trying to change the user name of the live cd.I have edited the /etc/casper.conf file in the chroot environment but when i run the cd ubuntu is still the user name. Where should i change it?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 x64 as a base for my custom live cd and i could not change the username. I changed my /etc/casper.conf and /etc/lsb_release, yet still nothing changes. Is this achieved with casper/ubiquity and preseeding at all?
i'm trying to run ubuntu 9.10 64-bit on my 64-bit machine from a live cd, when i boot from the disk i select ENGLISH and the first option on the menu, which is try ubuntu without making any changes (or something to that effect). it then goes off to the black screen with the white ubuntu symbol, following that the brown login window appears requesting a user mane and password, now as its a live cd session i have not set a user name or password! so how do i login?
I would like to know is there anyway to change the current username to something new? It doesn't appear to allow it via the settings on user accounts, for some reason. (Blanked out) Theres gotta be a way to do it surely? (Using 9.10 NBR Btw cheers.
I just downloaded Debian's live CD .iso file. I put it on a USB stick and booted from it. It loads everything then presents me a login screen. I have no idea what the login and password is I've looked all over google and people said it was user: live pass: live or something like that. I've tried a lot of different combinations with no luck. So does anyone know the real username and password for this?
i followed the instructions in http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...5&postcount=11 result was that my pc is rendered unusable. i have no graphical interface when logging in. i can call only the terminal. i have a terminal with the new username before the bash command line, but the user_folder in home is still the old_username. my mistake was, as i discovered later, is that i followed the instructions not in recovery mode.question is, how can i make it all right again, and make my ubuntu to function normally again?
i have problem on my ubuntu 10.10 after i change user name to root and home directory username ( old one ) , and now users and groups not working asnd all application on old user not working !
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit. Sometimes I have difficulty starting X. The system complains that "/etc/timidity" is not owned by me. Then the system locks up. I checked the permissions. 'root' is both owner and group. Should I change the permissions to my username and/or my usernamegroup? Or, chown and chgrp to root again? I would experiment on my own with this, but since the system already locks up sometimes, I don't want to find myself with an unusable system.
Not sure how this happened, but my Print-to-file always automatically displays "File System" as the default save location.Does anybody know how to change this back to save by default to ~/username
So I'm trying to put together a birthday present for my girlfriend. Here's the background. She just got back from a semester abroad in Rome. She's having a hard time getting used to living in the states again, so I want to make her a photo album with all of her pictures from Italy and the rest of Europe. Its a surprise, so I can't just get them from her. I've got her Time Machine, which has all the photos on it (I'm 'debugging' it for her, she's not so tech savvy). I've found the pictures folder, but I don't have the permissions to access it.
So the question is, I have her username and password, what do I have to do in order to read the file with all the pictures in it? I'm not a crazy stalker, in case you were wondering, I just don't know how to change my username to one that have permissions for the folder.
When ssh-ing (using putty, if that's relevant), I sometimes mis-type my username, and hit enter before I realise my mistake. Once prompted for a password, is there a a way to go back and re-enter my username rather than having to close the console and open a new one?
I would like to change my username (or login name) and am wondering what the safest route to do so is. The install is on a headless server, which I just use ssh.There's a) using usermod -l newname oldname. The line in the usermod man that says that changing the login name doesn't change anything else, which makes me think that something else is bound to break. I've also considered b) creating a new user, moving the contents of my home directory to the new user, and deleting the old user. This is kind of cumbersome, but would this be the recommended way to ensure everything goes well (considering I still have to redo some config files).
I would like to ask you how I can convert the file permissions of a tar.gz file. I have one tar.gz file when I try to extract I get the following output
Cannot change ownership to uid 3361, gid 5000: Permission denied
hi to all, i am a newbie in linux and i am using CentOS 5 and our office just transferred this responsibility on my job and still have no idea on how to change the username and password on squint. the one incharge was already resigned and did not turn-over the procedures.
how I managed this, but somehow during a reinstall I changed the ownership of all my home stuff to root, instead of my normal username. So now nothing loads, unless I sudo it. I had to use sudo just to open firefox.
out with how to change the username and password given while installation.could not login .just now i installed and try tologin but due to some mistake i lost the password. how to change that one
I am using Ubuntu Live CD. I want to set a partition as active partition in my laptop which is not booting up right now. How can i set a partitoion as active through Ubuntu Live CD?
I recently installed vsftpd on my server. I noticed that users on the machine can login into vsftpd with their username and password on the machine and go to their root dir "/home/username".Now, I want to give some people a vsftpd username and password so they can upload and download files and folders to their folder, but this folder has to be in the "/var/www/(username)" folder. I don't want them to be able to go to any other folder than their own folder like "/var", "/etc" or "/home" etc. Also I don't want them to be able to login on the machine as a user, through putty for example. They should only be allowed to acces their folder with vsftpd, nothing else.
My system won't boot because the contents of /etc/fstab, while semantically valid, are not meaningful in my system - neither / or /home is defined, for example.For this reason too fsck will not run.
The grub menu displays OK.How do I rebuild fstab?How do I get permission to change any files on my system when using the Live-CD? Right now all attempts are stopped with a 'permission denied' message.
How can I change or erase windows XP password from Ubuntu Live (11.04) booted on the PC in question? I reckon it should be possible, at least it is possible to do so to another Ubuntu installation, but I never knew how to do it to XP.
The code runs fine and Ubuntu loads also from the ISO stored in the C: drive of my system.
The problem is when Ubuntu loads it changes my clock time. I have set the timezone to Indian Standard Time. Since it is live CD it should not make any changes in the system however, it does change the Data/Time of my system.
Howto change default editor by live usb-hdd creation? Normally, I can change from the command line:# update-alternatives --config editorbut howto put it into live config?