I tried both usermod as su and System->Administration->Users and Groups but I keep getting an error saying the user is logged in (which is true). so what am I supposed to do? I don't want to open another user just for that...
View 2 RepliesHow do you open a program, in this instance "Zenmap", from the desktop in a user account when it requires root privileges? Is there a way to be prompted for the password, the same way, for instance, you're prompted when mounting a new file system or making a change to the system? I tried entering 'sudo /usr/bin/zenmap' when creating the shortcut, however that didn't work.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIf there's some file, how can i forbid user to open it ? Ex. some text file or video file and forbid regular users (except root) to open/play it . Wouldn't chmod work here or should i use some other method ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis netbook only has a user with non-administrative privs on it and root user but I do not have root's password.Is there a way that I can create a new administrative user of change the current user's group so that it can do sudo commands or have more privs?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have this problem, however the solution given there is outdated- There is no such menu entry (I tried to see if it was disabled, but it wasn't in the menu editor either).
So how would I do this in Karmic?
Edit: I found it. As a reference: Open Nautilus, go to Edit-> Preferences -> "Media" tab -> Photos -> Your choice.
I automount two NTFS volumes on login. These display in both the desktop and the Unity launcher.
The first time I clicked one of them in the Unity launcher, it asked if I wanted to use Nautilus or Thunar. I chose Thunar.
Now, when I open the volumes in the Unity launcher, it always uses Thunar. When I open the volumes on my desktop, it always uses Nautilus.
Is there any way to standardize these, so that I use either Thunar or Nautilus, but not both? And how do I switch back and forth? Where can I reset the Unity launcher to use Nautilus again?
I have a MP3 player which is owned by Root. I have tried the following: in terminal - chown as both my usual log-in and root operation not permitted. I ran chown as both su, root, and myself. In Nautilus - I can't change any of the file attributes again opening it as any of the users above. I used to be able to copy files over to the MP3 player but not the Sandisk but not I can't copy or do anything to the files on both.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to add 50 new users, not on the server yet I want to add them all to group Accounting - with 1 option, not user by user I want to setup a default password for them all, and have it say something like 'You must now change password or no access will be permitted' Any other options I also want to do once, not for each user?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI 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?
How do I disable and change the user password using SSH on a Linux
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a Linux command that can change ownership of all files belonging to a given user,preferably in a targeted directory, to another specified user. My dream command would look something like this. chuser -R --olduser tom --newuser jerry
This is my scenario... I have a backup file (.tgz) with user and group information preserved in it. It was taken from a web server running Apache and MySQL. The files in the backup are from across the system and contain files from several different users and several system type accounts and it is key that when restored on the new server the settings are not lost. The problem is that the users on the machine the files are being restored to don't match the ones in the backup file. For instance both machines had a MySQL user but they have different user ids and there are several user ids that existed on both machines that belong to different users. This means there is no way to sync the users on the new machine to the ones on the old machine. I can find all the users files with the find command like this...
find /decompressed-backup-dir -uid 1050
or
find /decompressed-backup-dir -user tom
If, as I suspect, there is no way to do what I want with a single command then perhaps there is a way to pipe the results of the find command to another command to handle the ownership change?
I could do this with a PHP script but there are 4GB and tens of thousands of files in the backup so I don't want to use PHP or Perl but I would be happy with a shell script that could handle it.
i am using Fedora 14. Once system get hanged during opening a video file so I had to restart the system by pressing restart button. But after restarting there are few problems appearing like system monitor not opening and Thunder bird opening but not showing any folder including inbox.
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Looks like SElinux has stopped working
One of the apps I would like to try out is usenext.Selectint the download for the right version (Linux - Suse, Red Hat, Fedora) I get the rpm file.Either opening this straight away or saving then opening it comes back with the following errors:
usenext-5.27-1.i386 requires mono(gdk-sharp) = 2.10.0.0
usenext-5.27-1.i386 requires unrar
usenext-5.27-1.i386 requires mono(glib-sharp) = 2.10.0.0
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Is 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
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've tried both the GUI and the terminal to change my user's password and both are failing. I'm running 9.10 with current updates.
In the GUI, I type in the current password and it recognises it. I then type in the new password twice. Upon clicking change password it hangs.
In the terminal I use "passwd". I type in current password. I then type in the new password twice, but an error of:
Code:
I've even changed the new password to another something different (with NO special characters), and it still fails.
Are there certain characters I should NOT have in a password, such as /#/ or /;/?
I 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 RelatedI-m running the livecd, I open a terminal, it appears as user
ubuntu@ubuntu
I want to change to my Ubuntu user
me@me-desktop
so that i can upgrade a package that i broke via dpkg. how can I switch to my user?
I have a disk going bad and couldn't boot Lucid, so I used Virtualbox on Win7 to create a temporary Kubuntu machine to work getting data from my failing drive. Because it was a temp setup, I did not enable root login.
I logged into Linux at Virtualbox, plugged in my failing drive, and began working on moving stuff over using Konsole. The failing drive was mounted on /media/linux. At some point, trying to do some experimenting, I did a sudo chmod 0400 /media/linux. All hell broke loose. No commands would work. No access to /bin/mv or /bin/ls.....no ability to change directories. It was as though the chmod had been applied to the entire root folder. I double-checked my command...no spaces between / and media.
I figured Virtualbox had gone screwy, so I shut down the machine and re-booted. Cannot log in - cannot change to /home/<user>.
If this were a real disk partition, I would simply boot the Kubuntu CD and chmod again. But this is on the VM. I had already backed most of my stuff to the VM!
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 choosing, as administrator, a User Name and a User Short Name. Now, I would like to change those names and I manage to do it with the first, but not with the second, the Short Name. At the same time, I would like to give the same new name to my personal folder in /home. Is it possible to do all that?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAfter today's sudo upgrade on Karmic amd64, I am able to login only as root on my xubuntu system. Tried to change password on my user account but the result is the same.
View 3 Replies View RelatedJust intalled Ubuntu 10.4 but one of my partitions /media/extra is owned by root, i would like to chance the owner to my user. I've tried sudo chown -Rf username:usergroup /media/extra but i stil have no permissions.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI upgraded to 10.04 and now again in 10.10 I have no sound after changing users. The other user has user privileges for sound.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having dificulting with www-data as the user for apache2. I would like to change the user to my desktop user so that I can limit access to one unknown users. I am also having problems with my wordpress website and the permalink settings. which file I should look at modifing and what I need to modify?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have an admin-account and an user-account on a computer. It's automatically log in to the user-account, but I have forgott the passwordt. I want to change it, but to how change it? I need the precent. How do i do? I have the admin password.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn Ubuntu, I run Compiz/Metacity, but I also have wmii installed. I know how to change to wmii for a one-time log in, but I don't know how to make it default for specific user.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a uid that I need to change however I need to know the process of doing so as this user is a vital user that has ownership of several running pids on this server. (webserver)
This user (admin) has a uid of 1003 on this server (server-A). However, on all our other servers (server-B-G)the uid is 1001. The reason for changing the uid is that the nfs mount that is mounted on server-A and on all the servers does not work right due to the uid difference. We have diagnosed to this point.
My question ... admin is the owner of several running pids.
So in order to change the uid, do I need to:
- stop ALL pids owned by admin
- >usermod -u 1001 admin
- then start back up the jobs that admin runs
I have verified that there are no files/dirs owned by uid 1003 but the ownership is admin.
I can run a find >find / -uid 1003 - to locate any orphaned files/dirs before I start back up any jobs that require admin ownership.
Then >chown the file/dir.
Does this appear to be a viable plan to get this uid corrected?
I have installed tftpd on Ubuntu, but I think it not secure very much. So I read its manual, and it says: The server should have the user ID with the lowest possible privilege. I find the server has the root UID:
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how to change the icons for users in UNE (from the grey mannequin-esque icon)....this is possible, right?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu Server and want to change the default user name to increase the difficulty of accessing the server.Is it possible to do this? If not, can I effect the same change by creating a new user and transferring over permissions, files, and etc.?
View 7 Replies View RelatedJust did a new netbook install of Lucid. Went through the setup, putting in my usual username etc. But I thought as it's a portable, I'd better select the encrypted home folder option. All went OK.
I have a home network with a NAS and I needed to change the UID to 1004 to match the rest of the network.
That's when it all when wrong. If I do that, I end up with no permissions on the user folder. A bit of a paradox, you can't change UID if logged in, but unless you're logged in, can't access the files.
My attempts to get around it by changing UID's back chowning, changing back etc. have screwed things up completely.
I have managed to open the encrypted folder and chown, but after a reboot it's all back to the original UIDs, but now I can't get in at all.