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Tagged with login-screen users
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What does the "Not In List" button do in the Ubuntu login screen?
In Ubuntu 21.04, what does the "Not In List" button do when you're trying to log in to your account?
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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 LiveCd enable user login
I am customizing Ubuntu 18.04 and want to boot from a USB drive. As the LiveCD does automatically log in, I Want to enable user login while booting. Can someone pls help me to enable user login for ...
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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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Not able to login to newly created account
I am a new linux user/administrator and I just set up ubuntu 18.04. I am having difficulty creating a viable user/nonadministrator account.
I have done this with the terminal with user (antonk):
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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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Hide user on login screen for kubuntu and lubuntu [19.04]
so I tried to use what has worked for me for years as below.
But trying this on both of these flavors of ubuntu gives an error on giving the gdm user x server access.
Sequence:
Use root:
sudo -i
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Ubuntu Login Loop error
My Ubuntu Login is stuck in a loop.When ever I try to login it comes back to the login screen. I have tried various already options Mainly to open console using CTR+ALT+F1 but I wasn't able to login ...
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Getting rid of an unknown user
My login screen has started listing as an alternate user a word which I have used in the past as a password for certain applications.
However, when I try to delete it I am told it does not exist, and ...
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Admin Account Missing after 'shutdown now' Exit
So, I have been learning PostgreSQL and messing around with creating DB's, users, and switching between both with Konsole. Last night, I shut down the computer with the command 'shutdown now'. After a ...
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How to remove the ugly blue log in?
Due to following some guy's answer, now when I tried to log into the ubuntu, I was given an ugly blue login window:
I thought I can get rid of it by setting automatic login and found some hints on it,...
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How to enable "Other" or "Manual" user login in ubuntu 14.04.1? [duplicate]
I found the other one with the lightdm thing but it doesnt work because its for 12.04!
does anyone know how to enable the manual login like in XUbuntu where you can type in the user and the password?
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How can I change the Keyboard Layout on login screen?
I changed my Keyboard Layout from Swedish to English, but now my password doesn’t work and I can’t login. I need a way to change the keyboard layout at the login screen without having access to the ...
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Is adding a user needs password [duplicate]
In my Ubuntu after login by my user account, I want to create another user I intered bellow commands :
adduser alex_2 -m
I created new user, but when I want to login, Ubuntu needs passwords and I ...
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How can I add Images for each user to Ubuntu 12.04 Logon Screen?
I am not talking about having unique backgrounds on the login screen.
What I am looking for is a icon image besides each user name on the logon screen. This was something that was possible in ubuntu ...
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Session User login problem, when I wake-up my Laptop from suspend
After I upgraded to 13.10, there are many few problem about login when I wake-up from suspend, after I have done the other activity.
Illustration:
When I wake-up from suspend in my laptop and I login ...
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Remove postgresql and daemon user entries in Ubuntu Logon Screen
I installed ubuntu 13.10 and installed some software. Now I see two new users in the logon screen called daemon and postgres. How can this happen? Is there a way to remove these entries from logon ...
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How to not show a user in the Ubuntu login screen? [duplicate]
I have created a user called training using the adduser command and user training appears in the login screen. How to not show any particular user in the login screen? I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with the ...
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Can't login to account on guest or standard
Using Ubuntu 12.04
Up until recently my mother has been using the Guest Session when she logs on; now, the Guest Session will not log in. When I try to log in to it, it bounces me back to the login ...
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Logging in the New Created User Ubuntu12.04 lts
I just created an account with name rashmi and set its password. Then I restarted my system. When I log in to rashmi another screen appears for less than a second and then vanish and again the login ...
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Why my X Server won't start as a regular user and it starts as Guest?
It won't start X server automatically as a regular user but instead shows Logon screen. When I enter my password it flashes for a second and it's back to Logon screen again.
Then I tried to log in as ...
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12.04 Login gone wrong
I seem to have a fault in the login procedure somewhere. When I boooted up I found that if I selected Guest I could use the computer. If I selected my administrator account I was taken straight to ...
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How can I log in to a hidden user?
After some research, i found that you can make specific users hidden by using terminal and changing their ID to below 1000. I've done this for one of my users but now I can't login to that account. My ...
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Login screen - set default user
On login screen i have two options: my default user (let's say User1) and "Other User". When i work as "Other user" and make "Log out", on logon screen the 'active' one is "Other User". I wish that ...
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User Accounts not listed in System Settings User Accounts
I'm running 12.04 on PPC (IMAC G5) - but have a problem with creating/editing user accounts with the System Preferences User Accounts tool. All updates have been downloaded and installed.
When I ...
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Login screen won't accept my password
I recently upgraded to 12.04 from 11.10 and since upgrading have been unable to log in to my user profile. The upgrade went okay and I can login to a guest session fine but whenever I try to login to ...
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How do I hide a user from the login list? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to hide users from the login screen?
I'm setting Ubuntu 10.10 up on my father's desktop and have two user accounts, his and mine (for remote administration purposes). How ...
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How can I change the default user shown in the login screen?
Well, the title is pretty much it.
When I start my system I always get the same user on the login screen (this is the original user created when the system was first installed). How can I change that ...
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