Questions tagged [login]
Questions related to logging into a user session or shell, for example at the graphical login screen that normally appears at the end of the boot process
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How do I change a keyring password that no longer matches?
I have a system to learn on and I am new to Linux. I deleted the shared directory thinking the login keyring was there. Then I updated, listed and deleted the ftpmaster@ubuntu, thinking that was the ...
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Unable to login on my machine with right password
Even though I entered the right password to my machine I'm unable to
login.
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I start my machine and for the first time I'm able to login with my password.
Now I lock my machine or I suspend ...
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What is the correct way to modify /etc/pam.d/common-auth?
By default /etc/pam.d/common-auth looks like this
$ cat /etc/pam.d/common-auth
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# /etc/pam.d/common-auth - authentication settings common to all services
#
# This file is included from other ...
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X server on Kubuntu 18.04 crashes if NIS/NFS user is logged in
I updated a machine to Kubuntu 18.04 by a complete reinstall. We still have user management using NFS/NIS. Packages are installed, users can log in. I have one local user dhlocal (userid: 1000) with ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 does not login with Xorg
The login on my Ubuntu 20.04 suddenly stopped working. After entering the password, it get stuck at a purple screen with the mouse pointer. This is not a fresh install and it was working ok until past ...
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Unlock keyring with fingerprint - Ubuntu 18.10
Ubuntu 18.10 offers the option to login with fingerprint. However, the login does not unlock the gnome keyring, and therefore after a login via fingerprint I have to type the password on the keyboard.
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Ubuntu 16.10 Mouse cursor stays in upper left corner
After crashing my Ubuntu 16.04 with installing nvidia drivers I installed Ubuntu 16.10
However my cursor is not moving anymore. It stays in the upper left corner. It is moving invisible (detected ...
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Can't login to Samba share with any user other than my own user
I've followed the usual steps for adding a new user to Samba:
create new Linux user with useradd [user]
set its password with passwd [user]
set its Samba password with smbpasswd -a [user]
But when I ...
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How to automatically switch keyboard layout to English on screen lock?
I'd like my Ubuntu to automatically switch my keyboard layout to English each time I lock the screen, so that I wouldn't have to do it manually each time to enter my password. How do I do that?
Also,...
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Ubuntu 16.04 blue screen with cursor instead of login page
I was hibernating my laptop as usual from the terminal, but the OS hung and I forced a shutdown by holding down the power button. Now when I turn on my laptop and it loads into a blue screen with a ...
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Unable to change password after expiry
When setting up a new Ubuntu 14 PC for a Standard User using a local System Admin account, I’ve used the following command in order to make their password expire after 30 days:
sudo chage –M 30 [...
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signature not found in user keyring, perhaps try the interactive 'ecryptfs-mount-private'
My Ubuntu 13.04 froze while working with the encrypted user account USER1 . I rebooted and since then I cant login to the user account USER1 even with correct password.
I login in to user account ...
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Xubuntu: How can I avoid the double-password entry (lightdm then xscreensaver) on user switching?
I'm running Xubuntu raring with lightdm and xscreensaver. Both users on the system have xscreensaver set to lock the screen after n minutes. However, when I click "switch user" (or do gdmflexiserver --...
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Wireless not connecting automatically
My wireless is working fine, but when I login, it does not connect automatically, I have to select it from the list each and every time to use it. Even though the connect automatically option is ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 "Oh No! Something has gone wrong and the system can't recover" error on login
I've been using Ubuntu 20.04 for several days and then at one point when I tried to login I was met with a "Oh No! Something has gone wrong and the system can't recover. Please log out and try ...
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Not able to login into newly created user account
I created a new user account from System Settings > User Accounts.
I can log in to new user account from the terminal but I can't log in to user account from GUI.
When I try to log in to the newly ...
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How to use Fingerprint for login in Ubuntu 22.04?
I am currently using ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish and I have the following fingerprint reader in my laptop
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 27c6:5301 Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd. Fingerprint Reader
I ...
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How can I view the stdout / stderr from the bash login shell?
I'm trying to debug a strange issue with my ~/.bash_profile, and I'd like to be able to see if there are any errors / etc printed when it's run. Is there some log or such somewhere that contains the ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 GDM increments pam_tally without password input
I have an Ubuntu 20.04 machine with slightly modified common-auth and common-password files to lock the user out for 10 minutes if an incorrect password is tried 10 times. This works fine in the ...
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System-wide x11vnc for GDM on 20.04
I'm trying to setup system-wide x11vnc so even if no users are logged in, I can remotely connect and start a Gnome session. I followed this tutorial on the Arch Linux wiki as it seemed to mirror ...
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Temporarily disable startup apps on login
How temporarily disable startup applications per a particular session at login in Ubuntu/Gnome?
Looking for the feature similar to Windows login when Shift key pressed until desktop starts.
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Ubuntu 19.10 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'
First I did
debian@osboxes:~/Desktop$ mysql -u root -p
Command 'mysql' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install mysql-client-core-8.0 # version 8.0.18-0ubuntu0.19.10.1, or
sudo ...
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On Ubuntu 19.10's guest virtual machine, the login screen does no longer show up after installing VirtualBox Guest Additions, on host Arch Linux
Specs
Guest: Ubuntu 19.10;
Host: Arch Linux;
VirtualBox 6.0.14;
On host Arch Linux, I have virtualbox-host-modules-arch installed.
| DE | KDE Plasma 5.17.0 |
| CPU | AMD ...
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Where does the System Information information come from on login by SSH?
When I connect to an Ubuntu 18.4 server with ssh I get the following information:
Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-46-generic x86_64)
* Documentation:
* Management:
* ...
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How to make login screen display on second Monitor
I need to change login screen to be shown on second Monitor
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xrdp showing "blue" screen on login, related topics haven't helped so far
I'm trying to remotely access my ubuntu virtual machine.
I have xrdp and the mate environment installed.
This is my .xsession file in my home directory:
mate-session
this is my /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh
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Automatically logged out as soon as I log in
Ubuntu 16.04 logs me out automatically after I log in. This thing started after I tried to extract Matlab to a folder in my home directory which in turn got extracted to the home directory. Please can ...
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Can I unlock a brand new user to SSH in without setting password?
I'm following these steps when setting up the user:
$ sudo useradd periscope -m -s /bin/false
$ sudo su -s /bin/bash periscope
$ mkdir ~/.ssh
$ # public key gets manually input here
$ cat - >> ~...
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Password pin over letters but have both options
Is there a way to change my password to a pin like windows 10/8.1, if there is how can I do it? I'd rather do that than telling everyone to turn away or wait until they're gone just to type in my ...
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Normal wallpaper not appearing; only getting greeter ("welcome") wallpaper
Having made no changes to my system, I booted/logged-in today to an odd behaviour: the wallpaper I see at login persists into the session. I have a wide image I use to span two monitors, but the "...
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Why does Xfce sometimes not properly load the theme (Appearance) on login?
Sometimes when I log in, Xfce (4.10, on Xubuntu-14.04) doesn't look right at all – the colour theme is an odd mixture of the correct settings (Xfce-darkness, in my case) and what's presumably ...
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unlock kwallet at login
before plasma 5 I had my kwallet unlocked at login and it worked well (same password for kwallet as for my session).
Now, with plasma 5, it does not work anymore, I think I'm not far from working ...
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How can I add a custom python indicator to the unity-greeter login screen?
I've installed a custom indicator called PRIME Indicator and it shows up in the top panel (next to date time etc) after I login.
I would like to show the indicator before login on the unity-greeter ...
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Sudden black screen after login Xubuntu 13.10
Everything worked fine (except for the audio widget), and suddenly, i boot and after i set my login credentials in the session manager, the screen goes black. How is one supposed to fix it? I find ...
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Long passphrase for login and short password for screensaver
The situation is that: For the encrypted home directory, any passphrase less than 10 characters is useless at all. If someone physically get the harddisk, the data and the other sensitive password ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 puts login on secondary monitor. How can I change this to my primary, permanently
If I log out, when I go to log back in I'm faced with a black screen because the login is on my secondary screen, my television, even when I'm not using that input. I assume this is a bug or I've ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 takes 2.5 minutes to login (not BOOT)
I updated from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and login went up from almost instantly in Ubuntu 20 to 2.5 minutes in Ubuntu 22!!!
Booting takes longer as well (appr. 50 secs.) Normally all start-up text races ...
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Cannot login second user after "switch user", but can if using Ctrl+Alt+F1
For at least a year or so I have had problems with the "switch user" function on Ubuntu. If I log in (whether as "user1" or "user2") and click "switch user" I ...
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ubuntu keeps loging me out randomly
I have been having this problem recently:
Ubuntu keeps loging me out randomly even when I am actively moving the mouse and pressing
keys.
The screen goes blank and there is this cursor thing at the ...
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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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Unable to login to remote computer after restart via teamviewer
I'm accessing my lab PC from my laptop from home. I'm using either TeamViewer or Anydesk to access the remote computer. But since last few days, after a restart of remote computer, I'm not able to ...
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Black screen after login ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 20.04
I pressed ctrl-alt-f10 twice yesterday and the screen went black. I didn't know what to do so I just restarted the computer. Now every time I login the screen just goes black. I looked ...
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Disable the Ubuntu 18.04 Welcome Screen with Custom ISO
How do I disable the Gnome welcome screen on first login?
I'm building a custom ISO for Ubuntu Server 18.04.3 LTS and then adding the ubuntu-desktop package (these builds are for developers who want ...
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19.04 gnome session login after blank screen - is it impossible without mouse?
Since 19.04, there seems to be a problem logging into to a gnome session using the keyboard only, after returning from a blank screen. None of the fields will have focus.
What I want: using the ...
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How do I get back to normal log in after hibernating in Ubuntu 18.04?
After using the command sudo systemctl hibernate to hibernate my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04, the login screen changes design and some applications I installed went missing.
I restarted the computer ...
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Automatically suspend 18.04.1 at idle login screen
This PC is often left in a logged out state at the login screen. I have set power options to automatically suspend on idle, and these do work if a user is logged in.
They do not work if the computer ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 login loop on one user
I just recently upgraded to 18.04, leading to one of my user being stuck in a login loop despite correct password. Meanwhile my other user logs in just fine. Any help to remedy this issue would be ...
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18.04. Can only sign-in via wayland which appears not to support Nvidia GPU needed for extra Displaylink monitor
NOTE! I am principally a 'user' with some technical knowledge rather than someone who uses the CLI most of the time.
I upgraded from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS as I read that 18.04 fully supported ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.1 Lagging mouse and login issues
I recently wanted to try out Ubuntu again as I havent used it since 14.04 and have always had fun using it.
I installed it on my laptop which is running an Intel CPU, nVidia graphics and 16GB of RAM.
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Running login script in Unity for 16.04
I have a Ubuntu 16.04 client computer that is connected to LDAP (FreeIPA). It takes its users from IPA LDAP. Accordingly, we have a mkhomedir directive in /etc/pam.d/common-session file that creates ...
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