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How to sync/update NIS group and user information from other machine

We have around 10 Linux Ubuntu server machines using NIS/NFS. I recently noticed that a machine showed a weird numbered user name, not real user name. And this probably makes some problems on a ...
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VSFTP Users and Directories

I'm stuck. I've been working all day on trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong and I've hit wall after wall. What I'm trying to do: Setup FTP in such a way that certain users have access only to ...
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Receiving 530 login incorrect error for all user accounts other than my own: vsftpd Ubuntu 12.04

I just setup a vsftpd server. I have a few accounts for family and friends (actual useradd accounts) and mounted a shared directory in their home folder. However, I seem to be the only one with ftp ...
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How to create an ubuntu user with partial sudoer rights

Am wondering whether it's possible to create a user in ubuntu 11.10 server with custom sudo rights.I mean by that an use who can start and shutdown the box but who can't access /var/www for example or ...
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Changed login for a user with encrypted home, now I can't login

I changed a user's login by doing this: $ usermod old_login -l new_login I also wanted to move his home to reflect his new username, but it wouldn't let me, so I just rebooted. But now after I ...
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How can I recreate my user in Ubuntu?

I would like to start from scratch. How would I delete my user, including all data, but still have a way of recreating it? My user is the only user on the computer. It is also the administrative ...
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Create new home directory for a user in Ubuntu

A quick question on user management in Ubuntu 10.04. I encounter the following practice in some deployment script for web server: mkdir /home/www-data cd /home/www-data wget ...
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Where is my user's home folder in Ubuntu?

Recently I installed Ubuntu and Wine. I can't see all folders in Ubuntu and tried to navigate to /home/username/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Application Data/ I couldn't find the ...
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Rename user's group name

I just did usermod -l login-name old-name to change the username, but the group name is still the old one. Any way of renaming the group name? I can't find any info to do so.
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How do I create a superuser from the command line in Ubuntu? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to create a admin user on ubuntu How can I create a superuser in Ubuntu 11.10? I need to create it using the command line. Either we could change a normal user to ...
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Is it possible to alias a username on Linux?

I'm not sure if this has a practical application at all (aside from the fact that I am lazy. you know "christopher" has 11 characters, and I want to type 1), but is it possible to alias a username on ...
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Running Apache as a different user

When I run the ps -efH command to list out all the process, I can see Apache running as root and seems to have sub-processes running as www-data. Here's the excerpt: root 30117 1 0 09:10 ? ...
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Can I set a unique date/time for a single user in Ubuntu?

Is there a way to give different users unique system date/times in Ubuntu? For example, if I wanted the date to always be June 22nd for user Bob (because that's his birthday) but still have the ...
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Ubuntu removing user

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on Virtualbox in Windows 7. I gave admin permissions to a new account and deleted my old main Ubuntu user (the one with which I installed ubuntu). I also deleted the home ...
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How can I change my uid without opening another user account?

I'm using ubuntu 10.10. I wish to change my user id. How can I change it without opening another account? I tried using System->Administration->Users and Groups but I got a message saying the ...
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How do I create an admin user on Ubuntu?

I want to create a a user having sudo powers in Ubuntu. How can I do that?
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Owner group of /var/www

If I change the owner of /var/www to ftpgroup sudo chown :ftpgroup /var/www am I going to have other kind of issues ? Or is that ok ?
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How can I create a user on Ubuntu with the same permissions as the initial user?

I want to create a user account on an Ubuntu Lucid system that has the same permissions as the original user account that was created during the install process. How can I do this? Imaginary bonus ...
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Alternative to fast user switch applet in Ubuntu Lucid

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu Jaunty to Lucid and one thing that is missing is the fast user switch applet. This is confirmed by this bug, for example. The fast user switch applet was good, because ...
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I need to access another user's files

My system is an HP netbook running Ubuntu 10 netbook edition from a USB drive. I created an admin account and user account, and left in place the 'ubuntu' account. My netbook came with Windows 7 ...
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Help me understand Ubuntu user/group permissions

I'm beginning to deal with more than one user on my system (it's a VPS serving some sites) and I need to make sure I understand how group permissions work. Here's my setup: I have an account named ...
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Nautilus remote mount resolve numeric uids and gids to names

In Gnome Nautilus I have a remote samba mount through SSH under Ubuntu 10.04 (gvfs). When I check any file properties it displays the user and group as numeric. Is there a way to make it get the names ...
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Sharing accounts between multiple computers running Ubuntu Linux

My school has a computer lab full of machines running Red Hat Linux. They have it set up so that you can log into any computer in the lab, and it automatically loads your desktop, home directory, etc, ...
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How to lock a user into his home folder in Ubuntu?

How to lock a user into his home folder in Ubuntu?
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deleting first user from Ubuntu install

I noticed that the username I used to install Ubuntu got added to a bunch of groups in the /etc/group file. I'm getting rid of unneeded accounts. Would anything break if I removed that first ...
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What's difference between group admin and adm?

There's two similar groups in ubuntu: admin and adm, I found that /var/log/apache2 is in the adm group, and default sudoers includes admin group, what's difference between the two?
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Understanding groups in Ubuntu

How can you run the following pseudo-command? sudo chown :twin::rwx /usr/local/copyrightLinux I want that each user in the group twin can read, write and execute all files which belong to the group ...
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Ubuntu: Accidentally changed root user to nonexistent shell

I tried to change my user's shell, but used "sudo chsh", and changed the root shell to "bash" instead of "/bin/bash". Now when I try to change it I get "chsh: PAM authentication failed" and it seems ...
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How can I log into Ubuntu-9.04 as administrator or root?

My problem is that whenever I try using sudo, I get an error message saying: shawn is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. How can I add my user to the sudoers file? Or how can I ...