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Trouble logging Active Directory from Windows Server 2022 to an Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS
I actually joined the realm, but the problem is when I try to log in with an Active Directory user, I can't. I added the machine to the active directory via installation and everything is ok.
running ...
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Lagging when I am about to enter my password during user login
After I have booted my laptop, when I am about to login to my user, I cannot enter my password for some time. I keep on typing, but I cannot enter my password. After sometime, I am able to enter my ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 says password is incorrect for all users but one
My Ubuntu 20.04 laptop contains 4 users, 2 normal users and 2 administrators. Only the second administrator can login properly, all of the other users result in "Sorry, that didn't work" ...
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Password Promts for "everything"
I am using ubuntu 20.04.4 and after login I get password prompted for regular things and commands (starting keyboard daemon, updating system repos at startup, mounting devices, systemctl, .. I can't ...
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Is there a default way to run commands on user's logout?
I want to log the logins/logouts of my users.
For the logins I only need to modify /etc/profile and add my command or edit any .profile for an specific user.
But for the logouts I don't know if there ...
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Login as the only user
Repeated question. How to make login possible to a single (root, admin) user only?
(Ubuntu mate 20.04.3 LTS.)
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How to create a user using command line with setting to create password upon first login?
I am currently trying to set up a computer lab for an educational environment. I am hoping to use a combination of python and bash scripts to implement the users on all of the computers, and I was ...
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tty1 and switch users not working in ubuntu 20.04
I very recently switched to ubuntu, and am having a problem with the switch users and the tty1, I've seen in a post here that tty1 is supposed to be the gui login screen and gui desktop on tty2. ...
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/var/log/auth.log in Ubuntu under WSL
Where do I find login information when running Ubuntu under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)? I would normally expect it to be in /var/log/auth.log, but I don't see any login attempts there.
Output ...
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Black screen on login GUI after changing username
I have installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 in a virtual machine.
I only have one user and after some days of use I decided to change the user name.
I changed the user name successfully, but after logging in with ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS starts with a welcome screen on every restart
For some reason on every restart Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS displays a welcome screen and i need to create a new user on every restart. Existing user are not displayed.
I was using 20.04 and I simply ...
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After boot gui login forgets about user
Hello ubuntu community,
I hope you can help me to learn more about ubuntu and get my system starting correct again.
What happend
I used the system with ubuntu 20.04 LTS for two month without any ...
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User not found in the Setting
Today, when I turned my laptop on, Ubuntu(20.04) showed me a "Create a user" page instead of a login page.
So I created a new user. Then there was an upgrade notification and I upgraded the ...
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how to set different login and root password [duplicate]
I want to use different password to logging into desktop from what I can use for sudo -s or sudo -s -u root on terminal/bash. And also I don't want any additional users with different desktops(like ...
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User not showed in login
A few days ago I tried to customize the gnome terminal and in trying to return to the default configuration I touched something too much.
At boot Ubuntu 20.04 forces me to create a new user as if it ...
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Can't unlock certain GUI system settings + unusual authentication notifications on login and power off
I am running a recent upgrade to 20.04LTS. I am not using the Ubuntu on Wayland session as it won't recognise my login; I'm therefore logging into the Ubuntu session.
Since the upgrade there are a ...
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Ubuntu start with create new user page
My operating system is ubuntu20.04.
Recently, when I turn on my laptop the new user creation page pops up.
I have to create a new user before logging to the desired user.
How to solve this problem?
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currently logged in user account disappeared after removing a different user
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on a Thinkpad Extreme Gen 2, with Nvidia Drivers 450 from the default repos (if that changes anything)
Was doing some development in Objective-C on another user (referring to ...
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How do I change my default root-user to non-root user?
When opening my terminal (Ubuntu16.04) I am logged in as root. Everytime I have to type this command 'su - ' to log in as non-root user. So I already made a non-root user but how do I set this non-...
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Ubuntu 20.04 always forces me to create a new user at boot
I have newly installed Ubuntu 20.04, customized GDM3, installed my needed software and everything appeared to be successful. However, when I reboot, Ubuntu asks me to create a new user for some ...
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Encrypt each user's home folder individually with ZFS
Scenario is that I have a pile of computers (with Ubuntu 20.04), each of which can have multiple users. Each user's account has to be encrypted individually.
As ecryptfs is no longer recommended, I ...
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Logged as main user but can't access anything
After ordinary use of Ubuntu 20.04 yesterday I shut it down, and today after logging in as user "biowar", I cannot access any app, for example Nautilus:
This location could not be displayed
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Ubuntu main user missing
As pointed out in another post, I had to setup a new user account after a crash, that helped me to log back in. After reboot I could select "Not listed?" and login to my old account. When I ...
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User not appearing but exists, cannot give it sudo privileges
My user has been edited somehow so it does not appear on login or in my settings. However, I can still login if I use not listed and type it in, and if I try and add a user with the same name this is ...
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User does not appear on login
I just changed by default shell from bash to fish after a clean 20.04 install, and when I restarted afterwards my user does not appear at the login screen or in my settings.
I can still login if I ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 user not listed to login
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and today, after turning on my computer, by default, Ubuntu showed that welcome screen where you create your user and whatever. I thought my OS crashed because it ...
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how to debug failed logins?
I am using Ubuntu Linux and have two users configured for the machine.
I can successfully login for one user, but the other user always fail.
I deleted the .Xauthority file from the user where ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 starts with welcome screen every time, cannot login
This started when I was trying to change my default shell to fish, which didn't work properly (might be of relevance here maybe?). I logged out through the menu on the upper right and couldn't log ...
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How to change keyboard layout for each user?
I am setting up user accounts for family members on my laptop. I use Dvorak (by touch type) but they will all use QWERTY. How can I set each user to have a different keyboard layout?
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users not showing up in the users app
I have 2 accounts, when I run the users app, only 1 of them shows up
I't's been this way for some time now, the second account called jenkins was a system account. It worked fine for my purposes (...
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Create user with access to other users
Our team is 3 people :
anna
ben
carl
They do web development so each site has its own user :
site1 is a user for website #1
site2 is a user for website #2
We want each user to login with their ...
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How to rescue files from a HDD using a bootable USB?
I am new to Ubuntu.
My computer doesn't start and I need to rescue some files from it.
I tried to boot from a live USB and did it successfully. I reached the HDD but the folders are locked (I can see ...
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/var/run/utmp does not record users who log in through GUI and ‘w’ command can not show users that have logged in through GUI
I’ve deleted some files in /var directory by accident and I found the problem that I describe in the title.
How can I solve that problem?
Is there any way to recover /var/run/utmp?
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Reverse usermod nologin Action On Sole User
I accidentally used usermod -s /usr/sbin/nologin username on the only user on Ubuntu. Now, when I open terminal, it says “This account is currently not available” and I can’t type anything in.
How ...
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How do i apply settings for the login screen
I use Ubuntu 18.04.
When i boot up the system and login screen shows up, it loads some settings that i don't like and would like to change them.Namely
keyboard layout
mouse sensitivity
screen ...
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Hide certain users from login screen greeter (Ubuntu 19.10)
Hi I just finished installing Ubuntu 19.10 on my daughter's computer.
I want to hide my own account from the login greeter.
I found a way to hide the list of all accounts but that is not really what I ...
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18.04 keyboard stop working for one user account after login; another works ok
I've got a high school computer lab with 32 Dells running 18.04.
A problem has developed on two computers now, where after logging in with the student account, the keyboard stops working. Even caps ...
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Timeout for password input for user login
is it possible to set a timeout for ubuntu to ask the user for his login password. Let me give you an example. I put my laptop to sleep and after 2.5 seconds I think 'ah f**k, I forgot something'. So ...
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How do you setup remote accounts to a server? [duplicate]
How can I have an Ubuntu client login to an account in Ubuntu server and have all their files on the server? I only want to have Ubuntu installed on the client PC but since it has an SSD it has a very ...
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Can't login, although password is correct [duplicate]
Here what's happening when I try to log in.
I'm entering the right password
It brings me back me to the login screen.
I tried to change password via another user but it didn't help.
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Recovering User After An Upgrade
So I recently did an upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04.5 ( planning to continue to 18.04.1 ) and when I logged in to what I thought was my user I saw that all my files weren't there. At first I thought ...
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How can I change my login name?
I don't mean the first encrypt password, but that login name that appears in logout from user mode, change user, etc. The second password where I wrote my real name.
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New Users not visible at login
I have created a couple of new users via the Users and Groups GUI for Ubuntu 16.04, however they are not available on the log in screen (nor log out/ switch user).
I used the same method on a virtual ...
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My user appears twice in the login screen
When i start my Ubuntu 18.04 system i get prompted to the login screen but my user appears twice in the login screen
the first instance accepts my usual password but the second instance doesnt
what ...
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Can I have one user language in Polish and keep the sudoer's account (mine) in English?
Can I have one user language in Polish and keep English for me when I log in?
If so, how do I go about installing Polish language for Ubuntu Studio?
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why is a "Dynamic User" appearing in my "Users"?
A "Dynamic User" is showing up in my newly installed Ubuntu 18.04. This user doesn't appear in the /etc/passwd nor is there a /home/.
If I log out or power off the machine, when re-booting the "...
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18.04 swich user or log out and log in new user hangs computer sometimes
I just installed 18.04 and created 2 users. Switching between users often causes the computer to freeze/hang. The only escape is the power switch.
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Unity has a broken ui on one user but not another
My main admin account works fine with unity but when I login with my LFS account I made from the LFS tutorials which are a "standard" account type it's broken. When I click and drag on the desktop ...
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Use previous users already present in Linux Home directory
I recently installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 16.04.0 LTS on my server PC. I mounted my earlier /home directory to it. It consisted of multiple user accounts that were previously made.
But after ...
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Can Linux programs run malicous code after installation? even if they're never opened?
I have two accounts on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine, user1 and admin.
The accounts breakdown as follows:
user1 I run untrusted, basically any programs, /home/user1 permissions are -rwxr-x---
admin I ...
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