Questions tagged [login]
Process of acquiring access to a system's (advanced) functions by proving identity, frequently by supplying a password.
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/run/user/$UID directory not created after "su - user" while $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is properly defined
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We are working on RHEL 8.5 with an applicative user 'userpodman' created specially for executing podman commands.
This user was created with the following set of commands:
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Tailscale login issue "Something went wrong"
A couple of days ago I finished building my own private 10 inch network rack containing an openWRT router appliance, a managed switch, some upgraded Lenovo M700 ThinkCentres to run a couple of ...
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How to get rid of the sign-in prompt for Microsoft Office 365?
Every time I open one of the Office 365 applications on my personal Windows 10 desktop, I get this sign-in prompt.
I'm already signed into Office 365 with my personal Microsoft account. This pop-up ...
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Firefox login on a particular website works ONLY when password has not been saved previously
I experience a strange behavior from Firefox 129.0.1 (Linux version, 64 bit), but it also occurred in previous versions. When I go to my banking website at blsk.de, there is a login for online banking....
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DynDNS for VPN: Disable delivery of login page for the web on FRITZ!Box
I want to access my home network from the internet using WireGuard. My router, a FRITZ!Box, has it built-in, so its easy to activate. As I do not have a fixed IP, I use my domain and dynDNS; sending ...
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Suppress light-locker "Password" string during login
I've installed lightdm and light-locker in Debian 12 (no desktop environment but I've also installed xorg and i3).
After I enter my password and press enter from the lockscreen I reach with "...
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on screen keyboard is stuck on sticky key at login
The on screen keyboard is stuck in shift, so I can't login, I usually just login with the wireless keyboard, but can't because of this issue I'm using windiest 10, any help at all appreciated.
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Event viewer showing 'logon' events, even when I'm currently using that PC
I am trying to see logon events(entering password to access PC).
However, I see many logon events in the past 1hr, even though I was using PC in the past 1hr without loggin in/out.
Why is Event Viewer ...
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Sonoma doesn't accept right password
A Mac Studio running MacOS Sonoma suddenly stopped accepting the legit user password.
No Keymap or Keyboard problems, just not accepting the password.
I have heard of a few related cases with Sonoma ...
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smart card login without network [closed]
We have many branches that are connected to the headquarters (on-premise Windows domain) via the Internet (ADSL connection -> VPN). Users at the branch offices log into Windows using smart cards. ...
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Ubuntu Only Opens in Console Mode
To start, I'm running Ubuntu 24.04.4. I recently tried switching from KDE Plasma back to gnome. I (somewhat naively) ran the command
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop && sudo apt purge kubuntu-...
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How to Copy session (logged in users of gmail ) of a chrome from one computer to the other computer?
I bought a new laptop and I have copied all the data from one pc to another including the App data.
I want to transfer my logged in session of gmail from my old laptop to new laptop, without entering ...
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How to change the logon account of a service (available in services.msc) in windows and start the service using powershell
I'm trying to create a script that should change the logon account and start the service with the new account credentials added.
I have tried to write the following script and when I run the script ...
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Start user session without logon upon restart
I've seen this question but I have a specific requirement: I need to have a windows server machine start the user session after a restart without unlocking the user screen.
The reason for that is that ...
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Remote desktop connection logs in after 2 minutes
We have a set of Windows 10 computers where we connect remotely via remote desktop connection. We have a single user that we use to log in and it's configured as administrator on these machines.
The ...
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Deleting a user login name from the start window in windows 10
When Logging in I accidentally started a new login. I never completed it but now when I login the second name appears in the list of login options. Now I must click on my login name to complete the ...
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Windows Hello login methods no longer working and Windows Hello set up interface wont start
I have a Dell XPS 15 9520 here running windows 11 pro (22H2). I had set up fingerprint login that worked previously, lately when I try to use it the login screen says that it is unavailable (I've only ...
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Windows Pin Keyboard does not work on particular user profile
My daughter's pin on Windows is not working to log in. When she tries to log in she can only enter numbers - that is to say the number keys on the keyboard work but none of the letter keys work.
When ...
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Remove a specific logon Windows screen
I'm trying, on Windows 10 Pro, to prevent this screen to appear.
This question is specifically about precisions about the answer How to totally remove the Windows 10 login screen?, thus this new ...
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Disable autologin in TTY consoles in Kali Linux live system (with persistence)
I have kali live 2023.4 installed on my usb stick (with persistence partition) and I want to disable autologin in TTY consoles. When I open TTY on my computer, it automatically logins as kali. On my ...
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Hide the welcome logon screen on Windows 10 Pro
A few weeks ago, I was able to prevent the "welcome logon screen" to be displayed on a Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (see the details in How to totally remove the Windows 10 login screen?):
It ...
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Print "incorrect login" only after password step + change "root" username
I'm on Centos 7, and I need to do 2 things:
By default, "incorrent login" prints right after login step, for example, when I enter non-existent login, but I need full authentification: ...
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Change the Policy in Windows 10 or Windows 11 that disable the PIN login option after multiple shutdowns?
I’m encountering an issue with Windows 10/11 where the PIN login option is disabled after multiple shutdowns. This situation often arises due to CPU overclocking with XTU, leading to frequent reboots ...
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Configure Windows Hello to allow Login only with PIN not fingerprint
In light of the recently discovered flaws with fingerprint readers, I want to configure Windows Hello to allow Login/Unlock of Locked Computer only with PIN and not using fingerprint. When logged in/...
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SSH config for remote servers using kerberos
I connect to my remote server using:
ssh -At [email protected] ssh -At [email protected]
The following only asks me for a password one time. I do not have any authentication file on my computer, ...
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Google - Verify your identity on new account
I have created a new Google account using an existing email (that has a custom domain). Upon my first login, I was greeted with the following page for supposed unusual activity:
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I have tried over 10 ...
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How to change user without closing applications running, when using RDP on a Windows machine?
The problem I have is that multiple users need to RDP to a machine to check the status of an application that is running. Normally, when users login/logout, the applications will stop and the user ...
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Intermittent ability to login to my router. Unplugging the WAN allows me, while connected to WAN does not
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Cannot log into my router: @ IP 192.168.1.1
As a result of this, I cannot log into my NAS either.
I have internet. PC to router is a problem.
I can do both (above) when I unplug the WAN (...
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"Organisation requires pin change" even after disconnecting organisation
I have been using the same PIN code for Windows 11 for a long time. Recently I connected my machine to a work-account. I tried to log in with my PIN code, but I got a message that I had to change my ...
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Is an Advapi Logon Process (Event 4624) Always Related to a Web-Based Logon Via an IIS Server?
I know searching through Event Viewer can be pointless, but I'm seeing a lot of these logons and don't have an IIS server.
They're exactly as posted here How to tell which service or task caused a ...
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Enable Fingerprint but still set Require Sign in to NEVER
Just installed Windows 10 Pro 22H2.
OK maybe this makes no sense what I am trying to do but...
Can I set up Windows Hello Fingerprint AND set "Require sign-in" to NEVER?
My question is ...
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Can't login to the router once the connection is established using telnet
I'm trying to login to the router using telnet. Connection is successfully established and I'm asked for the login but nothing happens afterwards. I enter the username and it seems like it just looped ...
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Locked myself out of my system...is there any way I can fix this?
So, long story short, I did this the other day:
1.) Run the command:
sudo nano /etc/pam.d/common-auth.
2.) Add a line above the first non-commented line and add the following code:
auth required ...
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Is it possible to setup password expirey for gnome display manager during login?
I want to setup password expirey which warns 3 days before hand and forces user to change password after 30 days. Is this possible for gnome display manager? I want to make it so that it changes the ...
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Can a linux command auto-login to a specific desktop environment session type
so a bit of context, i have my pc setup to start at TTY then when i want to go into a desktop environment i start the login manager.
# Upon install setting the TTY as default start state
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Avoid the user to click the Windows start button in the taskbar after login
After the user logs in on Windows 10, explorer.exe is loaded. The Windows Start button in the taskbar is visible and clickable.
Any script or executable ran at startup to hide the taskbar, does so too ...
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Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 automatically signing out of logged in websites
Just as the title is, when I am logged in to sites like Google or Microsoft, it will work for a few minutes before automatically being signed out of the site. I have tried clearing the cookies and ...
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Why don't websites say "incorrect password"?
When I try to log into a website & I input incorrect login details, why does it say "username or password is incorrect"? Why does it not specify which?
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Logon box not appearing after pressing a key or Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in
"This is not a "bluescreen" (BSOD), it's a "blue screen"."
I (which also means people at the company) have a problem that seems to have persisted through the years of ...
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Bash freezes after SSH login unless Ctrl+C is pressed immediately
I'm facing an issue where my Ubuntu bash freezes after an SSH login unless I press Ctrl+C immediately. It appears that something is loading in the background. This problem started occurring after I ...
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Can able to login to a local website from another machine
i installed a local website called FileCloud on my ubuntu_22.04.
The website can be accessible with http://127.0.0.1 , http://localhost and http://10.0.2.2
which could be my machine's ip.
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copy files from server share to C:\Temp and then run the batch file that is copied locally
I need a login script to copy the contents of a directory from a file share to the local computer, and then run a bat file that gets copied locally as part of that process.
if not exist "C:\Temp\&...
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Google services ask for the keychain password on system startup [duplicate]
Since I installed gvfs-goa and gvfs-google, every time I turn on my computer I am asked for the password to unlock the keychain.
How can I avoid being asked for my password each time I access the ...
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Any way to see in EventViewer if a Windows logon was made using password Vs. fingerprint?
I suspect someone logged on to my computer (windows 10) (this is someone I know who might have access to my password), I see so many logons that I can't be sure which were mine, but what I do know is ...
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Successful Disabled/Anonymous Guest Login. What is this?
TLDR: Windows Server logs shows successful login with a disabled Guest account. Can someone explain this activity?
In our SIEM, I saw the following event below from our Windows 2016 Server (not a DC).
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Ubuntu password no longer works after login
I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 on a laptop and something weird happened to my password. I can only use it to login when I select a user (the booting GUI) and after that, things like sudo or ...
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Windows 10 Auto user login after shutdown
My PC, which I keep ON for days, have a scheduled task to turn OFF (shutdown) a certain day of the week. It then turns on automatically after a few hours through BIOS settings. However, it stays on ...
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Website logs me in then immediately logs me out
I have an issue where I can log into a website that I have used all the time and then randomly it just stopped letting me stay logged in. You'd hit login, then immediately it will log me out. I tested ...
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How can I log in to Microsoft App Center if my email is "already associated with another provider"?
I received an invitation to log in Microsoft App Center but when I try to log in with my existing Google or Github account, I see the error displayed in the screenshot.
I tried also to log in from an ...
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Kali Linux Kex no longer recognizes my password
One day I wake up, I start my WSL kali-linux (by typing "kali" and "kex --esm" to start the remote desktop), The Remote Desktop decides that my password isn't correct anymore.
My ...
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