Questions tagged [administrator]
The account type that Ubuntu users must be before they are allowed to elevate their permissions through "sudo".
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ubutu sudo user add user and administrator privileges
Authentication Required
to change your privacy settings you need to authenticate
administrator
password
a pop displaying above text
and user is not in sudoers file
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Unexpected logout
My Ubuntu version is Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. Although I've been using it without any problems so far, it's suddenly happened that my administrator account is immediately logouted whenever I login. ...
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User no longer in sudoers after installing ssh
My admin account was added to sudoers and worked fine. I set up SSH and xRDP on my computer. I used the exact same username for these programs. Now when I try to sudo, it says my user is not in the ...
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Getting Access denied for administrator while trying to run a sudo command
I'm getting Access denied for the administrator while trying to run a sudo command, but the command is getting executed.
How to resolve this issue?
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How do I become an Administrator of my own Ubuntu machines?
I have several Ubuntu machines for learning purposes. They are on old laptops from family members.
How do I become an Admin for these laptops. I want to update them from my machine, I want to create ...
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Ubuntu is lagging after deleting gvfs and gvfs-admin
Every time I launch my PC it takes at least 10 minutes to login and launch application.
The problem started after I deleted two files called "gvfs" and "gvfs-admin". Now my PC has ...
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What could cause a "user not in passwd" error when using su, ssh connection refusal on a Ubuntu 20.04 Web Server?
Something happened on one of our server running Ubuntu 20.04 that caused a co-worker who was logged in via ssh at the time to get a "user not in passwd" error when they tried to use the su ...
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I can't login for administrator access [duplicate]
So whenever I try to use sudo commands on my Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop(I have a partition for Ubuntu) and I am asked to type password ,even though I type in correct password I get a notification ...
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crontab not deleting files
I have crontab commands on Ubuntu 20.04, that looks like this :
* * * * * /usr/bin/find /backup-nfs/ -name "*.sql" -path "/backup-nfs/*.sql" -type f -mtime +1 -delete
* * * * * ...
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How to make unaccessible /root/ directory for other admin users?
By using sudo command, other admin users can get access to the /root/ directory, using their credentials. How to make it impossible ?
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Your authentication attempt was unsuccessful (for sudoer)
After installing Ubuntu I have created a new user and gave it all privileges in /etc/sudoers:
user2 ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
However now user2 cannot do admin tasks from GUI, like formatting a disk ...
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Encrypt SVN for users group
Could anyone advise how to encrypt SVN , Plan to encrypt or disable the SVN from asking if unencrypted passwords should be stored? We never want a user to be able to do that.
Is there possibility that ...
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Run Terminal Commands simultaneosly on multiple systems on the same network [duplicate]
Title states the question. I have to run terminal command(s) on multiple systems at the same time. For instance, I have to run sudo apt install -y firefox on every computer on the same network. Say, I ...
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User's sudo password doesn't work in GUI dialogs
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04. I have a user that allows me to do sudo operations. I can login with root without any problem.
I'm try to install a new keyboard language through the GUI (Settings etc.). This ...
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I cannot reset my account psw [duplicate]
I have a problem I cannot solve. When I first got Ubuntu on my pc, it came with a password I didn’t set and that prevents me from doing basically anything. I tried changing it with all the methods I ...
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