I have a Lucid machine that is driving me bonkers by constantly locking the desktop screen, forcing me to enter my password each time to unlock it. I have looked everywhere but cannot find out where to change this setting.
View 2 RepliesI am running Ubuntu 11.04 on a dual boot with Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit) Dell Inspiron 560s.
As long as I am engaged in activity in Ubuntu all is well. However, if I leave my computer to get a cup of coffee I find on my return the computer screen is blank and when I activate it a window comes up asking me to enter my password to take it out of lockout, leave a message etc.
I can't seem to find the appropriate command to increase the time before I get locked out.
What steps can I take to increase the time the system stays active before I am kicked out and have enter my password again?
how to change the style of the time and date shown on the panel for Karmic Koala? As shown on my attached screenshot located at the upper right corner, it does not show the year which is a bit vexing and I cannot figure it out how to change it.
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However just for general knowledge and in case that isn't the problem, how does one go seeing what is happening during the time from when one log's in and the desktop is displayed? Is there some kind of log that shows the date/time that can be enabled or is there a debug mode that can be enabled somehow via special keys or maybe from grub?
Under a Linux shell, how can I change the creation time of all a folder's files to the current time?
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Is there a way to force it to sync with my domain controler or even another online NTP server?
anyone know how to turn off or adjust the lockout feature in ubuntu.I am running the new 10.04. With this feature after I am idle for time til I am brought back to the login screen, this is very annoying for me and I have to keep unlocking multiple times a day.Hopefully there is a way to configure this behavior.I am note sure if this is something specirfic to 10.04.
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The problem is when watching a video F15 Gnome decides to send me to the unlock screen. Think that's what it's called. So I have to type in my pass.
A little bit later, same thing. So how can I prevent it from happening?
I was considering adding the below to my RHEL5 system's /etc/pam.d/system-auth file.
password required pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 minlen=8
dcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 ocredit=-1 lcredit=0
auth required pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
[code]...
I am using Red Hat LDAP (version 3) and I have passwordLockout set as "on" at global level. Is there a way to disable account lockout for a specific user?
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Ever since upgrading to 10.04 my desktop time displays the logon time and doesn't update.
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I assume I will need two videocards. But other than that, is this fairly straight forward, or is it difficult?
One of my favorite features of gnome is the integrated world time int he clock. Just add multiple locations, and you have world time, and it's always a click a way.My question is, can kubuntu be set up in the same way?
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The following command seems to be the recommended way to subtract 1 hour from all .JPG files in the directory, but the exif data in the file and even the time stamps don't change.
Code:
exiftool -a -AllDates -=01:00 .
I want to change the Date and Time of the system from my application. This can be done using the "Date -s" linux command. But the application has to be executed as root/sudo. is it possible that root can give permission to normal user to execute the "Date -s" command?
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