Questions tagged [usermod]
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It says always I'm not in "sudoers" file!
I migrated from Ubuntu-20 to Debian-12, and I can't excute the command sudo with my username my_name within a fresh installed system.
So, I added my_name into "sudo" group(usermod -aG sudo ...
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Change user ID of user in Linux, but don't touch the files in the home directory
I want to change the user ID of www-data, but not touch the files in the home directory.
usermod man page:
-u, --uid UID
The new numerical value of the user's ID.
This value must be ...
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How to change user home directory when in use by /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
After copying all contents of a user home directory I'm trying to change the home directory to the new location. But systemd prevents me from doing this.
# sudo usermod -d /data/home/user/ user
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Kali Linux freezes after I log in, but not if I log into root first and then switch user
I recently changed the default kali username and password via following a tutorial that used usermod commands. However, after logging back into the newly named account, the screen freezes on the ...
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Ramifications of renaming a user [duplicate]
I'm setting up two computers with MX Linux that will be nearly identical, with a lot of customization from the original distro. I installed and customized the first one for User1, and will basically ...
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Completely lock user account on server, including ssh
I need to lock some user accounts, without messing with their HOME, if at all possible.
Normal way would be usermod -L user but it seems to leave open ssh login with public key authentication (...
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undo usermod for root?
At some point where I wanted to do
sudo usermod -v 1000-1000 USER
sudo usermod -w 1000-1000 USER
I accidentally applied both these commands to root.
According to the documentation I can undo these ...
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username is currently used by process
I am trying to change the home directory of a user. using
usermod ravishshankar --home /var/www/domainname/public_html/ but get
usermod: user username is currently used by process 1378
I try to kill ...
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Difference between "usermod -aG" and "usermod -G" options
I'm preparing for the LPIC-1, exam 102, and was wondering what is the difference between these two commands with respect to options -G and -aG:
usermod -G projectA, projectB jsmith
usermod -aG ...
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Trying to change kali username, user is currently used by process
On a VMware Workstation Player VM, I have been trying to change my default user account name "kali". The command I tried was usermod -l newname kali. But it gives me the error usermod: user ...
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User and Group Management
While working on Linux Essentials, I was experimenting with removing a user (me) from a group I created. Following online instructions, I ended up deleting myself from all the default groups and my ...
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Give a user admin right to run yum on centos 8
I give a user admin access with: usermod -a -G wheel userX
but when I log in with userX, I am not able to run yum. What do I need to do?
Thanks
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Why doesn't "usermod" work under superuser?
The usermod command successfully through sudo.
sudo usermod -aG some_group some_user
However, if you execute it through su, then there will be an error.
su
...I enter root password...
usermod -aG ...
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Not being able to edit user's info in linux
I have managed to write this code. It runs, but no change was made to the user's info. It seems like usermod isn't working. What I am wanting to do is, to be able to edit existing user's info in the ...
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Difference between expired account and inactive account
After a command like:
$ usermod -e <yesterday> -f <tomorrow> bea
Bea's account will be expired, but still active (until tomorrow).
What's the difference? What could happen yesterday ...
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chgrp chown usermod are useless if not root?
I am logged under 'achille'
achille belongs to 2 groups:
groups achille
achille: achille users
I want to change the group owner of file 'tree.test' to group 'users'
ls -l tree.test
-rw-r--r--. ...
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useradd account cant login through GUI
I'm using KALI fresh install.
Linux kali 5.2.0-kali2-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 5.2.9-2kali1 (2019-08-22) i686 GNU/Linux
I created a user using
useradd akkilah
Then i added this user to sudo group
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single user, once with once without sudo
I have added a new user on my ubuntu machine with the following command:
sudo adduser test
and then granted him sudo with:
sudo usermod -aG sudo test
So far everything seems pretty standard. The ...
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Sudoers permissions to new user that only allow "useradd and usermod"
I want to create a new user and I want this user to be allowed to only run "useradd" and "usermod"
Will I need to configure the sudoers file?
Not sure how to go about this.
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unable to boot directly to desktop environment
I tried to change a user's login name with usermod --login krypton maddybut now everytime I reboot my pc, it doesn't directly shows the desktop environment and I need to do Ctrl+Alt+F2 and then startx ...
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command to add multiple “secondary groups” for a user in Solaris
I am trying to add 2 secondary groups for a user is Solaris system, but not able to do so. It only adds 1 secondary groups. I've done enough R&D, not sure what to do.
Below command I am using :
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Cannot su into root default shell - Debian
I am using a Debian 9 server.
Usually I access via ssh to a normal user (say user1) and su into root, because I disabled ssh into root.
Lately I was setting up a git-server where I created a user git ...
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unable to add user to group fedora 29
I used groupadd to add a group so that I could manage with git some root owned scripts.
I then used usermod to add a user to a group. The user is the currently logged in standard user and I am in a ...
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Unable to add user to a group due to sssd?
I'm working on Fedora 29 x86_64 fully patched. I'm trying to add my user to the dialout group so I can open the modem:
$ ls -Al /dev/ttyUSB0
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 188, 0 Feb 22 19:27 /dev/...
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Solaris 5.10 shell replacement for Centos 7 migration
I have an old Solaris 5.10 server. I'm migrating the tomcat products to Centos 7. There are two accounts on the Solaris server that I need to migrate. The shells for both of those accounts are ...
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usermod command not working on solaris
I am trying to add one more group in already added supplementary groups for a user.
rcc is the name of the supplementary group I need to add
sm254040 is the user id.
when I run the command
usermod -...
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whoami returns user, but usermod complains it doesn't exist
I have Linux (Ubuntu) on a VM provided by corporate IT in my organization,
and I have a user "myuser".
whoami is able to return the username:
myuser@host:/home/myuser$ whoami
myuser
id returns info ...
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non-root user set group ownership
The official Red Hat System Administration I RH124 says:
root can grant ownership to any group, while non-root users can grant
ownership only to groups they belong to
[student@web ~]$ id ...
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Automated logout of present session to refresh group commands?
So, I'm looking at automating a setup of service instances with AWS.
AWS allows you to run shell scripts on instance creation.
However! I've run into one little snag. I want, on initial ssh into the ...
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Why does usermod default to overwriting secondary groups?
As anyone who has used usermod to add a user to a group knows, invariably a mistake will be made (probably once in a career and not again) in which -a is forgotten and the secondary groups are ...
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linux + how to verify user is in group? [duplicate]
how to verify that new user was added to group?
example
by this syntax I will add the user dog to group - white_house_group
usermod -a -G white_house_group dog
after that , how to verify that ...
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ID results different depending on who asks
I have userX who has realtime privileges thorugh the realtime group. I wanted to give that user admin privileges so I switched to root
~>su root
and ran
#>usermod -a -G root userX
After a ...
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Reserving a range of anonymous UIDs; /etc/subuid
I need a range of uids (say a few thousand) for a setuid-root tool to use.
Is there a protocol to registering such a range or do I just pick a range and hope no other program will use those uids?
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