Questions tagged [multiuser]
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Turn on keyboard backlight from multi-user.target
Is there a way to turn on the keyboard backlight from the multi-user.target environment? As X11 is not loaded, the command xset led on does not work and gives xset: unable to open display ""....
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Firefox, electron video streaming runs out of buffer when working on a different TTY
I have a dual-user setup having previously split work and personal users on the same computer.
I've already set up sound in a way that both users can play audio via the personal user's wireplumber ...
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How to run a graphical application as another user?
Let's an user A (userA) wants to run in his graphical session a graphical application as user B (userB). How is it done it on a modern GNU/Linux system?
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Categorizing Debian Linux VPS
I like to Categorize or Divide one Debian VPS for different Tasks and Testing.
For Example two Apache Web Servers with no any connection between both. Something like installing apache2 web server only ...
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systemd resource control -- all users/root
I'm using Debian Bullseye with systemd 247. I have more than a hundred of users and I would like to enforce some limits using cgroups. I use set-property, which works as expected, for example for the ...
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How Does Unix Interpret $? [closed]
[orca@orcacomputers public_html]$ adduser Jé$$è+rèè
adduser: invalid user name 'Jé28956è+rèè'
I am unable to use $ when adding users in CentOS7. Karen goes "WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT!?&...
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PulseAudio ignoring seat assignment when plugging in USB audio device
I'm trying to create a multiseat setup for two seats, with a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and USB soundcard for each seat. With my primary user logged in, I created a second seat with its own monitor, ...
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How do I keep track of when each user is actively using the GUI on Ubuntu?
I have a different user for each of my own work areas on my system. This is to keep bookmarks, files and other defaults separate.
Several "users" are generally logged in at once and I just ...
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mount.cifs not supporting 'multiuser'?
I was going to use the "multiuser" option for mount.cifs, but /var/log/messages reports:
kernel:CIFS: unknown mount option multiuser
Kernel is 2.6.18-433
mount.cifs is 1.12RH
I can't find ...
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How to run script when switching to specific (already logged in) user
There's plenty of info out there on how to run a script at login (add it to .xprofile etc.), but I'm looking for a solution that will run a script/command not just at login but also every time a ...
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Applications suspended when switching user?
I've using 2 user and switch them between works using this command:
dm-tool switch-to-user workuser1
and using Ctrl+Alt+F7 /F8 to switch users after logged+ in.
But when I switch user, some ...
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USER shown in `ps aux` but not found /etc/passwd
ps aux output (only line of interest shown)
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
472 24070 0.0 0.7 1636608 59416 ? Ssl May09 10:53 grafana-server --....
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Setting up a git server with ssh access
I want to set up a server that hosts git repositories over ssh and https with client certificates. I don't want any snazzy GUI or anything like that (i.e. not Bitbucket, GitLab, etc) I want a bare ...
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Is there a GUI to edit/add users and groups
Is there a graphical tool that shows (edits) all users and groups on the system, so that one can avoid editing /etc/passwd and /etc/group directly?
GNOME Settings (gnome-control-center) Users view ...
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User environment separation clarification
I need to have multiple environment on my laptop and I want to have them separated in the way that one user action can not break another user environment and so that the users can use different ...
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runlevel + what is runlevel 5 3 in redhat linux
we know that runlevl of multi user mode is
N 5
but on our redhat 7.2 we get the following
runlevel
5 3
what is the meaning of this run-level ?
how to change this machine to multi user mode ( ...
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Rootfs permissions design
I wonder how design permissions in root file system should look for embedded device, with busybox onboard (buildroot environment). Several ordinary users may login to the system using ssh.
My ...
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Debian 9.9: Can I set up a multi-lingual, multi-user system with locale?
In Debian I have set up multiple users. The OS was installed in English.
Next I ran
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locale and selected multiple other languages (such as German, Spanish, and French) and ...
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How to restrict OpenVPN client's connection to single system user?
I have a multi-user setup (Ubuntu) (simultaneously logged in users on different TTYs).
When I connect to NordVPN from one account using nordvpn connect, all users are now connected to the internet ...
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How secure is switching TTY sessions vs GNOME "Switch User"?
On my personal laptop I'm using Fedora 29 and have two user accounts for myself; let's call them "personal_admin" and "personal_user". My personal_admin account is strictly for administrative tasks (...
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Sound on multi-seat system? [closed]
I have set up a multi seat system, distribution of input devices and displays is working.
Now I want to assign Audio devices to the users.
Audio is supposed to be played over HDMI, so the displays ...
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Is there a recommended way to access files owned by a non-user UID?
Suppose a multiboot computer on which two GNU/Linux distributions are installed, each with its own user(s). Say those users don't share the same UID over the two systems.
Now one needs to access the ...
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How does Linux identify users?
I mean, if two users have the same name, how does the system know that they're actually different users when it enforces file permissions?
This doubt came to my mind while I was considering to rename ...
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Where are you supposed to put user-specific programs? [duplicate]
Say I'm a non-admin user who wants to put an executable somewhere in his path so that he can run it like a regular program.
What is the "proper" accepted location for that path? is it ~/bin? ~/.local/...
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Giving access to user-installed python distribution to another linux user
(I'm not sure exactly what SE site my question belongs, I hesitated between stackoverflow, serverfault and superuser. Feel free to give suggestions about this in the comments.)
Here is my problem:
I ...
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Running two git commands in parallel
What happens if two git pull command are run simultaneously in the same directory?
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How to create user and password in one script for 100+ users
I have written a script for adding and setting password for 100+ users. Eg: for setting password of the user I want to set in "user+123" format for all the users I.e user will change according to the ...
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Limit a process or users physical memory share
I have a system running many processes on behalf of other users. Virtual memory space with 64bit operating systems is less of a concern, but my users will still often use up all the physical memory ...
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Is there a limit to # of users connected to a screen
When using screen -x NAME is there a max number of connections to a single screen?
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Who suspends my programs when I switch to another X session?
I always thought that on Linux all non-root users get the same treatment and always run in parallel, the kernel does not care whose X session is currently active. But now there seems to be some kind ...
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Multiuser Homebrew privileges
I have two users on my Mac. Both are me, but one is work mode, the other is non-work mode. I have an ongoing issue with installing via homebrew.
$ brew install x
Error: Can't create update lock in /...
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Rsnapshot multiuser
I have setup a server.
In this server I have made several users and those people are logging in on a regular basis.
I want to offer everyone to setup their own rsnapshot, so that they can take ...
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Shared, read-write, photo directory tree, for normal users
I.e. what I want is the Linux equivalent of Windows Public/Pictures.
The problem is that Linux file manager Nautilus doesn't apply default ACLs when you move a file into a folder/directory (nor good ...
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OOM-kill a process from user with highest memory consumption?
I have a multi-user system, where active users should get a fair share of the available memory.
Can I set up Linux to kill a process of the user with the highest total memory consumption?
This will ...
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Change user passwd with UID
Is it possible to change a user's password by UID?
[root@CentOS7 ~]# id usera
uid=1000(usera) gid=1000(usera) groups=1000(usera),10(wheel)
[root@CentOS7 ~]# man passwd
[root@CentOS7 ~]# passwd 1000
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Users withouth password (at least for login)
I have a desktop pc with 3 users on it. (Linux Mint 17 Rafaela)
These 3 users are mine, I use this configuration to isolate my work files and settings from the university files and my personal stuff. ...
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Is MacOS (OSX) a multi-user-operating-system?
We had to set up a MacOS (OSX) for testing iPhone app-development, but it was really awful to realize that mouse speed and input language, or applications that run as services (teamviewer) can be ...
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Two users with the same 'home' folder but different '.profiles'
I would like to have at least two users signing in the same home folder, so them need to have full access to this folder, but with different 'profile' behavior.
host-foo:
user1 : /home/foo-folder -&...
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Linux/Unix username length limit
Would it be difficult to increase the limit or would it just be a one-place change?
I have a system that could really elegantly make use of the Unix multiuser model for process isolation but I'd need ...
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Can multiple users issue commands simultaneously using tmate with separate cursors in the same session?
I've just installed tmate and tmate-slave on a VM and am wondering if when more than one user is part of the session, can tmate allow both users to work in synchronous mode, meaning each has their own ...
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Auto-start multiple background user sessions in Linux Mint
I could use some help with what I think is a basic request on the newest edition of Linux Mint (which I think would also be applicable to Ubuntu).
I have a home system with 3GB of RAM and accounts ...
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How to create permanent aliases on Unix-like systems?
I am looking for a simple way to create a permanent alias for all users. So ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile is not an option.
Hasn't anybody created a program for this? I think it should be a very ...
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Linux for use in a cyber café? [closed]
My friend owns a cyber café and is facing lot of problem with various Windows operating systems.
I thought about using Linux Mint or an Ubuntu flavor for the cyber café.
I've seen Linux Mint's user ...
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Sharing a terminal with multiple users (with screen or otherwise)
I am setting up a server where there are multiple developers working on multiple applications.
I have figured out how to give certain developers shared access to the necessary application directories ...
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How to set up networking on a per-user basis?
I would like to set up access to corporate VPN for just my user account on my computer; not for the other accounts and certainly not for the guest user.
To achieve this, I presume, I need to ...
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Can swap be encrypted per user?
The problem arises for a multiuser computer with encrypted swap, as to how to allow each user to hibernate and resume from hibernation without compromising the security of the other users.
I'm ...
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Is there a multi-user webdav server available for linux?
I'm looking to completely decommission my SMBA service and replace it with a WebDav service.
All the google searches so far have pointed me to using Apache / Webdav. This is close to what I need but ...
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Tracking user CPU hours
I am looking to work out which users on our system are using the most CPU resources.
to check this?
So I would like to find out:
CPU-hours this month, (and % of total)
CPU hours this week, (and % of ...
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How can I hide a command line from (e.g.) top & htop? [duplicate]
I know that both support specifying the username, which can be forced using an alias in root-owned ~/.bashrc, but one can temporarily disable the alias by prepending the command with \, so what are ...
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Making ruby available to all users
I intend to use Ruby when programming my Raspberry Pi which is running the Debian based Occidentals. Via SSH, I executed:
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
which downloaded the ruby ...
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