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  • Problem with running a script at startup as root?

    - by Usman Ajmal
    Hi The main question: Is there a way I can run 'completely' one of my script when ubuntu's desktop appears no matter if root , administrator, desktop user or an unprivileged user logged in? What does the script do? The script mounts a partition, looks for a file in that partition and finally on the basis of that file a decision of copying a partition to another partition is made. That copying is done via dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sda5 When does the script run finely? Script runs smoothly when I run it from the terminal by sudo ./my_copying_script This command asks me for the password of currently logged in user. I enter the password and the script starts working. When does the script NOT run finely? I want to run the script at startup. I set it a startup program by using the Startup Applications utility of Ubuntu. Script ran at startup but exited at the dd command returing following error: dd: opening '/dev/sda2': Permission denied On edk's suggestion I set the owner of my_copying_script as root and set the SUID. Now the permissions of my_copying_script are (-rwsr-sr-x). edk's point of view was that once I set the suid, the startup program will run with the permissions of its owner. I did that but the same /dev/sda2 permission denied error came up. I then prefixed the dd with sudo as mentioned below sudo dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sda5 but this returned following error: sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified In other words the mounting failed. If I run the script using sudo ./myProgram i don't face this problem and the drive gets mounted successfully.

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  • Is there a BSD equivalent to "!!"?

    - by CT
    I often find myself issuing a command that I do not have the proper elevated privileges for. On Ubuntu I could use sudo !! This would issue the same command with sudo privlidges. Is there an equivalent on OpenBSD? Edit: I should have been more specific on what version of OpenBSD. I am using OpenBSD 4.8 where sudo seems to be installed by default. I have already created a user besides root and edited my sudoers file to allow for that user to use sudo. My question is, is there already a built-in shortcut for the "!!" to use previous command.

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  • sudoers entries

    - by Pochi
    Is there a way to have a sudoers entry that allows executing of only a particular command, without any extra arguments? I can't seem to find a resource that describes how command matching works with sudoers. Say I want to grant sudo for /path/to/executable arg. Does an entry like the following: user ALL=(ALL) /path/to/executable arg strictly allow sudo access to a command exactly matching that? That is, it doesn't grant user sudo privileges for /path/to/executable arg arg2?

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  • What is the `/etc/hostname` used/required for?

    - by static
    I found in the /etc/hostname my IP-address, than I deleted it and each time I use sudo - I get a message and a system email sudo: unable to resolve host (none) or if in the /etc/hostname is saved myhostname than sudo: unable to resolve host (myhostname). I know it is used to set the system's hostname via /etc/init.d/hostname.sh while booting process, but what is this setting required for (programs, services, daemons ...)? What if i set to localhost (so it doesn't happen any sudo: unable to resolve host (none) anymore, but is it still ok?)? UPD1: I found some information here: http://jblevins.org/log/hostname, but it is all about how to use it and not about - why it is required.

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  • not being able to access any sudo function on my pc

    - by explorex
    Hi, I am not being to access any functions in my desktop and I don't have an OS besides Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Linux and I am new to ubuntu. I think I rebooted my computer thinking that Google Chrome crashed. I opened Google Chrome but it showed opening message but never opened so I restarted my computer. and when my system was loading ('i was playing with keyboard dont know what I typed') and when by ubutnu loaded, I was unable to access anything some of characteristics are listed below I cannot hear any sound I cannot access wired ethernet connection on the right corner where I usually enable to access interne and I have no internet. There is no local apache server either. when ever I try to start apacer I get setuid must be root or something. When I type sudo then I get message setuid must be root. I cannot access orther external storage devices like pendrive and portable hard drive and cannot mount my other drives with FAT32 filesystem. When I try to start my apache webserver with out typing sudo then I get message cannnot open socket or something like it. EDIT:: i remember also doing command chown -R www-data / earlier and got error message EDIT:: and i cannot shutdown my computer, it only logs off

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  • Kernel, dpkg, sudo and apt-get corrupted

    - by TECH4JESUS
    Here are some errors that I am getting: 1) A proper configuration for Firestarter was not found. If you are running Firestarter from the directory you built it in, run make install-data-local to install a configuration, or simply make install to install the whole program. Firestarter will now close. root@p:/# firestarter ** (firestarter:5890): WARNING **: The connection is closed (firestarter:5890): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported. (firestarter:5890): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (firestarter:5890): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (firestarter:5890): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (firestarter:5890): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (firestarter:5890): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (firestarter:5890): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (firestarter:5890): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. ^C 2) Also I cannot apt-get install sudo root@p:/# apt-get install sudo Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done sudo is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gir1.2-rb-3.0 gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10 libntfs10 python-mako libdmapsharing-3.0-2 rhythmbox-data libx264-116 rhythmbox libiso9660-7 librhythmbox-core5 libvpx0 libmatroska4 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 rhythmbox-mozilla rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist libattica0 libgpac0.4.5 python-markupsafe libmusicbrainz4c2a rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder rhythmbox-plugins libaudiofile0 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded. 9 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/76.3 MB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y /bin/sh: 1: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: not found (Reading database ... 495741 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic 3.2.0-24.39 (using .../linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic_3.2.0-24.39_amd64.deb) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic.prerm): No such file or directory dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm): No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic_3.2.0-24.39_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic.postinst): No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Preparing to replace linux-image-3.2.0-25-generic 3.2.0-25.40 (using .../linux-image-3.2.0-25-generic_3.2.0-25.40_amd64.deb) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-25-generic.prerm): No such file or directory dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm): No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.2.0-25-generic_3.2.0-25.40_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-25-generic.postinst): No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic_3.2.0-24.39_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.2.0-25-generic_3.2.0-25.40_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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  • scanning only works under "sudo" (Ubuntu)

    - by JoelFan
    When I try to scan, using simple-scan, the UI says Failed to scan -- Unable to connect to scanner. When I run it from the command line I get: joel@home:/usr/bin$ simple-scan -d ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: Starting Simple Scan 2.32.0.1, PID=6554 ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: Restoring window to 600x400 pixels ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: sane_init () -> SANE_STATUS_GOOD ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: SANE version 1.0.22 ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: Requesting redetection of scan devices ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: Processing request ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: Requesting scan at 300 dpi from device '(null)' ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: scanner_scan ("(null)", 300, SCAN_SINGLE) ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: sane_get_devices () -> SANE_STATUS_GOOD ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: Device: name="brother2:bus4;dev1" vendor="Brother" model="MFC-210C" type="USB scanner" ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: Processing request ** (simple-scan:6554): DEBUG: sane_open ("brother2:bus4;dev1") -> SANE_STATUS_IO_ERROR ** (simple-scan:6554): WARNING **: Unable to get open device: Error during device I/O FYI, I have already done: joel@home:~$ sudo chmod a+rwx /dev/bus/usb joel@home:~$ sudo chmod a+rwx /dev/bus/usb/* If I run under sudo: joel@home:~$ sudo simple-scan it works. How can I get simple-scan to work without sudo?

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  • 'sudo apt-get update' error on Ubuntu 12.04

    - by Mohd Arafat Hossain
    When I type in 'sudo apt-get update' I get this mohd-arafat-hossain@TUD:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for mohd-arafat-hossain: Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise InRelease Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates InRelease Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports InRelease Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise Release.gpg Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates Release.gpg Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports Release.gpg Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise Release Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates Release Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports Release Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com precise InRelease Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net precise InRelease Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com precise Release.gpg Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release.gpg Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com precise Release Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com precise/main Sources Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/main TranslationIndex Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Sources Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/multiverse TranslationIndex Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/restricted TranslationIndex Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com precise/main i386 Packages Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com precise/main TranslationIndex Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe TranslationIndex Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main i386 Packages Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main TranslationIndex Ign http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security InRelease Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security Release.gpg Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/main TranslationIndex Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security Release Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/multiverse TranslationIndex Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/restricted TranslationIndex Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/universe TranslationIndex Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/main Sources Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com precise/main Translation-en_US Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Translation-en_US Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com precise/main Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/main TranslationIndex Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/multiverse TranslationIndex Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/restricted TranslationIndex Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/universe TranslationIndex Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/main Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/restricted Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe Translation-en Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/restricted Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/universe Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/multiverse Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/main i386 Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/restricted i386 Packages Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/main Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/universe i386 Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/multiverse i386 Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/main TranslationIndex Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/multiverse TranslationIndex Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/restricted TranslationIndex Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/universe TranslationIndex Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/restricted Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/universe Translation-en Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/main Translation-en Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/restricted Translation-en Hit http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/universe Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/main Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/restricted Translation-en Hit http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/universe Translation-en Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/restricted Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/multiverse Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/restricted i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise/multiverse i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/restricted Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/universe Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/multiverse Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/restricted i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/universe i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/multiverse i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/restricted Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/universe Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/multiverse Sources 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/restricted i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/universe i386 Packages 404 Not Found Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/multiverse i386 Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/restricted/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/universe/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/multiverse/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/restricted/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/universe/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/restricted/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/universe/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/multiverse/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/restricted/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-backports/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-backports/restricted/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-backports/universe/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-backports/multiverse/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-backports/restricted/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-backports/universe/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-backports/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. How do solve this issue and not get this error. Please

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  • Installed Sun Java 6 - configuration problem when running as sudo

    - by HorusKol
    I have install Sun Java 6 on an Ubuntu server and set an environment variable in the default profile as per the instructions at http://www.edugate.ie/workshop-guides/shibboleth-2-identity-provider-installation-linux-debian-or-ubuntu I then try to run an installer for a Java servlet - but when I run it as myself, it cannot create the required directory in /opt. When I run it as sudo, I am told that JAVA_HOME is not correct and it doesn't even start the installer - shouldn't this be coming from /etc/profile like it is for my normal user?

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  • Recovering an Ubuntu installation - Ubuntu eats itself after 'sudo apt-get install -f'

    - by Tony Martin
    Updater (I assume) put a no entry style alert icon on the panel which informed me that certain package dependencies were not up to snuff. Upgrades were thereafter only partial. The dialogue advised that I sudo apt-get install -f. I did this hoping that app-get would fulfil dependencies and replace corrupted files and watched it systematically remove every component of linux, both the stuff I had installed and the core ubuntu packages. I could only assume at this stage that this was in preparation for a fresh install but, of course, I know better now - if you find yourself with apt-get warning you that you are about to remove several hundred packages and asking you to type an involved confirmation string seek advice before proceeding. I digress. This was a 64 bit install of 12.04. All that is left is grub pointing to a couple of windows recovery partitions on the hard drive. Thankfully the Ext4 partition is reachable from a stick boot. EDIT: I've logged onto the machine with a 64 bit stick and can see the file structure left behind by apt-get after {ahem} fixing. My first instinct was to run install from the stick but it seemed to want to do another install rather than a repair. My question then: is there a way to recover the current installation so that if I reinstall the packages I had they will pick up the original settings? I'm particularly worried about losing email from evolution - the rest I could probably lash back together. As for the use of PPA I'm not sure what you're driving at. I generally use Ubuntu Software Centre to install software, though I have used terminal scripts to add new repositories and software successfully following guidance on various websites. The most recent change I made was a downgrade of Wine in an attempt to install and run excel2007 (a necessity, I think, as I have VBA work to do). The installer had stalled and had to be killed. I wonder if that corrupted whatever database holds a model of the package installation structure. I would also be interested to know how this disaster came about. I see people in the know recommending the sudo apt-get install -f as a fairly innocuous cure in similar circumstances. Thanks for your attention, Tony Martin p.s. Do please forgive the rant aspects of the original post. It's hard to write rationally with a large hole in the pit of your stomach.

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  • Lot of "file not found" when using sudo find / -type s

    - by Andrea Moro
    In the attempt to understand why I keep getting the following error error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' while using the command sudo find / -type s the terminal prompted something like this find: ‘/proc/31348/task/31348/fd/5’: No such file or directory find: ‘/proc/31348/task/31348/fdinfo/5’: No such file or directory find: ‘/proc/31348/fd/5’: No such file or directory find: ‘/proc/31348/fdinfo/5’: No such file or directory What does this mean?

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  • recover from sudo rm -rf command

    - by user106116
    By mistake, I ended up executing "rm -rf /" command from sudo on my laptop which erased many files before it stopped. Now when I restarted my system , it gives a GRUB rescue prompt. I am having dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 I request the help for following: How do I fix the currently installed Ubuntu without overwriting/erasing the left over files (from rm -rf command)? Is using Boot-Repair safe ? Is there a way to directly go to Windows 7?

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  • Degrading administrative privilege to standard with single admin user account

    - by Vivek S Panicker
    I recently met with a severe issue with user accounts. In my system, there is only administrator user named vivek. I added another user with name vivi and changed its privilege to administrator. After clicked on my username, vivek,and changed its privilege to standard. Since vivek is being the current user, I dropped with all administrator privileges. No password was set for the new administrator user vivi and hence it was disabled by default. I no longer access to any administrative activities. Later I corrected this by editing etc/group file. Isn't this a severe bug? Being the current administrator user, how could I degrade myself to a standard user and got out from administrator's seat? I did not get any warning messages indicating no other administrators exists to manage my system. I suggest this warning should be included there in user accounts when an administrator user changes his privilege without any enabled administrators. Your thoughts?

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  • Add AD Domain user to sudoers from the command line

    - by Wyatt Barnett
    I'm setting up an Ubuntu 11.04 server VM for use as a database server. It would make everyone's lives easier if we could have folks login using windows credentials and perhaps even make the machine work with the current AD-driven security we've got elsewhere. The first leg of this was really easy to accomplish -- apt-get install likewise-open and I was pretty much in business. The problem I'm having is getting our admins into the sudoers groups -- I can't seem to get anything to take. I've tried: a) usermod -aG sudoers [username] b) adding the user names in several formats (DOMAIN\user, user@domain) to the sudoers file. None of which seemed to take, I still get told "DOMAIN\user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." So, how do I add non-local users to the sudoers?

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  • Issues running commands

    - by Joel
    Every time I run a command I get this back. E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? christopher@christopher:~$ This didn't start happening until I changed my device name.

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  • How can I determine whether a shellscript runs as root or not?

    - by EvilPhoenix
    This is something I've been curious about. I make a lot of small bash scripts (.sh files) to do tasks that I routinely do. Some of those tasks require everything to be ran as superuser. I've been curious: Is it possible to, within the BASH script prior to everything being run, check if the script is being run as superuser, and if not, print a message saying You must be superuser to use this script, then subsequently terminate the script itself. The other side of that is I'd like to have the script run when the user is superuser, and not generate the error. Any ideas on coding (if statements, etc.) on how to execute the aforementioned?

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  • How do I allow a standard user to update the kernel modules for VMware?

    - by GUI Junkie
    I've set up VMWare Player for my wife. Every once in a while (notably after a kernel update), the VMWare Player needs to be compiled into the kernel. My spouse does not have su- activated (if anybody screws up the OS, it's going to be me). I'd like to give her permission to do this, but only for that program. Is this possible? Can it be done safely (for the OS)? How can it be done? Edit: I tried to add the following to visudo guijunkette ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/vmware-modconfig When running with her user, after typing her password, the following error occurred: So, in the end, no cigar. Edit: I've given up on VMWare Player and moved to VirtualBox. Made a clean install.

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  • Why can't non-admin users install software?

    - by fiftyeight
    This is probably something I don't understand since I am used to Windows and am only starting out with Ubuntu. I know that software in linux comes in packages what I don't understand is why can't non-admin users install software. I mean, every application is run by a specific user, and that user will only be able to run that applciation with his privilages, so if he has no admin privileges, the application also won't be able to access unauthorized directories etc. I want most of the time to work on my PC with a non-admin user since it seems more safe to me, most of the time I have no need for admin privileges. and even though I know viruses in linux are uncommon I still think the best practice is to work on the computer in a state that you yourself can't make any changes to important files, that way viruses also can't harm any important files, but I need to install software for programming and web-design etc. and first of all I don't want to switch users all the time. But also it sounds safer to me that everything being done on the PC will be done through the non-admin user. I'll be glad to know what misunderstanding I have here, cause something here doesn't sound right.

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  • sudoers - simple explanation requested

    - by Redsandro
    Everytime I want to be able to run something that requires me to be a sudoer too many times, I need to google for the formatting of /etc/sudoers to remind me again what exactly is the proper way to write it. Now I see different writing styles in my sudoers file, which is the consequence of different google results over the months. I've also noticed that the second example (below) seems to work in XFCE, but not in Cinnamon (Gnome 3). This could be totally unrelated, but nontheless I'd like to know once and for all, what is the correct grammar of the sudoer line, and what is the difference between the given examples? redsandro ALL=NOPASSWD:/path/to/command redsandro ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/path/to/command redsandro ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:/path/to/command Also, what are all the ALL's for? One user, one command, yet I need to use the ALL keyword up to three times? Am I doing this wrong? Of course, omitting NOPASSWD: makes you enter your password before you are permitted to run the command, but one point of confusion is the usage of = and :, for the final command that is the subject of the line can be prepended by either =, :, , or ), confusing grammar for similar semantics.

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  • How can I add a new user as sudoer using the command line?

    - by David B
    After I add a user using adduser, I can't see it via System->Administration->Users and Groups unless I logout then login again. Is that normal? Also, can I set a newly added user as a sudoer or do I have to change that only after adding it? How can I do that via the shell? Finally, can I delete the original user that was created upon initial installation of ubuntu, or is this user somehow 'special'?

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  • apt-get could not open lock file

    - by user114373
    I am trying to get an nfs client running on a Sheeva-plug running debian 2.6.22. The host is Ubuntu 12.04 and claims (from showmount -e) to be exporting the desired directory. There is no showmount binary in the sheeva-plug, so I'm trying to install it from the nfs-common package: # apt-get install nfs-common The response ends with E: could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (no such file or directory) E: Unable to lock the download directory. I am root while doing this. Similar errors arise when trying to install other packages. How do I correct these errors so apt-get will do its work?

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  • How can I run everything as root

    - by Hermione
    I have dual booted to lubuntu (with Windows XP) and everytime and then I'm getting asked for my password. How do I run everything as root and not ask a password again? Ideally I wanted to run nginx but it has permission denied issues: apathetic@ubuntu:~$ service nginx start Starting nginx: nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied) 2012/08/03 20:06:25 [warn] 4762#0: the "user" directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1 nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok 2012/08/03 20:06:25 [emerg] 4762#0: open() "/var/run/nginx.pid" failed (13: Permission denied) nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

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  • Regain Sudo rights after removing from admin group

    - by berkes
    Hello, I accidentally removed myself from the admin group when editing the user. Now I can no longer use sudo. The error says: ber is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. I booted up in rescue mode, but, when going into root prompt, it asks me for the root password. I don't have one, and providing with my own (first and only ubuntu-user) password, it won't allow entrance. My harddisk is encrypted, but only the /home/user part, not the entire disk, afaik. What can I do?

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  • "sudo apt -get install foo-" causes removing foo package and everything depends on it

    - by M.Elmi
    While working in command prompt, I accidentally typed following command: sudo apt-get install python3- and ubuntu started removing python3 and everything depends on it (including firefox and much more). Fortunately I closed that terminal immediately and reverted everything by checking dpkg log file, but I was wondering why an install command should act like remove? Is it a bug? Consider the situation that you are looking for a package name (pressing Tab twice) and going through possibilities by pressing Enter key and those Enter keys remain in the keyboard buffer and.... youhaaaa... apt-get is removing the entire installation in front of your eyes.

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