Questions that relate to an area (or home directory), in which a user can store files pertaining exclusively to that user's activities, which is protected from access by other users. Related questions includes public profile issues, authentication to system services and the ability to be granted authorization to access accounts.
Questions tagged [accounts]
108 questions
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How to add a guest account without a password?
Sometimes I have friends in my house that want use my computer. How can they use a guest account without typing a password?
vrcmr
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How do I manage multiple ubuntuone accounts?
I have 2 ubuntuone accounts. I am logged it to the first I created, and my ubuntu natty pc folders are synced with that account.
I want to switch my ubuntu pc to the second account, but I can't find the way. If I disconnect from the first account,…
Paolo
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Can't change account in Ubuntu One Control Center
My Ubuntu One Control Center on my computer uses one account. My Ubuntu One app on my android phone uses a different one. I want to change my account on my computer to the one that my phone uses but I can't figure out how.
MiB
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How to restrict total time usage for an account
Possible Duplicate:
How can I set computer usage time limits?
I've looked at a number of other threads but most of them talk about how to restrict the time of day an account can log in... What I'm looking for is a simple way to restrict the total…
Thomas K
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How can I remove the previous owner Adm account. So I can make changes to my P.C. Brought it from a pawn shop
Need to remove User. I bought this P.C from a pawn shop , and, it still had a Adm, user account attached. Therefore I can't make any changes to the P.C. Was hoping that you all could help me with that?
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS user accounts log-in - How?
I installed Ubuntu on a Lenovo Ideapad B590, i3-2328M @ 2.20, 6GB RAM, Samsung EVO 250GB SSD and replaced Windows with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64-bit).
My questions are:
How do I go about creating a log-in screen where another user can choose its…
BeeZee
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Make account delete itself on poweroff
I need a way to create an account that will delete itself when the system does a full poweroff, but not on a reboot or logout. It also needs to have a unique account name (not guest) and password.
Imtnt
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zApDtG guest account?
I'm using ubuntu 13.10
Where did guest account zApDtG with root privileges come from? I can't gather much information, as this guest account has root privileges and being a brand new user, I don't. Is there a default root account created in the…
user261350
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How can I remove online accounts in Ubuntu 17.04?
I want to remove Facebook and Google from online accounts. How can I do this in Ubuntu 17.04? Other posts refer to much older Ubuntu releases. System Settings no longer has a delete button.
rob grune
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Merging Accounts
I noticed that there are a few seperate ubuntu accounts like one and software center. I'm not sure if there is another one for singing into this, but will they ever merge all of the accounts?
Jacob C.
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Problems with my password
My problem is that I changed my username and computer name in ubuntu 12.04, when I restarted, the machine does not recognize my password, but it did recognize the new names user and computer.
When I started as guest session I get the name of (Pc) as…
Santi
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