i find it really annoying to type in my password every time i run update manager. it is a stupid feature, i shouldn't have to type it in if i want to make my computer better. how can i disable it?
View 4 RepliesHow do I disable certain updates in the update manager? I don't want to install the open office uno runtime environment because I installed the rpm packages from the open office website. This update corrupts my installation of open office and I always have to reinstall it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am using Kde 4.5 in Debian and I get some notifications after start that I need to update something. How can I disable it (I often don't want to waste bandwidth for such things)? I am using Debian Wheezy and Kde 4.5
View 1 Replies View Relatedcould any one please help, i am trying to update the Ubuntu , but when i click to install the updates, i get asked for a password, but i don't remember using a password option when installing Ubuntu. Is there a way around this problem?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI plan to install Ubuntu on an older laptop for my grandmother. Is there a way to allow Ubuntu system updates without having to enter a password? I don't want her to run as root, I plan not to tell her the root password so that she doesn't accidentally do something bad.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have ubuntu 9.10 on my machine. Haven't used it for ages and no longer have password to install updates through update manager. I want to install 11.04 which i have downloaded but can't install it because i didn't install all the previous updates and don't have that password. My question is how do i uninstall 9.10 completely so that i can start from scratch with 11.04.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI know, I know, its a security feature. That doesn't make it any less annoying. I find the constant asking for my password to be every bit as irritating as Windows's UAC. When I want to use the terminal, or when I want to download something, I don't want to have to enter my password every time. I don't care that someone could theoretically do something to my computer in some way. I managed to stay out of harms way in windows with UAC off, I'm sure I can do it in ubuntu without the constant nagging of the password prompts. Its annoying and I am tired of dealing with it. Anyone know how to turn it off? I am really not looking for reasons to leave it on. Its the same with UAC: Yeah, it can keep you out of trouble. No, I don't want it on.
View 9 Replies View RelatedJust made a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04.1.It is quite annoying that I have to write the password to the POP3 server, every time i check for mail(It is not the default keyring).How to disable the password check for mail?If it not possible, i have to install another mail program.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhenever I type in Sudo in my terminal, it asks for a Sudo password.. I have not set one up and I don't know what the sudo password is.. Can you disable it or change it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have been experiencing harassment with my websites being hacked so pardon me if this is an over-paranoid question.
Just recently started on FC11 after having abandoned Fedora for CentOS for a few months. So glad to be back, but...
I have been getting notices about security updates. When I click for the update, I am not asked for the root password and the update occurs.
I have to always log into my keyring. Unlock Login Keyring comes up when bring up the computer. The unlock login Keyring does not get unlocked when I log in. How can I get the login process to fully log on when I am not around? When I run vista (windows) I never have to login to a keyring to give a password to get passed the Internet process. I have to always do this with Ubuntu 10.04.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with ssh.I followed this guide:and no matter what I try, I still can't disable password authentication. I want users to require a private key to prevent from brute force hackers.
View 6 Replies View RelatedRunning Lucid. Every time I hibernate, when I come back, it requires entering a password. I would like to disable this.In the config editor, under apps -> gnome-power-manager -> lock, I've already unchecked _everything_ there, and it still asks me for a password after hiberate.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI click on the corresponding checkbox in users and groups but but it doesn't do anything. I also want to disable password prompts in general. Also when I try using Computer Janitor it says it could not complete and to check if other package managers are open, but none are.
View 9 Replies View RelatedHow to disabling Encryption keys ?(ubuntu 10.10)
View 3 Replies View RelatedCan I disable the password prompt after I come out of suspend. I remember a setting in the last release but I can't find it in 11.04. Is this setting still there? Where can I find it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have fresh install of SuSe11.2 64x My software updater applet tells me there are about 50 or so updates required. I check all and then click install, get prompted for admin password but then nothing happens except the software updater window closes and if I hover my mouse over the applet it tells me it is updating.
however hours later and nothing appears to have happened. If I click the updater applet all the selected updates still appear in the update window. I have added all the standard repos and have network connectivity. I'm a bit baffled here - it worked perfectly fine on my last 11.2 on the same machine.
Is it possible to completely disable the password change for users accounts in linux?? (I don't mind account lock)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI find out there are two ways to do that:
sudo passwd -l root
sudo usermod -p root
What are the different? I saw a kubuntu post said:
-l, --lock
Lock the named account. This option disables an account by changing the password to a value which matches no possible encrypted value. I enable and set a root password, I want to return to a "no possible encrypted value" just like the way it was.
So after tinkering for a while, I was able to configure ssh for private/public key authentication and disabled Password-Authentication. In the past I had some issues with people brute force trying passwords/usernames so I want to avoid this, but I need some form of secure FTP that now doesn't work due to the aforementioned setting.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm currently running two computers running Karmic (one was upgraded from Jaunty), and both are running Samba servers. Before I upgraded from Jaunty, I was running Linpopup for a simple Winpopup program to just send and receive Winpopup messages. Afterwards, it was removed due to a lack of support, so I installed it manually, finding all the required packages on the Ubuntu Package List site.
My current problem is that running Code: smbclient -M [network-name] asks for a password before it will let me enter my message, which means that I have to add my password on the first line of my message in Linpopup. My question is, why do I have to enter a password just to send a Winpopup message between computers and how do I disable this? None of the documentation I've found so far indicates anything about fixing it, let alone that the problem exists.
How can I disable the password request when i login? Not the password for the user but the password to connect to the net?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow do I disable sudo password for nano editor in my box ? I've already tried this following line in /etc/sudoers. But I haven't logged off or rebooted the box maybe this is why it did not work.
user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/nano
so for example when I try to edit file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf I run nano /etc/nginx/nfingx.conf
or this won't work because nginx.conf file belongs to root ?
I'm the only user of my PC and as of upgrading to 10.04, I get a login screen, that requests only a password, when the PC goes idle.
View 8 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to disable password masking in Linux - specifically Linux Mint 9?
Ideally I'd like to be able to choose whether to mask or unmask password fields on-the-fly, as is possible when entering passphrases in TrueCrypt.
Sometimes masking is useful (say, on a laptop in public), but often it's totally unnecessary - there's no-one looking at the screen but me, so there's no point to it.
When I try to do software updates in Debian Gnome 7.8 it asks for my root password. I try my usual login password but it does not work. I don't recall setting two different passwords when I installed Debian. What can I do now?
View 14 Replies View RelatedWas just wondering if there was a way to disable the password prompts that pop open every time I try to install something. Is there a way to do that?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI set up a debian lenny in vmware on my windows machine. The network interface is set to bridged, so the virtual machine is connected directly to the university network i am connected to. I want to be able to ssh into the vm.I installed sshd via "apt-get install ssh", generated a key pair with puttygen and copied the public part to "/home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys", set rights to 600 and then tried to disable password authentication completely, following the "securing debian" documentation.this is how my /etc/ssh/sshd_config looks now:
# Package generated configuration file
# See the sshd(8) manpage for details
# What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for
[code]...
just started using Debian today and I would like to know how can I disable the user acount password, I am the only user on this computer so I would like it to boot strait into my account.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to disable password authentication completely? The command line is the following:
ssh -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PasswordAuthentication=no machine"
it STILL asks for a password. Of course I would like to do this without touching the server, if possible.