Questions tagged [login]
the process of logging in: from the login prompt, through user authentication, to session startup
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Unable to login for graphical session on Mint + Not available space on filesystem
I've been trying to start a graphical session with all users on my system but I've been always reverted to the login screen.
After initiating a terminal with (Ctrl+Alt+F1) from there, I've been able ...
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CentOS doesn't go to login screen after kernel update from 3.10 to 5.06 on my HP ML150 server [closed]
Installed CentOS 7.6 on my HP Proliant ML150 Gen9 server which came with kernel version 3.10. Immediately upgrading kernel to latest mainline version 5.0.6 caused the problem which is being not able ...
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How to fix Kali login grey screen bug [duplicate]
I have a Asus Rog Strix GL703GE and i was installing Kali on my second hard drive. When i do the login, a grey screen appears and everything freeze. What can I do to start graphical without bugs and ...
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Abnormal behavior on Debian 9 after crashes
After I tried to install swift on my Debian 9 machine, Suddenly I faced a big problem (I couldn't access Debian GUI) I solved this issue by some terminal command like
sudo apt-get install gdm3 and ...
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How to configure a shutdown at the xth wrong entered password?
Having an encrypted hard drive is all well and good, but chances are that if someone is gonna steal your laptop, it’s probably not going to be turned off. Most likely, it will be stolen in a powered-...
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How to unlock the login for the root?
How to unlock the login for the root?
In Ubuntu 14.xx and previous versions of Ubuntu, it was possible to log in to the graphical session as root. Now i can't do this anymore. How to unlock the root ...
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Trisquel:What to type when I set a blank password? [duplicate]
I recently installed trisquel on my computer. When I decided to use the terminal and sudo I was prompted to use a password despite the fact that I set a blank one.
I want to know what I am supposed ...
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Is it possible to set at or cron job at logon event? [duplicate]
Is it possible to write an at or cron job script that will execute on a particular user's logon?
If so, what will be the method?
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Mint - disk is full (prevents login)
I had 0 bytes free and even when I deleted something the number of free bytes stayed still zero. So I tried to restart it and I can't login now. I tried console Ctrl+Alt+F1, but I don't know login. I ...
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logout/login not enough to update group membership
I just added myself to "docker" group on my workstation.
I dutifully logged out and in again on my desktop environment but I'm still not on the group:
mcon@cinderella:~$ id
uid=1000(mcon) gid=1000(...
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Centos Installation base environment only showing basic functions
I am currently interested in learning how Linux works. I have followed the tutorial How to Install CentOS 7 on VMware Workstation 14 Pro? The problem is, every time I install the only available Base ...
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What does the Unix login program/command do?
I am reading APUE and it keeps refering to the login program, but I still don't know what it is doing in my operating system (Ubuntu).
§8.11:
Normally, the real user ID is set by the login(1) ...
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How can I track script which gives me “command not found” right after the login?
When I login, I have these messages:
-bash: $'\r' : command not found
-bash: $'\r' : command not found
-bash: $'\r' : command not found
It is quite clear that it is caused by Windows-style line ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 - Cannot SSH with root user, login successfully but closed immediately with return code 254?
I could SSH to 1 server with a non-root user. However, I tried to enable root login at /etc/ssh/sshd_config with this content:
# Package generated configuration file
# See the sshd_config(5) manpage ...
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When I connect my Wacom to the PC, Debian gets stuck to Login screen
As title says; also: everything was working fine, I followed all the steps I found in the Linux Wacom Project https://linuxwacom.github.io/ and at the end of the process I could use the tablet with no ...
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Can some or all profile/login scripts be bypassed on local console login?
The situation I'm thinking of is that something in /etc/profile or ~/.profile or ~/.login or similar is causing you to be logged out immediately or some other problem/mischief, and you're at a text-...
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Seeing user two times
Consider I have created a user 'test' during Installation which I use to login to my system. My root user is 'root'. I further open two terminal sessions for each of the users respectively. Now the ...
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Very slow login, logout and su on Centos 6.8
It's been two weeks that ssh login, logout and using su to other users on a CentOS 6.8 server been very slow, it takes around 20 seconds to 45 seconds for the login or logout or su to take effect. All ...
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Linux Mint with AMDGPU, Monitors drop signal after Mint boot animation
I installed Linux Mint MATE 19.1 and installed the AMD MESA 18.x+ drivers as shown in the Wiki (adding ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa and upgrading). Here are my specs/setup:
Make/Model: Dell PowerEdge ...
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How to configure Linux to authenticate users based on Keycloak user database?
I have an existing user database in Keycloak.
I want to build a Linux machine which logs in users according to the user database in Keycloak (username, password).
How can I accomplish this?
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A single unified account for all users on a single machine, while preserving separate credentials
So this is more of a reverse-engineering question.
We have this machine at work, where anyone can login using ssh. ssh johndoe@gateway01. However! Once logged in, the user the person is logged in as ...
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Can a Solaris 11 account prefixed with # be used to login?
I have been given a list of accounts on a Solaris 11 server that contains several accounts which are prefixed with a # character: "#username". (No LDAP is being used, and all accounts are local ...
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Recovering from a 'corrupt' theme installation on Debian
I recently installed a new theme on my Debian Stretch machine, however after rebooting, I am unable to get past the login screen. If I enter the incorrect log in details, the systems tells me that the ...
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Scientific Linux 7x - Too much system hardening!
Some Linux users like my company build Linux servers to use on factory production lines. We write software to load BIOS and FLASH memory and test our products. We constantly need to reboot these ...
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Do display managers like sddm actually set the login_shell option?
I have a script which distinguishes if it is sourced from within a login shell or not. But it happens not to do its job as the login was done through display manager sddm.
#!/bin/bash
# /etc/bash....
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On Kali, by default terminal starts with root privileges, how to stop that? [duplicate]
On other distros when I open terminal, it is usually either ask for password or logs in with normal user priviliges, in Kali it logs on automatically with root.
I want to stop that.
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CentOS 7 “Invalid user __ from xx.xx.xx.xx port xxx” - Not showing the attempted username entered
When taking a look into my /var/log/secure logging file, I'm able to see attempts to log into my CentOS system via SSH, however, the username is blank. I've recreated this myself by entering false ...
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Cannot login with Linux Mint 19 via terminal
I cannot login via terminal (I do not know if this is because of Mint or Ubuntu).
When I enter the username, I want to enter the password, but what it does, it autoenters with an enter it goes like ...
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Login loop Linux Mint 19.1
I am unable to login to my linux desktop since I rebooted earlier today. Did not notice anything strange except firefox crashing a couple of times. It seems like the system is in a login loop. After ...
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TTY Login hangs after username input with constant newline
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After a restart my Ubuntu Server 18.04 installation greets me as usual with the tty1 login prompt. The input of the username works as usual but after hitting enter the password prompt is ...
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login not working from new tty but with su <username> works
I'm installing LDAP auth on CentOs7 (command-line way).
I'm facing a strange behaviour:
[root@client]# su ldapuser01
(run as root) works and let me connect as ldap user (without prompting for a ...
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SSH connection “This account is currently not available”
I tried to connect at a SSH server in 3 different ways, but nothing works:
using putty - after I enter my password the putty window automatically closed, and in the log file there is: "This account ...
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Can't boot into a specific account on GalliumOS, can with root account, from greeter
I was trying to log into my main administrator account, and it seems to accept my username & password and begin to login normally, as the standard (for me) blank purple screen pops up, but then it ...
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xscreensaver - how to log successful logins
I would like to log successful login attempts from screensaver.
Running xscreensaver with xscreensaver -verbose -log ...
does give me something usable:
input finished.
pam_conversation (...) ==&...
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do incorrect usernames get logged?
i was wondering if a GUI login attempt with a non existing username will be written to any log files? (im using mint with cinnamon and Kali with gnome3)
I accidentally put my password in as username ...
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!! versus * in /etc/passwd [duplicate]
My (admittedly dated) understanding of unix is that in /etc/passwd if the second field is 'x' then the identity can login with a passwd that matches a hash found in /etc/shadow.
However, when I list /...
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Kali-linux default password for live session [duplicate]
I tried to install kali through Unetbootin but it failed. After that, I tried to go on live one, but without setting any password. It asked for that as default. I entered root as username but don't ...
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I have issues when I login the shell of Debian 9
When I write my user and password it goes all fine until I push the enter button. The screen goes grey, blinks a few times, again grey, then freezes like that.
So I push the reset buton and when its ...
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Cannot login in to arch linux
I installed arch a day ago and it was fine until yesterday but after I changed some settings in the /etc/pam.d/system-local-login to use fingerprint login and reboot, I can't login in to arch linux. ...
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How to login and Download the file in the same session in R language?
I am trying to do login and download the file with using a package httr and jsonlite in R language. I write the following code :
library(data.table)
library(jsonlite)
library(httr)
library(properties)...
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Can't login as user
Everything works as root. I can startx, and get into iceWM.
I'll be using i3, but that works aswell through lightdm if I login as "other" then write "root".
Loging in in a TTY works aswell, but only ...
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Login script that requires user to re-enter displayed random number string
I currently have a script that runs upon a user logging into a Linux server and at the end it prints
[Terms of use agreement prints here]
read -p "Agree and continue..." -nl -s
However, most users ...
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PAM doesn't block my account after 5 failed logins
I would like to block account after 5 failed password on login screen. I follow this article but it doesn't takes effect. I don't know why. This is the content of my /etc/pam.d/system-auth file :
#%...
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Use Key Based Login on Desktop Linux
I'm using Pop!_OS (essentially ubuntu + tweaks with a gnome environment) and I've recently acquired a Mooltipass hardware password manager.
This tool has the capability to manage SSH keys.
I was ...
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Why calling agetty directly from bash doesn't seem to have any effect?
I try to call /usr/bin/agetty - from bash in a terminal-emulator(both X-based and Kernel-based), then it asked me to input a username, but after input that username, it just "freeze" a little while, ...
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What is the “login session” of a process? [duplicate]
In the manpage of ps
lsession SESSION displays login session identifier of a process.
What does the "login session" of a process mean?
ps has other fields cgname and cgroup for the cgroup ...
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Linux Centos does not boot on login GUI
I would like to boot my Linux Centos 7 on Graphic User Interface login page but it doesn't. I have already installed GNOME DESKTOP.
I did:
systemctl set-default graphical.target
my grub file is ...
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What does `lightdm --session-child 12 19` mean?
What does lightdm --session-child 12 19 mean in the following output?
Why does lightdm fork a process to execute the above command?
I don't find --session-child in lightdm manpage. Thanks.
$ pstree ...
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What is logging in?
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/489913/674
Logging in is a user-space construct; the kernel doesn’t care about that.
There are multiple examples of this; for example, cron jobs can run ...
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How does `sshd` perform logging in activity?
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/489913/674
connecting using SSH counts as logging in.
From How can I run a process as its owner or become its owner without logging in?
connecting with SSH,...
