How do I enable auto login for my linux servers? I just don't want to have to login everytime I start them up or restart them. As they are test servers this happens alot...
View 1 RepliesMeaning when I turn on the computer, it automatically logs into the family account; and they never need to enter any passwords.Second, under System -> Administration -> Users and Groups (users-admin from terminal) there is a "Don't ask for password on login" option (toggle) which is desirable for this family account. However, I have never seen this option enabled, but always grayed out. Is there any way to enable this option?In short, I want:1) For the family account never to require a password on login.2) Automatically log into the family account on boot.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to enable the auto login on Ubuntu 9.04 but it has some creteria.The auto login should be only for first time & after the first reboot it should go normal. I tried it by editing gdm.conf file but it allows me to remain auto login permanently, I need to change this value after first reboot
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am using Ubuntu 10.4 beta lucid Lynx, Gnome enviroment and GDM.I have already added root to user list and can login as ROOT when system starts but want also make it enable to auto login like any other user. I tried to make some changes in GDMSETUP but with no succes
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm on Debian testing Gnome 3.18 and I searched, tried, searched and tried... no way! numlock will always stays off whenever I reboot and reach login screen.
.... I checked bios settings > numlock is on
- installed numlockx
- added those lines to /etc/gdm3/Init/Default (if [ -x /usr/bin/numlockx ]; then /usr/bin/numlockx on fi)
- checked dconf gnome /settings-daemon /peripherals /keyboard remember-numlock-state: true
....
I have setup Rsync as a daemon on a Ubuntu 10.04 box and the setup was successful. Here are my configs
Code:
root@hurricane:`# nano /etc/default/rsync
# defaults file for rsync daemon mode
# start rsync in daemon mode from init.d script?
# only allowed values are "true", "false", and "inetd"
[Code].....
I need sshd (thats the ssh host) to enable, or be allowed to enable audo when I log in. Once I log in to my server locally, sound is enabled as long as a local bash is active. When local bash is active, I can run command line audio operations, in various audio programs via an SSH terminal, and have the sound work at the server.
I want the sound (device(s)?) to be active, enabled, loaded, (NOOB here) when I am ONLY logged in via SSH. I don't want to have to go to the server and log in to a local terminal to have audio loaded, this defeats the point of using SSH.. LOL sound needs to work on that server with no local login, I.e. the screen says "computername login:"
So there is something I'm missing here. Ive read over the sshd documentation many times.. Some of it is beyond my skill set, so I'm sure i'm missing something.
Or perhaps sshd needs permission to load the audio? I don't know here I'm a noob.
(I suppose I should add, this is gnome system with X disabled with the runlevel edit to gdm.conf. but audio works without starting X, so I doubt the problem lies here, as I said before the SSH connection does what I need it to as long as a local BASH (not X) session is logged in.)
I recently installed 32bit maverick and wanted to make it login automatically. I tried enabling auto login from Admin > Login but that didnt work and I was still prompted for my password. Then I went to Users & Groups and changed the password option to Do Not ask for password at login now after I reboot, the user list is shown (only 1 user) and it doesnt ask for password after I click on my username.
However, then it gives a few errors (as i vaguely recall):
1. cannot load .ICE directory in my home directory
2. some error 256 about a gconf-sanity-2 file
3. nautilus cannot load my home directory etc
and then it gets stuck without loading anything (blank wallpaper). i ve tried navigating to my home directory using Alt F2, gksudo nautilus and my home dir contents are encrypted by the ecryptfs (there is a readme.txt file and a shortcut). i have tried to decrypt but it doesnt work... i ve also tried to start/stop gdm, and startx but nothing works. if i stop gdm, then the prompt doesnt recognize my password and keeps on rejecting the commands i enter... I think this has something to do with the home dir not being decrypted due to the dont ask for paswd option... how can i disable the dont ask for pwd without the gui (i can access my / by booting through an external usb).
I press On-button, Debian boots, logs in and automatically connects to the Wireless network AND! to my local pc via LAN. It runs an ssh server, so I can ssh into debian over internet and communicate with the local pc (send a magic packet).Here are my problems:
1) I don't how to log in automatically. This and this doesn't work.
2) I need a network tool that can manage multiple connections and has a reconnect feature. With the default network manager I cannot even connect to more than one network simultaneously although I have two network devices of course.
And I guess I can run all that in console mode, right?
I am a new user of linux platforms ( i have ubuntu 10.04) and i am totally satisfied from this platform .You can do everything you want without needing previous linux or programming experience.I have the following question.Is there any bash script that makes an auto restart to the computer every 12 hours without needing my credentials to enter to the OS?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have program that work like Fedora Firstboot it's run only one time after finish installation. I have two questions to ask.
1. How can I start this application before gdm start (login screen or auto login)
2. How can I start this application in fix display resolution (800x600)
My method now is
(This is a part of script , this script execute from /etc/init.d/myfirstboot , I create symlink to /etc/rc2.d/S1myfirstboot for start it before anything)
gdm-stop # first time I use /etc/init.d/gdm stop
DISPLAY=:1
export DISPLAY
/usr/bin/Xorg :1 &
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I don't understand why first time firstboot start the system will auto loging in but not complete yet and then my script is start and it's work does not fine I think that is another user is already login , but if I re run my firstboot again and again (by setting something that can revoke my firstboot and restart) it's work before auto login and every things is ok!
Nearly every time that automatic updates finishes installing the software and requires a restart of the OS, the PC locks up at the 'Ubuntu' screen with some dots beneath it.
I have been just been forcing it down by powering off/on the PC - which I figure is probably not a safe thing to do but don't know what else to do or how to troubleshoot this problem.
I've looked at some of the log files but can't make any sense of most of them nor do I know which log file might show the problem.
I have a server box running F12. Whenever networking is lost up-stream, obviously, my box loses it and the networking icon gets the "red" cancellation sign over it.Now, when up-stream connectivity returns, Fedora does not auto-connect. Instead I have to manually go to my office (grrrr), and simply click on the networking icon, click on the unselected radio button next to eth0 (its the only network interface), and I'm good again.To save me future weekend trips to the office.... How can I make sure this happens automatically
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've just installed Ubuntu on my laptop. My laptop has an nVidia card so I'm forced to use the nVidia configuration tools. What I'd like to happen is for it to automatically start using my monitors if they're detected. OR, make a simple script that will enable the monitors without needing to restart X.
View 1 Replies View RelatedJust noticed that auto connection to my wired ethernet is not being established after restarts I'm making. Never recall this in the past. I do get an auto connect when I shutdown and restart. I'm using 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx.
Also have noticed that nearly every upgrade over the past week or so is calling for restart to complete the upgrade. Can there be any unwanted problems in doing several upgrades over a period of several days before doing the restart? I'd like to think not.
As you can imagine these two issues together are causing some lost time.
I installed a CSS server following these instructions on the latest Ubuntu server :url
And I then created + configured my server as per the bottom of this suggesting the server config creator tool :url
All fine - then i go to run my server by doing :
sudo ./srcds_run -console -game cstrike +map de_dust
and it says:
Code:
andy@novo:~/srcds/orangebox$ sudo ./srcds_run -console -game cstrike +map de_dus
t
Auto detecting CPU.Using default binary: ./srcds_linux.Server will auto-restart if there is a crash.
Illegal instruction
Add "-debug" to the ./srcds_run command line to generate a debug.log to help with solving this problem
Wed Dec 1 16:22:40 GMT 2010: Server restart in 10 seconds
Illegal instruction
Add "-debug" to the ./srcds_run command line to generate a debug.log to help with solving this problem
Wed Dec 1 16:22:50 GMT 2010: Server restart in 10 seconds
Illegal instruction
Add "-debug" to the ./srcds_run command line to generate a debug.log to help with solving this problem
Wed Dec 1 16:23:00 GMT 2010: Server restart in 10 seconds
^X^CWed Dec 1 16:23:01 GMT 2010: Server Quit
In a never ending loop - i then add the -debug flag - and do sudo updatedb then locate debug.log but none has been created...
I've recently installed a second monitor and it's great having all that extra space.
However, Ubuntu 'loses' the new monitor after a restart and I have to go into System>Preferences>Display and get the second monitor re-enabled and put to the left of my existing monitor. Quick flicker and the second monitor is on.
I don't really want to have to do this every day so am I missing something so my second monitor is remembered?
I had Compiz Fusion working and wobbly windows and the likes, but after installing some updates and VirtualBox, Cairo Dock and AWN to see which one I liked, Amarok and Qlix for Zune, I restarted. Now when I open Cairo Dock there is a black border around it like transparency is disabled, no desktop effects, and I am unable to activate them because I get a no drivers found message. I don't see why this is happening considering it was working from the get-go
I have an ATI Radeon x1300, which is on the legacy list so I don't think there are drivers for it anymore that work with newer versions of Ubuntu, but I don't understand why it worked before.
My system specs:
Dell Dimension C521
2.5 GB RAM
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
ATI Radeon x1300
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 32 Bit (Is it worth upgrading to 64 bit?)
I've recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop. I installed a bunch of compiz software from the software center. I used ..... to figure everything out. However, somethings didn't work; such as the cube wouldn't change to the sphere, and the windows animations wouldn't work. When I restarted my computer, the cube changed to what I had set. The windows animations, however, didn't. How can I get all of these effects to work, and to take effect without restarting the computer?
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy netbook DOES seem to know when I plug in or remove an external monitor. Can I get it to simply auto-switch?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOn one PC i get automatic updates allmost every day and on the other PC i haven't gotten an auto-update since the install. apt-get update runs ok. I have seen from other posts here, that stable distros are supposed to get only security updates. Why, tho, does one PC get auto-updates, the other not? Is there some switch to enable auto-updates?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a weird problem. When I restart/reboot, the computer restarts (I see the BIOS, Grub, etc., sequences) and goes right back into my desktop session - no login required. This is not the behavior I want.How can I make it reboot to the login screen?I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using windows since I first get my pc but itz day-2-day demands and vulnerabilities make to turn to linux but for some other things I do need window yet last time kubuntu was on my machine along with window 7 (through wubi) but then I uninstall that kubuntu, coz I want to use ubunto. I've got my ubuntu 10.10 cd, so I just sat infront of my pc, inserted the disc and it was a happy installation as it usually does with wubi but when I restart my pc and go for ubuntu OS , there show up a kubuntu screen, which has a title like ubuntu login and there in username field, that's not my username dat I've choose for my ubuntu but it is my pc-name from win7. Well I try to log-in with the user I'd made during installation but it didnot let me logged-in I try again n again even through console but no hope. Then I go back to win and uninstall wubi and get install again ubuntu but nothing different was there to meet me. I have a core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40 Ghz intel processor with 64-bit win 7 ultimate. I am installing 32 bit ver of ubuntu 10.10...!
View 4 Replies View RelatedUbuntu install offers the option of automatically logging one in at startup.If you choose this option, you are logged in automatically. However, you are still asked for your password, to unlock your keyring. So all you have done, is saved yourself one click (or one key press of the enter-key).The downside, is that there is no delay of your automatically started programs that maybe wait for you to log in. These can start using improperly initialized resources - like the keyring, I suppose.
In my case, this has resulted in the sound system failing. Restart then resulted in the sound being restored but the Trash folder going missing and so on. Finally, the Quit button on the task bar vanished forever. Perhaps I have identified the cause incorrectly, but that is my assessment and therefore I recommend not to use this login option.I am running 10.4 Gnome 64 bit. The program I started automatically, was Evolution.
I was going through some settings and inadvertently changed the UID for my primary logon. I then realized what I did and changed it back and set the group back to my username.Since then, it only auto-logs in on startup. I cannot get it to prompt for a password again. I've tried normal things like changing "ask for password on login" and then changing it back, but that hasn't helped. I'm sure there's something else that I'm missing, but don't know what it is. Right now, it says "asked on login" but it doesn't.
View 4 Replies View Relatedhave a question about auto-login scripts for SSH where RSA keypair authentication is used.Basically, I have a server (say, server1) configured with RSA keypair authentication. This server is connected to another server (server2), that I connect to via server1 and for which I use the same passphrase and public key as I use for server1. I was wondering if it is possible without writing out the passphrase in a file to "forward" the phrase on from server1 to server2 in an auto-login script, saving me having to type it in twice
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow to setup Lubuntu through openbox auto login?
View 2 Replies View Relatedhow do I switch from auto logging in to the menu?I want to make this change via a terminal. ( I know how to do it from the gui )
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have a script need to auto run before login. i have tried to add it in /etc/rc.local and using update-rc.d, both failed.
/etc/rc.local
has update link from dash to bash
#! /bin/sh
[code]...
I upgraded Ubuntu to 9.10 and tried to log in, it worked that is until it freezes up and the only way out is to hit the restart button.
Note: I CAN log in with Failsafe Gnome.