I have just reloaded 10.04 and its doing something ubuntu never did before if i leave computer for about 5min and come back it wants me to use password to get back onto desk top how do i uninstall this feature i know i have to at log in use password thats ok ,
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I have a packardbell pc desk top and the fan has stopped working. Is it an easy enough fix for me to do it myself it install a new fan? I dont have much experance so dont want to do any damage.
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a friend who just recently got an old computer from a college. The college had been shut down for maybe 6 months and decided to sell all their equipment computer ETC. In that amount of time the college had forgotten the administrator passwords for all the computers. Therefore the computer can not be updated or upgraded to the latest version of Ubuntu.Is there anyway possible to get the administrator password so that I may update upgrade and install new necessary components for the computer?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI had remote desk running on a machine and I went downstairs the other day, turned it on, and someone was controlling the machine. Of course that's partially my fault since there was -zero- rd password set. However, my question is how did this person figure out my IP and get past the router to the machine? I don't have any forwarding setup. My router admin password is (has always been) strong. I guess my question now is: Is there anyway to restrict rd access to the local network?
View 9 Replies View RelatedEverytime I leave the computer for a few minutes the screen goes black (I think in suspended state) and when I move the mouse it asks me for the administrator password. How do I make it so it doesnt ask me for it after coming back from suspended state?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHas anyone had or run into a problem with Very large (2.75sq) Icons on the desktop at boot up that you pretty much can not do any thing with anything. It happened just after a update and then it restarted, which was weird cause I can't remember the last time Ubuntu had to restart after an update. Sad thing is I can't recall what the update was but I do know that It asked me for permission to restart Mozilla then the whole thing shut down for a reboot
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to sync several directories between my laptop and desktop both at home and away from home. It seems like the tool to use for this is unison (I use rysnc for backups, but union seemed, better for this sort of thing - let me know if I'm wrong).
I found several posts that appear promising, however I was little confused about the details as I don't have much networking experience up to this point.
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1) Is a reverse ssh connection the way to go? If I only wanted to do this on my home network I could just use ssh right, however in order to get around the router outside my home network the reverse ssh is necessary?
2) How do I handle changing IP address of my laptop?
I am new to the community and have just recently loaded Ubuntu 10.04. I think I made an error when I first launched Evolution, how can I get back into the wizard to add/correct the e-mail password?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIt is really clear that someone spent a whole lot of time figuring out how to show the desktops in an animation when you switch from one to another. Unfortunately, that person did not think about how annoying that might be when one needs to switch back and forth between a couple of desk tops. I am forced to hold my thought for several annoying seconds while this unhelpful animation shows me the desktop path I have taken. Even worse, it also often leaves holes in my windows that remain obscured until I change window content. Sometimes, it is simply too inconvenient or even nearly impossible to refresh the content. So I have to live with this hole in the window. I searched for "switch" in my desktop settings and I've googled for "switch desktop animation", but I'm not thinking of the keyword that the inventor thought of. I don't know how to turn it off.
Brief version: How do I turn off this misfeature?
Were abouts is Desk 2, as in, right click program, move to another work space, Desk 2, so how can i find this desk 2?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedThe author (somewhere on these Ubuntu forums directed........ Ctrl + Alt + F1 which I thought was going to be the "Terminal" but nothing similar. I have about a half dozen different names/passwords for Ubuntu but none will work to log in. How to get out of this text console and back to Ubuntu GUI? And, how to read my lost LogIn name and password for this "Text Console"?
View 2 Replies View Relatedwhen booting up the system it promts for user and pass. After entering username and password followed by enter the system looks like its going to start. But no, it loads a white page for a couple of seconds and then go back to the section where you enter username & password. Why? the user and pass was correct. If i hit ctrl + alt +f1 and use the same username and password i can login with the CLI. But not in the graphical login prompt. How does such a problem gets fixed?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWell here's what I've done in grub.confpassword --md5 BLABLABLA /grub/admin_menu.lstNow that I enter some password, I can go to that menu and run my pvt. OS.But how to get back to original (or say public or default) grub menu?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to add service desk feature with my existing OpenNMS installation. For that I have already installed OTRS and SiT. But I gone through the OpenNMS wiki, and I can't find the OTRS plugins for the OpenNMS. The link provided in that site which is an SF link, also not working.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was using Ubuntu 10.10.I upgraded to 11.04 through update manager.Though other functions are as per 11.04 the desk top has not changed to "Unity" desktop.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhats wrong with this line?Code:sudo -u user /usr/bin/nohup sh /home/user/somescript.sh &This should ask for the password then execute the script at background and get back to menu
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhen I was using AntiX, I liked how I could just type "xlock" in a terminal and it would lock the screen until I came back and typed my password. I saw that there was no "xlock" package, so googling around, I saw it was replaced with xlockmore and xlockmore-gl, neither of which there seems to be a package for in the Squeeze repositories. I tried xscreensaver, but I prefer the simplicity of xlock (and I like that it doesn't leave a daemon runnig when not in use). Is there a way to safely install it, or should I just be looking for an alternative?
View 9 Replies View Relatedhello i am trying to change my password, but when i type in the new password i get this:"The password is longer than 8 characters. On some systems, this can cause problems. You can truncate the password to 8 characters, or leave it as it is."my question is what kind of problem could i get and how can i change so i have to log in every time i start the computer?
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I managed to delete the Volume Applet that appears by default on the task bar. I'm sure it used to be listed in 'Add to Panel' in other version of Ubuntu however I can't see it there in 10.04.
Can someone explain to me how I get it back?
i have noticed that if vista is not the active partition, hybernate does not work. it just goes black and then back to the user icon screen to log back in. another "slight" problem was that i was not able to apply a service pack. after restoring vistas dominance i was able to install the pack. is there any other work arounds for hybernate? even though you might not be interested in cleaning up after microsoft.
View 1 Replies View Related it was possible to back up time machine back ups from a mac in ubuntu.
I use a mac at work and use time machine to back up to an external hard drive which i take home each day. I wish to back up the time machine back ups off the external hard drive each day to my computer at home just to be safe is this possible?
I have managed to open the hard drive and have enabled view hidden files so i can see all the files but i am unable to copy them due to permission errors
I,m using Ubuntu 10.10 with Gimp. Ive got a lot of photos etc and need to back these up. Can I anyone suggest a good backup solution which does not require e to keep copying the same files? IE: Once the files are backed up I only want to back the files used since last back up?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI m Trying to get vsftpd usergroups to work i accidentally moved a file called passwd from /etc/vsftpd/ to /etc/, resulting in my root access is destroyed! how to restore the passwd file so i can keep working, or do i have to re-install the entire box?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm really new to Linux so this will probably sound like a pretty naive question to most users, but how do you change the root password?To install Java, I have to type # su into Terminal,which then asks for the password.What's weird is that when I start typing a password, no characters show up. I don't know if this is supposed to happen or not.I've found a bunch of different sites on the Internet that explain how to change the root password, but none of them seem to work for my specific work station.
I've got Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. In the GRUB boot menu, I can choose to boot normal or in recovery mode (I'm led to believe older versions don't have this option).I've tried typing # sudo passwrd into Terminal, but I already have a root password set up apparently, so I can't change it there.
I thought these were the same password?In-fact, they WERE the same password on the set-up I currently have.But now, weirdly, I can log in fine but I the exact same password is not using in order to perform admin tasks.I've tried a recovery mode, console, and then "password (username)" in order to reset the password.This does reset the password I need to use to log in, but the password still does not work for performing admin tasks
View 4 Replies View Relatedi changed my password and whenever i log in i get a message that ur login keyring password and user password do not match, so how do i change my login keyring password!!
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