Questions tagged [multiple-users]
Multiple devices attached to one machine which operate independently of each other.
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How to delete a user & its home folder safely?
I just created a new user & its home folder & need to delete it now & also I cant find my old user's Downloads,Documents,Pictures,etc folder in /home/olduser & also .Xauthority file. ...
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How can I set up Samba shares to only be accessed by certain users?
I have a RAID10 array mounted on Ubuntu Server 12.04. I have created a few folders within the mount point and want the following functionality.
There will be 4 users, 3 of them are windows users: '...
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Run apt-get without sudo
This might be a very naive question, but I wanted to know how I could give multiple users access to a single computer without making them root users. How would I give them limitted sudo access such ...
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Single server, multiple users, each with his own virtual machine
Our school system has a low budget to update our computers, so I've thought maybe I could buy only one server (a powerful one) and hookup 30 students to one server.
On the server should be 30 Ubuntu ...
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How to change the default parent directory for a new users home folder?
I'm mostly asking this as it's apart of an assignment that asks me to.
"configure the default settings of linux for when you create a new user, their home directories are in /project/users directory ...
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Multiple users use linux pc at the same time
I have a powerful linux PC. Is it possible that more than one user use that PC at the same time while I will use it physically and others will use it remotely (each person will have different user and ...
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How to share byobu with multiple users?
The best way to learn and troubleshoot is to pair up with someone else on the internet via text based screensharing. Love the ergonomics of byobu for a single user at a single time. However when I ...
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Synchronise user accounts over multiple systems
In my office I have 10 computers and all of them run Ubuntu. I have 20 employees each with their own login. Is it possible to set things up so that every employee can log in on any of the computers ...
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Backup all home folders on usb disk and accessibility
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and have multiple family members working on it, each with their own home folder.
I have an USB disk that I want to use to backup all my home folders.
When my disk auto ...
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With two simultaneous users, how much memory is consumed?
Basically, it's my personal system (running 10.10) where I often switch from myself to my other myself (one login is for personal purposes, and the other one is the working login). So I come to ...
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Creating startup program for all users 12.04 - only working for 1 user
In ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop, I'm trying to have chromium start up automatically for all users upon login.
I did the following:
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop ~/.config/...
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Give the same rights to two users
Let's say I have 2 users :
user1 and user2
I would like to give user1 the same permissions as user2 but I don't want user2 having the same permission as user 1.
Sorry for my english.
Thank you
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Ubuntu 20.04 Lock screen spawns multiple logins
I have recently upgraded to 20.04 from 19.10. At the end of the work day I typically Lock my screen and go home for the evening. When I come in the next day I am able to enter my password but the ...
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Multiple User Account bit-torrent client
So I recently setup Ubuntu 12.04, and currently looking for a bit-torrent client where I can create multiple user accounts.
The plan is to have more than 1 user accounts, and each user can monitor ...
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How can I back up files from multiple accounts?
How do I use Ubuntu One to backup files belonging to three different user accounts on my laptop - mine, my wife's and our business files, each of which has its own login account and therefore own ...
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Root-like directories
Forgive me if I understand the Linux file system wrong here.
Can I add different root-like directories for users?
Example; I want to sudo apt install ncar-ncl in a user named climate, so when I ...
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NTFS data partition can't be accessed by another user unless unmounted in my current user session before logging out
I am on ubuntu 14.04, wanted to create another account, beside my admin one, for my family members to use so as not to interrupt my work. The problem is I can't grant the other account access to the ...
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Merging two users?
Is there a way to merge two users, and combine all the documents? I have two users, and the permissions are getting screwy, as I guess sometimes I action items with different accounts somehow.
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How to change users home directory?
I want to create new user or change one of the current users home directory from /home/user2 to /media/user1/secondary.
I already tried this solution here "How to change the default parent directory ...
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Multiple users, single laptop, private and shared files
I am setting up a Linux laptop for multiple users, Emily and myself, with the following requirements and constraints:
Emily and I each have our own files that we need to keep private from one another ...
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Executing command line with other user
I'm struggling with a problem, i'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, i have a command line "wvdial brt" wich i need to execute with every boot from my computer, i have 2 users in my computer and i have to ...
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how to run an application from a different user than the user that installed the application
I have 2 user accounts, user_1 and user_2. I installed intellij under user_1 before creating the user_2 account. After I created user_2 and logged in as user_2, I cannot see the intellij application ...
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Disable editing full name user
I have some Ubuntu 14.04 desktops in a school environment with a user account named "Student" for student purposes. Some students replace the username's full name with random stuff, which is possible. ...
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How to get audio when starting a GUI program as another user on Kubuntu 22.10 (PipeWire)?
I currently use a command like this to start Firefox as a different user:
# using fake "get-user2-password" command abstraction here for simplicity
xhost "+SI:localuser:user2" &...
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Unable to log in as second user
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. Everything works fine as a single user. If I try and log in as another user without logging out the first one, the login prompt just keeps reappearing with no error message. I've ...
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Can't login to multiple users Ubunutu 22.04
We recently updated our Ubuntu systems to 22.04.1 at work. These machines are used to run code by multiple users at a time. Since the update, one of the machines no longer allows multiple users to be ...
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Can't get VNC to work for multi-user Ubuntu 16 & 18 desktops (is there a better remote solution?)
My engineering team has four special shared computers running a mix of Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 and 18.04 that are in a lab that's a 5-minute walk from our cubes. We need remote desktop access for these ...
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How to create multiple user logins for each ubuntu system [duplicate]
I have 25 systems of ubuntu and I want to create 60 login id and password for students. And any students can use any system to use system using his/her credentials.
How can I achieve this?
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How do I update all computers in my home from my computer on a routine schedule?
My wife, daughters, and I have four computers using Ubuntu in our home, two on 16.04, two on 16.10, all wired to the same router. Is there an easy way to keep them all current on Ubuntu updates/...
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Three users working simultaneously on Ubuntu DESKTOP 16.04 LTS through remote connection?
I want to install Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 LTS in my computer, it has 64 GB RAM, Xenon Processor.
I want to install other softwares with GUI such as, MATLAB, R Studio etc.
If I install, Ubuntu Desktop ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS compass run from another user
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 VM and 3 users (root, prod, git)
prod$ groups
prod
git$ groups
git prod
I have installed ruby on the VM for every user and ran source /home/prod/.rvm/scripts/rvm so I could ...
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How to make transmission work for all users
I tried opening a magnet link from a different (standard) user I created and it didn't work. It asked me to choose a program to open it with. There was no list of programs to choose from.
I also ...
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Xserver shows just the icons on the second screen
i would like to have two different Xserver sessions, because i want to use the same machine from two differet computer by VNC. I mean we are two different person that need to work in the same server, ...
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Transmission download doesn't work when on other user
Transmission doesn't work when logged in as a normal user. Same magnet link, from the same website downloads when I use the computer as administrator, and doesn't work when I use it from a different ...
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INSTALL MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF SOFTWARE FOR DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS
Good Morning,
I am wondering if there is a possibility in Ubuntu to have different users with different softwares versions.
The problem is, even if I am able to install the different versions in the ...
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Auto mount, and change mount points on login
Usually I have lots of files and applications opened just for one project, and I am working on more projects simultaneously, and if I want to switch from one project to another, than I have to close ...
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Partitioning for Windows 10 + Ubuntu + any distro
I'm reading a lot these days in order to make a clean a safe partitioning of my single drive. I have Windows 10 installed already on a 60Gb partition. Now I'd like to use the rest of the space for ...
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Problem in Chromium browser logging
I'm running Xubuntu 12.04. It originally was Lubuntu 12.04, then I installed xubuntu-desktop. I'm still using Chromium as my browser because it's running on a Netbook.
Everything works really well ...
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How can I have the user switcher default to being onscreen the Ubuntu 22.04LTS lock screen?
I've just installed the default install of Ubuntu 22.04LTS Desktop edition after a hiatus of using Ubuntu for a few years.
It is installed on an office computer and there are 2 very regular users that ...
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How to configure two or more network interfaces to work simultaneously on different users I log into linux
I have 2 nics on my pc and I need to configure them to work simultaneously on each user I log in, one nic per user, (knowing that you can change the user and the programs of one keep running even if ...
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Switching between users in XFCE / LightDM without locking session
When I was using KDE with KDM it was very simple to switch users. After I logged in multiple sessions I could easily switch by pressing ctrl+alt+f7 and ctrl+alt+f8 and so on. It was seamless because:
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Ubuntu 20.10 Lost all files with usermod when added user 1001 to group 1002 accidentally
I was adding a new user {rasa} to my Ubuntu studio 20.10. I was adding rasa uid:1002 gid:1002 groups=rasa (1002)
To the audio group for privileges to change cpu to performance and set jack settings. ...
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Why my messages in /etc/motd are not showing?
My welcome message is not showing, how do I check if it is enabled or disabled
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How to ask a user to enter a welcome message? Then, how to do I print this custom message to other users?
I should execute necessary bash commands to print this custom message automatically to other users.
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How can I give access to a single wordpress folder to some 3rd person in Ubuntu?
The owner and group of 'www/website1' is root:www-data and I can tinker with its contents or configuration as root or sudo user.
But now, I want to create another website named website2 (under 'www' ...
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How to create a shortcut for all users?
Ingles
Dear,
Good morning, we want to implement in the user profiles already generated a shortcut on the desktop where an OpenVPN terminal is being run with the following command:
openvpn --config ...
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How to correctly partiton this server? [closed]
I am setting up my first home media server and am struggling to identify if I have this correct.
I have two hard drives: one SSD at 250GB, one HDD at 1TB. I also need to have two unique users and a ...
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Backing up system in a way that preserves user accounts
I'll be backing up a deep learning rig for work that has an ancient Ubuntu install on it so I can upgrade it to current, but I need a way to do it that can preserve user accounts in addition to their ...
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UBUNTU GO DOWN -Adding users in bulk - with UID, group, name etc
Lets say i have a file called users.txt with the following user info:
user1:6001:grp1:This is user1:/home/user1:/bin/bash
user2:6002:grp2:This is user2:/home/user2:/bin/dash
user3:6003:grp3:This is ...
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16.04 - attempting to take ownership of home directory of other user via shared group privileges
As the title says, I'm attempting to make it so my primary account on my ubuntu machine has rwx privileges over the home directory of another account. I made a group for both accounts to share and ...
