I need to access the shell prompt rather than GUI of Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Sp1 wherein installation is successfull. Now i have downloaded PuTTy to my WinXP Desktop. So by what IP can i connect with Ubuntu Shell. How to configure IP in both Ubuntu and in Windows XP so that this will look like i am accessing the shell remotely.
View 8 RepliesI just downloaded MySQL-Workbench and I see it in the folder: Code: /usr/bin how do I access it from my desktop without having to tie up my bash shell because the only way I can get to it right now is
Code:
cd /usr/bin
mysql-workbench
and only when I close the program can I use my bash for anything else.
Is there any way I can switch my desktop shell from unity to, say, gnome-shell? I can switch using other console shell I like (bash, csh, fish, etc.). Assume that there is a stable alternative desktop shell, I should be able to choose, too.
(For console shell, we goes to /etc/passwd. But for desktop, I can't find the way to config.)
Running Ubuntu 9.10. In the Remote Desktop config dialog I get: "Your desktop is only reachable over the local network. Others can access your computer using the address 127.0.0.1 or tabatha.local." I understand this means only the loopback ip address is available. All my other machines show their true local ip address (e.g., 192.168.1.104) in this dialog. Thus I cannot log on to this desktop from other machines.
When I try to do a remote logon from another Ubuntu 9.10 box (or from an XP box using a VNC viewer), I get: "Connection to 192.168.1.102 has been closed." What steps are needed to make this machine show its actual ip address? All file sharing between the various machines is working properly and all windows shares back and forth between XP and 'nix, and among the the vaious XP boxes and linux boxes are available as designed.
How can I access files of my Windows desktop from Ubuntu desktop while using Ubuntu?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI can't remotely access my desktop when the desktop is asking for a keyring password. Why does this happen? it means that remote access is useless because you would need to enter the password locally before you can vnc to it. I do not wish to disable the default keyring but is there a way of making vnc work so I can enter the password.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhat's the command to access a secure shell?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI would like to configure my Ubuntu as to start Gnome without a Desktop; instead, I would like to have a graphical shell taking the whole screen, but keeping all the other functionalities of the GUI.
It doesn't really have to be Gnome - I would gladly take any GUI with the above-mentioned description that would open Firefox, Amaya and Calibre.
I am trying to save some memory with a feeble Acer Aspire One that is solely used for browsing the web (Firefox), editing webpages (Amaya), and creating .mobi files.
how to replace the Desktop with a shell or taking a different approach?
P.S.: I looked at the Ubuntu Netbook Remix and the soon-to-be-released Gnome Shell, but they are not what I am looking for!
permanently open BASH Shell open, on the side of the GUI. This would mean re-sizing the GUI... You would basically have a divider between the shell, and the GUI, so that you could resize either, depending on which you were working with more. For some programs, which open a new shell (aeroscript for example), that stays open behind the GUI, or has an ASCII "GUI", the program would simply open in a tab of the shell. The main shell would be dynamic; meaning that whenever you selected a new window in your GUI, the shell would automatically cd to that directory, in order to save some time. This would be especially useful when editing many files at once with a text editor such as Nano or VI. Alternatively, there could be a different shell tab open for each session of the file explorer. This however, could get quite cluttered. It's still a pretty raw idea. I did some Googling, and so far haven't come up with any similar ideas or actualities." This should also have options as to which shell you would like to install with it (BASH, KSH, ZSH, etc.)
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a laptop IBM R50e. A clean install using 10.04.1 has been done, and all updates have been loaded. At boot, the system does not start the desktop. It tries and drops into the shell. I have started the recovery boot, and tried failsafeX start, but it only returns into the shell.
The boot parameter i915.modeset=1 has been set. There are a number of issues with the Intel graphics card and 10.04, I have been through those without success.
The modeset makes it possible to start some graphical environmrnt using xinit or startx. startx starts gnome, but lot of functionality is missing, like the network applet. Additionally I notice that there is no file /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket, which my other laptop has when in gnome.
Started gdm when being in the graphical shell through xinit, gives the error message that /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket is missing.
I have a users, that log in from a terminal. They should not have any shell access, so currently their login script, at the end, starts the program that they use, and after that program ends, the login script moves on to log them back out. The problem is, they could press ctrl+c, while the login script is running, and it quits the login script and spits them out at a shell prompt. -- Is there any way I can prevent this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIm want to know the command to add a user with no shell access so they cannot log onto the system, but there a user on there so for example they can be part of the email server.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a secure way to backup data from user's computers ( Linux/Windows ).My needs :
1. Secure
2. Per user backups
3. Windows/Linux compatible ( server will be Linux only )
4. Incremental backups
My preferences :
1. Rsync
Things I can not do :
1. Give out shell access ( forget rsync -e ssh )
2. Use a protocol that takes too many ports ( my box is behind my router ).
I have installed Kubuntu 10.04 x64 from scratch using the alternate installation CD and unfortunately I'm experiencing some serious troubles. Everything worked fine, installed packages, moved my backed-up data to my encrypted /home partition - until I rebooted. Usually I reboot the system right after the installation process to see if the boot process shows any errors, but what can I say, seems like I forgot to do it this time .
The problem is that the boot process just "hangs" right before the login window should disappear. By "hang" I mean dead: no switching to virtual terminals, no CTRL-ALT-DEL - the system just freezes.
I'm quite familiar with doing things shell-wise, so I started the "Rescue Mode" from the alternate CD and was able to mount my root partition.
Problem #1: No faulty log entries whatsoever: dmesg, boot.log, messages etc. all looking fine - except Xorg.0.log. I suspect the proprietary Nvidia drivers to be the culprit here, because what I'm getting is: "Caught signal 11 (Segmentation Fault). Server aborting"
Running "startx" as root from the rescue shell gives the same results: complete system freeze. "Looks like a reinstallation candidate, let's just backup my data" I thought, which brings us to
Problem #2: I can't mount my encrypted /home from the rescue shell. The exact steps involved are:
Mount my root partition and chroot to it. Issuing "ecryptfs-mount-private" gives the following error message: "ERROR: Encrypted private directory is not setup properly" Becoming my user "su - faulty" and trying step 2 again yields the same results. I feel like I'm almost there: I'm executing commands in my root environment, just can't seem to access my data which I'd like to backup before doing a clean reinstall. Any thoughts?
I installed bitnami lampstack for vmware. When I run it, the vmware starts in ubuntu shell. How can I open the gui desktop of ubuntu from there?
There is a similar thread.
I tried the suggestions in that thread.
I first tried code...
Or do you know any vmware ready package for LAMP with graphical user interface already installed?
I use this command line to add an FTP user:
useradd ftpuser1 -d /userdir
This works, but I don't want to give Shell access to the users.
I tried this:
useradd ftpuser1 -d /userdir -s /sbin/nologin
but then user can't login at all - not into FTP and not into Shell.
how to integrate SSH Shell access of a Linux Server with Microsoft AD?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any easy way to do that in gnome shell with a key shortcut or setting it up like in gnome2 days with a hotspot?
ctrl + alt + d - should minimise all windows and focus the desktop - but it's not working for me?
After having been a Gnome user since initial release in 1999, I have now upgraded to Gnome3. I figured despite everyone's moaning, over 10 years of a successful desktop means I should give it a fair go.
One thing: If I have a music player such as Rhythmbox open, how can I change track without breaking my current task focus and heading to "Activities" now that the notification area icon is no more? I change track alot, do I really want to change windows to do it?
I have remote location Linux running (CentOS 6.0). It has dynamic ip address so i installed noip2 service and copied the file cp redhat.noip2.sh /etc/profile.d/noip.sh. After that when the system restarted once, it never have the correct shell. As a result remotely when i try to ssh the server i cant login and i cant do anything.When i debug the ssh i see that debug1: Authentication succeeded (password). and command is also sent but nothing just happen.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a CentOS dedicated server running ProFTP. I have created user accounts which are meant for FTP access only but the users cannot connect to the FTP unless their shell access is /bin/bash
Here is an example line that is outputted when I use this command:
This user can access the FTP fine, but he can also access SSH which I don't want to allow him to do. If I set his shell access to /bin/false then he can't connect to the FTP.
What can I use in instead of /bin/bash to allow FTP but don't allow SSH?
I am setting up my test / development machine with the following scenario in mind : I boot the machine and then select one of a number ( e.g. 3 ) boot options in Grub ( Normally "OpenSuse", "Safe Mode" etc., but in this case "System Restore Dev.", "System Restore Test" ). The only difference between these options are the settings ( e.g. "vga=378" ) in these cases something like "distro=dev" / "distro=test".
In a script run on the booted system I can extract the value of the "distro" parameter ( in this case "test" ) and use it as input for a command line tool. Meaning that name entered as the value for the "distro" parameter is used for loading a file when the system is up and running. The command line tool then restores the partition with the contents of the file and reboots the system.Now, my problem is this : How to I access the Grub arguments? Code snippets ( in shell scripting or python preferbly ) are more than welcome.
Do I have a printer installation utility I can access through the shell? I tried installing/configuring my parallel port HP DeskJet 712C through CUPS using xfce but they didn't list my printer.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI work for AT&T and our Windows-centric workgroup is being tasked with supporting an app running on RedHat. To help my coworkers, I'm building a Fedora 11 VM that we can play with to familiarize ourselves with the UNIX environment.
Because of corporate network policies in place, my VM can't get access to the Internet.
Since we're AT&T employees, we're naturally using the korn shell on the production system. I'd like to install the korn shell on my VM. However, it doesn't appear to be part of the base fedora repository.
Is the korn shell available for Fedora? If so, how would I copy it to shiny media, mount it on my VM, and install it?
I'm having a hard time to access MySQL from the local or remote shell.
If I try to access MySQL, using mysql -u root -pxxxx I get the error 1045 Access denied...
MySQL is running and I can access it, using phpmyadmin.
There must be something blocking shell access. Can anybody confirm and tell me how to check/configure for shell access?
I'm using ca preconfigured CenOS from PBX in a flash and it seems they did some security settings - but I can't find any further information.
I know I should probably post there, but the Mods didn't activate my account yet. And you know how it is if you try to figure something out. You won't stop.
I have lost some icons from my desktop, they are, firefox, yast, thunderbird, emacs, the space and the names are still there, and when I hover the mouse over the space, it is highlighted as it should be. The application opens and runs as normal when I click on the space where the icon should be. The icons are also missing from the favorites bar on the left side and also from the panel top left when the app is running.I have tried, rebuilding the icon cache in 'usr/share/icons/hicolor', and also all othercon caches for that matter, and no difference. I tried uninstalling and installing the app, no differenence. I tried changing themes and icons from Tweak Tool, no difference. As far as I can see the icons are there in the hicolor directory
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with KDM. No matter what I do, it will not give me access to my desktop. (Yes, I have entered the correct password, and I know that because when I intentionally enter a wrong one, I get red lines saying so). I have tried in recovery mode, other kernels, and the failsafe session. Console login does work. I have seen another similar thread and followed some instructions, but it was about GDM and it didn't work out.
I have ran genkdmconf, but to no avail (except it gave me a new face icon ). My other operating systems (Windows Vista and Ubuntu 11.04) do work normally. [EDIT: I do have an idea what's causing this because yesterday I flashed my BIOS from A11 to A17. I don't think this is the cause of the problem though, but some of you may disagree]. Of course it's not my first preference, but if a reinstall is necessary, I am one of the lucky few with a separate /home.
Today i installed the latest version of ubuntu. While working, the monitor went to standby and a popup window came, saying that in running in low graphics mode.Later i tried to create a new folder on desktop, but it seems like it friezed (only the desktop, everything else is working).How to solve this problem with the desktop.
View 2 Replies View RelatedDon't know if I have a glitch or if I deleted something while dinkin' around. Anyway, I boot to the desktop and I have desktop icons but no panels at all. Alt+F2 does not work. I think CTRL+ALT+F2 gave me "run" window. "Sudo gnome-panel &" did nothing. "Init 1" gave me a "init 1" screen but I couldn't accomplish anything there for lack of know-how. Reinstalling is no big deal at all for me but I wish I could accomplish something geeky like a repair. I'm not sure of the process for using a live cd.
View 6 Replies View RelatedFor the past few weeks my system has been exhibiting some strange behavior. The first of these instances has been in the form of a total system lockup necessitating a power cycle -- ie. no kernel panic or oops, but cessation of all on-screen activity and an unresponsive mouse and keyboard. ( The first lockup occurred when the monitor was powered down)
Just a few days ago, I started noticing something else : Launching Firefox (3.6.4pre) resulted in it locking up near start-up especially if I was logged into Gmail. After that I experienced a total system lockup and then another one which has placed me in the situation as suggested in the title.
Specifically, KDM and the KDM login manager will start-up and I will be allowed to type my password. Immediately after that when the first of the icons in the KDE start-up animation starts to come into focus the screen goes black and I am returned to the KDM login manager -- I can enter my password again and continue this process ad infinitum.
Trying to diagnose the issue, I attached GDB to KDM. It seems that after I enter my password one or more of the KDE start-up processes dies with signal 1 or to be more specific :
Code:
Program received signal SIGUSR1, User defined signal 1.
0x00007f4ae742d3c3 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt full
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