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I have had many requests lately to install Ubuntu on older and newer laptops by our customers. And although I really like it and use it myself on my personal laptop I have a hard time installing it ...
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I’m running Ubuntu 24.04 on a Raspberry Pi 5. A few months had passed since my last update, so I recently executed sudo apt-get upgrade. After all packages were updated and I rebooted the system, I ...
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How would I display a list of disabled / locked users?
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I have a problem not being able to close windows with ctrl-w, see can't close windows with ctrl-w anymore. Investigating this I create a new user, x, logging in as x ctrl-w works as expected. Now I ...
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I'm trying to understand where the configuration files are that define the default values for the home directory and its structure. In RHEL 9, these values are set in the: /etc/default/useradd but ...
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I have a 64GB bootable USB drive on which I have installed and customized Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. I would like to create a copy of this drive. On the 64GB USB copy, I will keep the same software and ...
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I have an Ubuntu 24.04.2 machine at a remote customer site, connected to a touch-screen monitor. I can 'fully' manage this machine by connecting with SSH or RDC, this works really well, and I can do ...
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In the man pages for the ps command, we have the following options -U userlist Select by real user ID (RUID) or name. It selects the processes whose real user name or ID is in the ...
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What can I do in Ubuntu for preventing normal users from logging in during system maintenance? (This is on a server where user accounts are just local user accounts, not network accounts.) man 5 ...
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I did a crontab job for my user with crontab -l. After that I ran crontab -e and selected Nano. Then I entered my command: @reboot expressvpn connect "USA - Michigan" When I login with my ...
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After a VPS forced migration by host, main user ubuntu is desactivated. VPS restart at 10PM and /etc/shadow file have been modified at 10PM. Change is the ! added: ubuntu:!$ Host says it can't be them....
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When Ubuntu Desktop is being installed is requested create a primary user, let's named as tron Once installed the OS is possible later do updates in the system through the sudo apt update command and ...
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I installed Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store after setting up WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), but after launching Ubuntu, I encountered an issue. By default, I am logged in as the root user, and ...
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I'm struggling to access an MCU connected to the USB and presented as a serial port: /dev/ttyACM0. What worked well in Ubuntu 22.04 does not work in 24.04. Whenever I connect the device, the only way ...
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I am currently using AMD Ryzen 5500 U CPU and am new to using Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS ,the installation of Ubuntu was a bit tricky as i had to edit the grub config and set it to nomodeset in order to boot ...
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