Usually access is acquired by providing the system with authentication details such as a user account's password. A login procedure can also include authentication by means of keys, smart cards, fingerprints or any other digital authentication method.
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How do I log out of all Stack Exchange accounts at once? [migrated]
So far I've started using Super User, Stack Overflow, Ask Ubuntu and Photography on the Stack Exchange network. Every time I log into one of them (with Google ID) and go to another one of these four ...
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1answer
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Require password after screen saver
In the screen saver settings for xp/w7
Our "wait time" and "On resume, display logon screen" are greyed out.
We've been told there is no group policy to cause this. Wait time is set to 15 minutes and ...
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0answers
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Changed userid on Mac OS X 10.7 and am now missing login icon for my user
I changed my userid on my new MBP (10.7) to match the NFS id I have with my NAS and my mac mini (from default 501 to 1000) and now my picture no longer shows up on the login screen. I have the same ...
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0answers
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SSH host is down
When connecting to any of my servers over the local LAN from my macbook pro I get ssh host is down, however connecting from issh on my ipad does not result in the same problem.
Also I have logged ...
2
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3answers
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Login with SSH user that has no password set
I have a user without a password set (i.e. passwd -d).
I would not like to use public keys on this setup.
Is there a way to SSH login to such a user?
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0answers
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Remote login in sharing pane always on but ssh is not working
On my work i've a mac pro intel with Leopard server. Somebody was turning of remote login in the sharing pane too often so İ was searching for a way to enable remote login but hiding it from the ...
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OS X 10.6.x: How to use launchd to start a script at specific system events (startup, login, logout, shutdown)?
We've tried to create scripts that run at startup, login, logout and shutdown. We had them up and running with 10.4 but can't get it running with 10.6
What is the right way to use launchd/launchctl to ...
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3answers
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Why am I always asked to unlock my login keyring at startup?
I'm using the xfce window manager and reboot and shutdown seem to work normally.
However, whenever I log back in, I always see the following:
Why do I always see this message? I would expect that ...
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2answers
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User profile cannot be loaded
I play this online game called sudden attack which requires download, but recently its been loading slow. So I log off went into safe mode to try to figure out problem.
Once I couldn't figure it out ...
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1answer
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Windows login screen in a different keyboard 'language' than windows
Recently I had to change my domain password. I did, and used the new password all day, logging in to various services using it.
I then rebooted the machine, and when I can to login to the machine ...
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1answer
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More than one LoginHook(s)?
My question is fairly straight forward: can you have more than one LoginHook or more than one LogoutHook?
I've done my own research and it looks like every time you add a new LoginHook, the previous ...
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2answers
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Does the Windows Task Scheduler have a way to run a command a set time after the user logs on?
Does the Windows Task Scheduler have a way to run a command a set time after the user logs on?
I prefer it to run the first time anybody logs on, whether manually or if the computer is set to logon a ...
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0answers
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How to set Trillian to remember an Astra account and automatically log in on future startups?
I am unable to find a way to set Trillian to remember my Astra account and automatically log me in on future startups. Every time I restart it it asks for my password and there is no checkbox to ...
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3answers
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How do I turn off the Last Interactive Logon message?
After entering my password at the login screen, I am presented with the following message:
Gilad (Gilad-PC \ Gilad)
Successful Login:
The last time you interactively logged on to this account was in ...
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1answer
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Mac OSX 10.7 - Startup Program for all Users
Is there away in OSX to have a program launched for each user at login. This mac is connected to our domain so there is no way to know which accounts will be used on this mac in advance.
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1answer
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how to log on host if dc on virtual server
If my only Domain Controller is on a Windows 2008 Hyper-v server then do I always have to use a local (non-domain) credentials to login to the host server & the Hyper-v server after a reboot?
I ...
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3answers
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Why won't IE let users login to a website unless in In Private mode?
I'm not entirely sure this belongs on SuperUser.com. I also considered ServerFault.com and StackOverflow.com, but on balance, I think it should belong here?
We host a website which has the same code ...
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0answers
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Canon iR2018 login not working [closed]
Today i've impulsively configured my multiservice printer with user account. Now I can't login. When I powered off then powered on it requires username and password. In manual, there is a password ...
0
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0answers
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LSUIElement on Automator application
So I have made an Automator application and put it in my login/startup items. My Automator application is an infinite loop. I didn't want it to display an icon in the dock, so I asked this question. ...
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2answers
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“Open file with” dialog upon startup?
Every time I login to my PC, I receive this message:
Now, it's not that big of a deal, and Windows 7 works just fine. What's odd is that it's supposedly just a generic 'Program' that 7 is trying to ...
0
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1answer
104 views
Windows 7 enterprise lock out; only displaying admin user
I was trying to set up a home network on my Windows 7 admin machine, to do this, I needed to log in as an admin.
The problem is, I restarted the computer and now only the admin user is being ...
2
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2answers
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Local XP account randomly locks
So there's a computer on my network at work that has a local account on it. This computer is on the network but not on the domain. The account is used to create gift cards. At least once a week ...
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0answers
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Permanently Disable Dell Latitude 2120 Touchscreen in X.org Upon Start-up and Suspend/Restore
In the spirit of full disclosure, below is the background, tl;dr: I am running Lubuntu Oneiric and I want to disable my borked touchscreen, running it on X.org start-up works but suspending the system ...
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2answers
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Default Windows 7 logon account picture for all users?
I'm trying to figure out how to set a default Windows 7 logon account picture (the box just above the username field - looks like a picture frame) for all users. The environment is a computer lab, ...
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1answer
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Still cannot SSH without password even after adding public key
I use ssh-copy-id to add public key to another host. This is the output:
Now try logging into the machine, with "ssh 'hostB'", and check in:
.ssh/authorized_keys
to make sure we haven't added extra ...
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0answers
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How to delete stored user names in the Logon Information Properties dropdown list
I'm using Windows XP.
In the "Stored User Names and Passwords" dialog box, under Properties, in the User Name drop down list, it shows a bunch of old server\usernames.
How can I edit that listing to ...
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3answers
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Account fails to load properly - Freezes
I've got a Dell Inspiron 1520 from 2007, and when I try to load any of the accounts on it, it is able to pass the login screen and get to a desktop. It loads the icons on the desktop, the background, ...
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1answer
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Accessing X$ share on a personal computer
I need to access some of my hard drives on my desktop PC from my laptop without setting a public share folder. I run Windows 7 Ultimate on both
When I try to connect to \mycomputer\e$ it asks me for ...
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Can't login with blank password on Lion OSX
Having slight issue with my Lion install. I removed the password from the admin account as it's not desired. However when I'm on the login screen, it wont accept the blank password. It shows the user ...
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0answers
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Screen goes off for ~20 Seconds after Windows 7 splash screen
A strange thing I have noticed is the following. When booting Windows 7 x64 on my Thinkpad e520, right after the "Starting Windows" screen (glowing windows flag) my screen goes blank for 10-20 seconds ...
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1answer
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Allow Verified Users Only To View Directories
I want to upload some websites I have worked on to an Apache server. What I would like to do though is to use an .htaccess file or something similar to redirect the user to a login page if they go ...
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2answers
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change GNOME3 login background and prompt
I have GNOME3 on Debian and cannot for the life of me figure out how to customize the login screen, either background or box itself. Thoughts? I'm good with the terminal :P
Also, Compiz does not do ...
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0answers
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Only one user can't log into my Fedora 14
I have three users on my system
me
server
misc
From the GUI, I can easily switch between 1) and 3). However when I try to switch to 2), it asks for the password. The screen goes blank for some ...
3
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1answer
172 views
Login to WiFi networks without password?
Does "Hotspot Shield" automatically log me in to a WiFi network where I don't know the network password, where the network may or may not be free?
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2answers
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Force logout a user
I When I logged into the machine as root and typed who to see which users are logged in, I found somebody else too logged in as root
devuser pts/0 2011-11-18 09:55 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
root ...
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1answer
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Disabling only password ssh access for root
I know it's possible to disallow root logins via ssh, and that it is a Good Idea™ to disallow root to ever login via ssh (preferring instead to use sudo or similar).
Is it possible to allow ...
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2answers
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Why does the login check take longer if the password is wrong? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Why would an incorrect password attempt take a lot longer to process than a correct one?
I noticed that when starting Windows and being prompted for a password, if you ...
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Windows 7 Logon Screen - Not showing any users
I've just installed the Windows Home Server 2011 connector.
After restarting at the prompt, Windows tries to log in as user "clientsetup$" and there are no other user tiles present when I switch ...
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2answers
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Windows XP Domain Machines Log Off Randomly
I am getting a family of computer that randomly log users off during the day. After the logoff, the user name box shows administrator no matter who was formerly logged on.
I believe it is malware ...
0
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1answer
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Mac Terminal Login Permission Denied
After an errant script in my .bash_profile created thousands of files on my computer and bogged it down to inoperable speeds I've managed to fix it by booting into single user mode and executing a ...
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1answer
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Secure way of doing auto-login & locking the screen
I had one answer here about how to do auto-login & sceen locking
How to do silent auto-login?
however it is not secure, how to do that more secure way?
P.S. I tried the free tool called Auto ...
4
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4answers
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Options to centralise accounts on home network
I have a home network consisting of a few physical machines (all windows XP,7) and recently I have built an esxi box for creating virtual machines.
Thus far I have been enabling file sharing to ...
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0answers
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Run script automatically when Windows goes into hibernate or wakes up?
I am using the Group-Policy feature in Windows-XP to run scripts automatically when you logon or logoff.
But is it also possible to make a script run automatically, whenever a Windows-xp machine is ...
0
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2answers
641 views
What can I do when Ubuntu 11.10 doesn't recognize my password?
Currently I'm dual-booting Ubuntu along side Windows 7. I recently upgraded to 11.10, and everything was going fine for a bit. However, I can no longer log in with my user account. The guest account ...
2
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2answers
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Windows XP moved to a pc with only USB ports: can't login USB keyboard will install driver only after login)
That's it.
This Windows xp used without problems a ps/2 keyboard.
Now I've moved it (using noton ghost) to a newer pc (without ps/2) and I think that I'll have usb keyboard driver installed ONLY ...
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2answers
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New Admin user account password repetitively fails to login in Windows 7
Strange problem. From a Windows 7 Admin account I create a new user with admin privileges. Then I set a new password for the new account and log out of the original Admin account. Then I try to ...
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4answers
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~30 second logon for Windows 7 64bit
I have quite a reasonably spec'd machine:
i7-2600k @4Ghz
OCZ Velocity 3 ssd
1tb cavier black hdd
The issue:
The 'welcome' logon screen takes ~30sec to finish and bring me to desktop and it ...
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0answers
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Windows XP login at domain takes too long
I have a computer which is connected to network of my office.
We have to login using our username and password with the office's domain name, which is shown when we click Options on the right side ...
2
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0answers
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Windows 7 Logs in to “public” user
I have issues that sometimes when I log into windows (on a specific account) it shows public user (C:\Users\Public)'s desktop.
All of the users are in a domain. I tried deleting the user through ...
2
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1answer
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How to hide user account from Windows 7 welcome screen, without changing registry manually?
Can I hide user account from Windows 7 welcome screen, without changing registry manually and without disabling the account?
I've done this once by following instructions on a website, now I cant ...
