Questions tagged [login]
the process of logging in: from the login prompt, through user authentication, to session startup
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Login not work for all users - systemd
I have multiuser mode in my linux and when I try login don't work.
How to fix it?
From liveos i read journall and I have error:
Nov 15 12:06:18 localhost.localdomain systemd[1288]: user@0.service: ...
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Could not log into new VM with correct password
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS ubuntu-server tty1
ubuntu-server login: woody
Password: -
that password section keeps not showing anything even though I've tried with the correct password. Since I used OS X, I go ...
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Kali Linux stuck after login screen (dual boot with windows10 & kali linux 2018.4) possible reasons? [duplicate]
After deciding to dual boot my acer aspire laptop which is running windows 10 with kali linux I faced the problem that my login screen in kali linux freezes after loging in.
When I did the dual boot ...
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sudo is accepting everything as password except the correct password! [closed]
On my elementaryOS juno, I'd installed fingerprint-gui and fprint-demo to set fingerprint unlock to my laptop, but unfortunately I couldn't get it to work, so I removed both fprint-demo and ...
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Dropbear: monitor all SSH login attempts
I'm trying to find a way to monitor all SSH login attempts (specifically the failed ones) on my OpenWRT operating system.
I'm using Dropbear as SSH Server and I'm not able to find any implementation ...
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Linux Mint 19 no login screen
I have just created a bootable Linux USB and added three accounts: My Account, My brothers account and a Guest account. every time i boot Linux up it used to log me straight into the "mint" default ...
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How to use fish on remote servers that have it installed without changing login shell?
I regularly ssh on several different servers, some of which don't have fish installed, but many do. I'd like to get fish as shell if available (changing midway is always tedious, and you lose the ...
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Blank login screen
When I boot into Linux, then I should get a login screen where I enter my password. But I actually a black and a blank screen, literally. Because I know this is the screen where we enter the password ...
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su - root failed with error “Cannot execute username: No such file or directory”
I can't login to root on VPS server. But login to usual user is successful. I've tried to login username and after that change to root by commands su - root and su -. These commands fail after ...
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Is it possible to get a login prompt on a remote server, directly after boot?
The usual workflow to connect to a remote machine is as follows:
Log into local machine
Fire up a terminal window
Type "ssh user@r.lan"
Log into remote machine
I want to get rid of the local Log-in, ...
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Configuring Automatic Login for Ubuntu
When booting up into Ubuntu it has a dialog with the default user and an input field for a password.
How do I disable this prompt so the default user is automatically logged in?
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KDE SC 5.10.5 on Kubuntu 17.10 / After logging in, user has only primary group assigned
Some time ago (can't tell exactly when, but it's been one week at least), users logging into KDE on this system stopped being assigned membership to their supplementary groups.
For example, user "...
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I cannot source profile inside .xsession (Debian Buster)
I ditched gnome by ditching gdm in my Debian install and replaced it with xdm and fluxbox. The problem that now occurs is that logging in to fluxbox doesn't work. I type my username and password, ...
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How to modify /etc/pam.d/ in Mac to require password AND touch id at the same time in order to login account?
I would like to make a two-factor authentication to login my account that requires my password and a second authentication method like pam_tid.so or a FIDO U2F key. The logical expression would be:
(...
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Can't log in after fresh install of Linux Mint
I installed Windows 10 Pro on my old ThinkPad R60 and shrank the NTFS partition to 50% to make space for a dual boot Linux installation. Then I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition 3, creating separate ...
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How to automatically run “ssh-agent bash” and “ssh-add” when log in? [duplicate]
I have a scenario where, whenever a user logs into a CENTOS machine via SSH, I need to have the following commands run:
ssh-agent bash
ssh-add
[This other thread explains why I am using those ...
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Re-login command? [closed]
There is already rebooting, but sometimes, I would just like to automatically relogin to prepare quickly for carrying a laptop without needing to wait the logout to finish in order to re-login ...
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Debian 9 Stretch default login background location
I want to personalize my login a bit, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to change this image.
I tried changing the .svg's filepaths at /usr/share/wallpapers/DebianThisOrThat by editing ...
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Fedora 28: Generate kerberos ticket on login
I'm trying to generate kerberos ticket when I login on my computer(Fedora 28). I want to achieve it using PAM. my /etc/pam.d/system-auth looks like this:
auth required ...
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Are there types of Unix shells? [closed]
I found there are shells like nologin, false, and true. What else are there?
I don't know what is the correct keyword to be used to list the shells. Whenever I search using the keywords linux shell ...
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how can I automate the process of login to my remote host via jump host
I am using a Windows machine and I connect to my remote host via a jump host using a SSH software (I use mobaxterm for now). Now my login process is like this:
Load the jump host session I have saved ...
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Disable ssh password authentication programmaticaly
I am provisioning a machine using packer.
The tool offers shell provisioning functionality so I am able to run whatever shell commands I want.
I would like to disable ssh password login.
Is there a ...
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Is this output from “who -a” normal?
This does not look normal to me:
who -a
system boot 2018-09-04 11:59
LOGIN tty1 2018-09-04 11:59 685 id=tty1
run-level 5 2018-09-04 11:59
user + pts/...
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Creating users own “root” [closed]
So my goal on this is to give each user their own "root" by basically making a loop drive with a copy of core files. I know there is stuff like jail shell, and all that fun stuff that makes it a bit ...
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Can't log in to other users on a debian system
I can't log in to KDE, as other users to the GUI on my Debian systems only the user created at install.
I can log on in the command line:
su - user
into the users login but only in the shell.
I ...
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SSH without the login ID or password [duplicate]
My workstation is running Linux Centos7 is part of a local network. Every computer in this local network is running Linux Centos7 as well (the same build).
Every time I ssh into a server, I need to ...
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Explanation for the meaning of content of the /var/run/utmp file
I would like to understand the content of the following file system /var/run/utmp. When I use the command od to open it I see the following:
[john@iceman ~]$ od -c /var/run/utmp
0000000 002 \0 \0 ...
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tty1 missing login prompt
I have a clean Debian Stretch installation. It used to be the case that after booting I would end up on tty1 with a login prompt, and after logging X is started. I wanted to automate the logging in (...
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XFCE/LightDM: Tearing-Fix vs. No Desktop After Logging in
I have Manjaro/XFCE/LightDM and a GeForce GT 710 and I followed this guide to get rid of tearing. I added those three lines to my X-configuration. After I log in in the greeter the screen only shows ...
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Can I activate password feedback on a tty?
A few weeks ago, I decided to clean up my keyboard and ended up messing up a few keys as I was snapping them back onto the board. As a result, some characters have become annoyingly difficult to enter....
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Stuck in a login-loop in lightdm and gdm, but not with xfce and other systems
The interesting part is I found that I was able to login with xfce but not with either lightdm or gdm. (I am using Ubuntu 16.04)
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Temporarily restrict logins for a user to a single IP
Background
I have a bunch of Raspberry PI 3 devices running Linux, which are shared among multiple engineers. For the sake of simplicity, each Linux box has the same default username/password (i.e. ...
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linux/xfce4: How to get rid of “choose session name”?
I've been running xcfe4 for a long time with no problems under linux.
Today I was making some changes to grub and doing some reboots to test it. Now, every time I enter my login password via the ...
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How to automate a source command
I have to run a command every morning after I log on to the server to enable certain company specific functionalities.
The command looks like this:
source /data/dev/int/default/somethingsomething.env
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How to get users group and their last login and password status in gnu/linux or Unix
How can I get details in, Linux using bash script, of users group, their last login and password status?
format
username groups last-login password_status
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How to disable “Last failed login” message on Centos?
How can I disable the message below when a specific user logs into a Centos machine from console?
Last failed login: Sun Jun 30 22:32:35 EST 2018 from 192.168.142.71 on ssh:notty
There were 3 failed ...
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Why is root always logged in from ttyS0 (even after system reboot)? [closed]
I am continuously seeing root in the output of the w command on a virtual machine hosted on the cloud. I have restarted the machine several times and even tried sending CtrlAltDel from the OpenNebula ...
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How to tell what method was used to log in (Password vs. Keyfile) from the bashrc
Is there a way how you can check what auth method the user which just logged in to an account were using?
I like to print out a warning after login if someone is using a password instead of a keyfile....
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Lightdm: Starting the Desktop Environment Depending on Which User Logged In
I'd like to set up a user account (lets call it userA) that, on login, instead of starting the desktop environment (Budgie), it goes to a TTY. Having the inverse behavior (starting at the TTY first ...
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Unable to login into Kupiki captive portal using the given username and password(Raspberry Pi 3 B+) [closed]
I tried to create a captive portal for my Raspberry Pi's Wifi hotspot using Kupiki-Hotspot-Script which is given in this link
Kupiki-Hotspot-Script
However I am unable to login using the given ...
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Xwayland crashes frequently
My system is running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I am facing this bug every time I turn on my pc and when my PC wakes up after sleep. Unfortunately, I found no solution when I searched on Launchpad and Bugzilla....
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Can not restrict domain users access to Ubuntu SFTP server
I have an Ubuntu SFTP server that has joined an AD domain using winbind and sssd. I'd like to restrict user access (Ideally to allow only a domain group to access but for now to only one user).
I ...
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Is it possible to log into all 6 terminal sessions at once?
If I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to the 1st terminal session, I have to give my username and password to log in. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F2, I have to repeat this process. Same for F3, F4, F5, and F6.
Is ...
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Confused between “echo command | ssh server” and “ssh server command”
During the course of my learning about the non-interactive login shell, I have come across 2 ways to remotely execute the commands via SSH. For me, they both look to be the same. But unfortunately, ...
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which software runs the login widget under Xfce4
I'm running Debian Buster with Xfce4 on two different systems, each with a long history going back 3 or 5 Debian releases. After booting into Linux, they show completely different screens with ...
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Last (failed) logins - or - why elevated permissions for btmp
Why do I need to have elevated permissions to access the last failed logins (/var/log/btmp) but not for the last successfull logins (/var/log/wtmp). (At least per default on debian/ubuntu linux - my ...
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Can't login into Fedora 11?
I am using Fedora 11 with VMware Workstation for Unix.
I was performing grep command but as it doesn't display highlighted output so i found some commands and tried running them. Code is as below.
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sudo and su commands do not work, after executing sudo chsh -s /bin/zsh
So, I've been trying to install zsh. It didn't work properly, after terminal restart, so I decided to change the shell again by typing chsh -s /bin/zsh, once again, but accidentally preceded that with ...
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Does SSH ProxyJump require local shell access?
i have an account that can ssh to localhost alright:
$ ssh root@localhost
# logout
Connection to localhost closed.
it does not work with the JumpProxy feature of ssh however:
$ ssh -J root@...
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Run script on non-interactive SSH session (SFTP)?
I have a Linux development server in Digital Ocean based on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04. I use this mostly for development.
I created a script on /etc/profile.d/ to trigger an SMS message (based on Node.js ...
