when logged in it automatically opens X program and nothing else, no window manager nothing, single program for that user only?Here is the scenario, I have 3 users, one is called Skype. I want when someone logs into the skype user no window manager at all be available to that user from the GDM and for xwin to automatically start skype up.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just added a new user to my ubuntu:
sudo adduser james
When james logs in he access his folder BUT he can also access other user's folders. How can I prevent his access to others? I wish to restrict his account to his folder only (he can read/write).
Ubuntu 10.10
I was setting up a machine for a friend using my normal username. Once the install was finished I created a new account (Admin) for the friend, logged out, logged in as the friend and deleted my own account. On the next reboot I get a message about not being able to update .ICEauthority for my own account, which I thought was deleted. Then there are messages about the configuration server failing and that Nautilus can't find the home dir for my own account, then just the desktop background, no panel, no nothing, just hangs.
Obviously, in this case deleting the account didn't clean up everything. How can I get to the login prompt for the friend's account?
How do I get into Single User Mode in 10.04?
The grub menu seems to be gone in 10.04, and the computer boots in 2 seconds. It's great that it boots fast, but there has to be some way to specify boot options?
/etc/default/grub says the timeout is 10, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I'm running mythbuntu on 10.04 with an AMD athlon and nvidia geforce4 (nvidia-96) graphics. Shortly into the boot procedure, the system appears to switch into single user mode, killing all the processes I want running and dropping me into the recovery menu.
On 20 Nov I was having problems booting the system, which I traced to a probably loose sata cable to the (single) hard drive. While working on this I performed a normal system update, and then started having the problem described above. the update included
menu 2.1.43ubuntu1
libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.5
plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.1
grub-pc 1.98-1ubuntu8
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7.4
initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu78
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command for adding a user and removing a user.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a good question. I have a friend that lives in an area where he cannot receive DSL or Cable internet. He has a phone line, and physically able to get DSL, but the company won't give him service. He has Verizon wireless, but the reception is bad and his service gets dropped too much.
I however, have DSL 3.0Mbps and want to know how I could get him a DSL modem to dial up to my server at my house and receive internet. I know that I would probably need two phone lines to do this, but apart from that.
i'm having trouble with my fresh ubuntu installation (netbook edition). what i did was install xubuntu-desktop on top of that (wanted to check it out)..........didn't really work for me, so i removed it, hoping this would also remove the xubuntu desktop logon screen, which i didn't like. since this wasn't the case, i went to synaptics and removed all and everything with xubuntu in the title. NOTE: in the same session i turned off password requests for login - it could also matter, but i'm not sure, so i thought i'd mention it. the end result: three warning messages at logon
- Could not update ICEauthority file /home/dsikl/.ICEauthority
- There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/bgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)
- Nautilus could not create the following required folders: /home/dsikl/Desktop, /home/dsikl/.nautilus. Before running Nautilus, please create these folders, or set permissions such that Nautilus can create them.
i don't have access to my programs, administrator tools, /home folder, nothing.........the only thing that appears is the right part of the top bar (network, clock etc.), but also completely different.......it doesn't have my WLAN data anymore (can't access it), and all i have managed to get started was (accidentally) terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T, and from there I can use sudo, or even start nautilus, but can't access my own user, no matter what.........in the end i somehow managed to get to the point where it requested my passphrase, which i wanted to print out a day before it happened, but didn't and the screenshot is unfortunately within my /home folder. i tried reinstalling xubuntu-desktop, even ubuntu-desktop, i repaired broken packages from the recovery mode, tried everything i could to get the bugger going again, no success yet.
i would be happy to do a clean install, but there's one spreadsheet in the documents folder which i desperately need and i really need to get a hold of it before formating. could some sort of a rescue livecd help? i just need that one file. the easiest would be if i could somehow repair whatever packages may be broken, or manually (with apt-get or similar) reinstall the additional xubuntu packages i manually removed via synaptics, but i wouldn't have a clue what those were
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'm trying to disable multiple logins for a single user on Ubuntu 10.10 but I haven't been able to find a way to do this on this version
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow can I, a single user, stop the hassle of having to constantly log in. Ubuntu 11.04 is what I currently using.
View 7 Replies View Relatedwhat things can i do in single user mode?is there a guide out there can help me out how to navigate in single user mode?in links that focus only on user user mode?being in single user mode in other istro all the same? debian, fedora, suse. etc
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've created Oracle Enterprise 5 Virtual machine. It was running fine but not sure what went wrong and now when ever I reboot the machine, it goes to single user mode. If I enter "init 5" command it boots to multi-user X11 mode without any problem.I checked inittab file and default line has id 5. So it looks OK. What else can be wrong?
View 15 Replies View RelatedI have a user that can ssh to every computer on our network expect for one. I verified that it has to be the account by having the user ssh from a different computer. the results were the same.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am running redhat ES 5 on a dell server and recently, I ran into a snag where I was able to reduce a partition (ext3) but could not run resize2fs (mismatch between physical and logical blocks (i never found a solution to this). In any case I decided to log in a single user mode (appended 'single' at the GRUB loader prompt) and now I am always taken to this single user mode every single time I reboot and can't seem to get out of it. I have tried init 5 (runlevel that the system is set to boot into by default) but that does nothing (no message on the # prompt).Of course, I have 2 problems here:
1) partition issue
2) cannot log out of single user mode.
I am going to remove root access via SSH which seems fine but I don't know how to add a new user, do I have to create a group first or are there existing groups I can add a user to, and does it matter which group I add a user to if I want this user to have root access with sudo?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI want to fix my disks with fsck but using sudo init 1 is not allowing me in. It shuts my services down, then gives a "Give root password for maintenance" prompt. I've tried my password, but it rejects it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI would like to install ubuntu on my imac g4 but osx won't boot so I wanted to
to use ubuntu is there any way to eject cd from single user mode?
So I was messing with my sudoers file and messed it up. I found this solution:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140852But the grub menu doesn't appear on boot. Google finds that ESC, SPACE, TAB, and several other keys are supposed to bring the menu up. However none work and I can't edit the grub configuration without being able to sudo.
View 3 Replies View Relatedin ubuntu 10.04 how to get into single user mode with out entering the root user password
View 1 Replies View RelatedNo idea why this happens but on a couple of systems I'm unable to boot into single user, either as runlevel S or runlevel 1. This is true for the Failsafe image and the regular system image alike.
The major symptom is that it seems the initrd image is started and then the system hangs when it tries to transfer control to the inittab.
I am able to boot into the system with runlevel 2 or higher. I am also able to boot into the single-user rescue DVD image.
how to add the rescue DVD boot image to my secondary IDE drive so that I have a guaranteed way into the system?
I'm running debian lenny. Suddenly when I rebooted my system I was unable to login. I type root and the password and it tells me the login is incorrect.If I boot into single user mode, it accepts the password just fine. Looking in the /etc/shadow file, it appears to be fine as well.Running passwd to set a new password sets a new password just fine, i can login to single user mode with the new password, however, I cannot login at a higher runlevel with the password.
If I delete a password in the /etc/shadow file, then try to login as that user, it simply says "Login Incorrect" without even asking for a password.
how to give two or more permission to single user.
View 5 Replies View Relatedhow can i restrict a single particular user from logging into the server not more than 5 times?
The conditions may be:
1) wrong password
2) can login only 5 times on one day etc.
Upon OS start-up Debian gives a choice, one is just simply start Debian, another line to start Debian, but with brackets (single-user mode). What's this for? And when and why do you need to use this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a file server on my network. It is accessed mainly by linux machines throught NFS, but sometimes I need to access it from windows, and I managed to get Samba up and running with only one share with no password, which is what I want.My users have their "private" folders which are just chmodded 700, and under NFS it works fine, but on samba I get, of course, access denied.How can I configure samba so that it asks a password to access those directory? They can become separate shares, and have their own username and passwords (not the ones in /etc/passwd in the server), I don't care.
View 1 Replies View RelatedStill working scanning results, this time with DISA's SRR scripts.More than one scanning package complains about;The UNIX host is bootable in single user mode without a password..So, I assume in /etc/passwd there is an entry that corrects this?what is the specific syntax and where does it go ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a system with a fair amount of software on it. The system stopped working due to a hard drive error. The system have 5 hards drive ( 1T). I need to get into single user mode (maintenance) as some how I messed up the root password. When starting up I get the time out screen press esc and it takes me to GNU GRUB version 0.97 screen In this screen there are 6 different lines
CentOS (2.6.18-238.12.1.el5PAE)
CentOS (2.6.18-238.12.1.el5)
CentOS (2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE)
CentOS (2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE)
CentOS (2.6.18-238.el5PAE)
CentOS base (2.6.18-238.el5)
I move the arrow down to CentOS base (2.6.18-238.el5) and pressed 'e' Then I get three lines
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