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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How can I give my wife emergency access to logins, passwords, etc.?
I'm the digital guru in my household. My wife is good with email and forum websites, but she trusts me with all our important digital stuff — online banking and other things that require ...
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How do I ensure Git doesn't ask me for my GitHub username and password?
I am working with a repo on GitHub and everytime I try to push something, it asks for my GitHub username and password. I don't want it doing that.
I tried the instructions on setting your email in ...
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mysql how to fix Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
Before I screw up something, when I login using $ mysql -u root -p, and show databases:
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql ...
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Why is my SSH login slow?
I'm seeing delays in SSH Logins. Specifically, there are 2 spots where I see a range from instantaneous to multi-second delays.
Between issuing the ssh command and getting a login prompt and
between ...
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How do I enable Automatic Logon in Windows 7 when I'm on a domain?
When Windows 7 is joined to a domain the option to automatically login is no longer available in the advanced User Management console. Since I am running a small home domain because of SharePoint and ...
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Sharing the same `ssh-agent` among multiple login sessions
Is there a convenient way to ensure that all logins from a given user (ie me) use the same ssh-agent? I hacked out a script to make this work most of the time, but I suspected all along that there ...
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What is the default username and password for SonarQube?
What is the default username and password for a fresh installation of SonarQube? Or how do you create a user?
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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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How can I block the “Sign in with Google” prompt on websites? [duplicate]
On many websites that require login, those annoying Google login prompts appear:
There are several tutorials on the Internet on how to avoid this, for example, this one on How-To Geek, which suggest ...
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Show Windows 7 logon time?
On Windows 7 Ultimate, is there a way to see when I logged on into the current session?
I want to find out how long I have been at the PC / when I started it up.
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How to automount SMB shared network drives in Mac OS X Lion
In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) Apple has replaced good old SMB support. Now I can't auto connect to my shared (SMB) network drives. Workarounds? Or is this impossible? In OS X Snow Leopard, I could ...
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how do I see which user I am logged in as in MySQL?
I have multiple text console session open and log in as different users into different consoles. I forget after while which consoles belong to which user, it would be nice to not have to quit and log ...
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Automatically run a script when I log on to Windows
How can I automatically run a script when I log on to Windows?
I'd like to run something like this whenever I log into my computer:
echo %USERNAME% logged on at %DATE% %TIME% >> log.txt
A ...
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Login with Linux FTP username and password
What's the command for logging in with FTP all with one line?
ftp username:[email protected]
says:
Password required for username:password
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How to have num lock enabled by default on log on screen?
I'm using a PIN code to log on my computer. However, Num ⇩ is always turned off, even if on before shutting down my computer. This is quite annoying as I always have to retype my PIN.
I've tried the ...
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Is there a simpler way to log into a local account on a domain workstation?
Occasionally I need to log into a local machine account on a Windows workstation joined to our domain. The syntax for specifying a domain account looks like this:
DOMAINNAME\myusername
whereas the ...
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How to enter login information for a website from the linux command line
My internet connection is provided by the university. It is protected to a username/password combination.
This means when I start up my computer, I have to start a web browser and open an arbitrary ...
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How to get Windows 7 logon wallpaper to tile to other monitors?
In 2000/XP/Vista it was easy to set a wallpaper for the logon screen, either manually through tools like Logonstudio or simple registry changes by hand on prepared installation images or through ...
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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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loading local shell aliases to ssh session dynamicaly
When I log in to some machine using ssh I wish my aliases and functions are there. In other words, log in to some machine I wish I can use my command shortcuts.
I need it be dynamic, every time I'm ...
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Turn off Automatic login with Windows 7
I setup my Windows 7 to automatically log into my account at home. I have a password set so that I can access it remotely. It seems like this was a feature in control panel somewhere, but now I can'...
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Why do I need to enter a password for the Default Keyring to unlock?
When I log into Ubuntu, I am prompted every time to:
Enter Password for Default Keyring to Unlock
I want to avoid this step since I am the only person using this machine and I see no reason to have ...
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How do I prevent virt-manager from asking for the root password?
When starting virt-manager, it asks for the root password.
It looks like virt-manager causes the libvirtd daemon to run pkcheck with a couple of arguments, which then shows this authentication dialog....
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What is the Windows Security Button?
At my school, the Panasonic interactive "SmartBoard" show a different message on the Windows 7 login screen. Instead of:
Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to log on
It reads:
Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE ...
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Synology DSM - Can't log as root (but works with admin)
After some automatic updates (or being hacked?) I have many things broken and a huge problem to resolve them since I can't login as root anymore.
ssh admin: login success
su root: permission denied (...
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How to properly end a KDE session from shell without root privileges
I am accessing the machine (OpenSuse 11 with KDE) over NX.
I cannot use the Alt-Ctrl-Del shortcuts as it is captured by my system. The regular logoff button just ends the NX session without ending ...
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Why does a failed linux login take so long? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why would an incorrect password attempt take a lot longer to process than a correct one?
When you get the correct login credentials, you are logged in immediately. When you ...
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How to log out from skype app?
I have installed the Skype-App for Windows 8 and a friend logged in first with his account.
Now I want to log him out to log in myself with my account but there is no Logout option.
I tried to ...
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Displaying wallpaper when desktop is locked in Windows 7
is it possible to lock the desktop in Windows 7 and have it continue to display your desktop wallpaper rather than the default Win7 locked-workstation screen?
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Use GNU screen as login "shell"
What's the best way to have screen automatically run when you open a new shell, whether by login, xterm, or anything else?
I see the most common recommendation is to put exec screen in your regular ...
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Is it possible to remove the fade effect between login?
I'm basically asking this question:
When I press Win+L, the “Locked” screen (with the password prompt) appears immediately. That’s nice, but not terribly important: I’m probably leaving the ...
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Hide account from login screen but can be used in UAC
So I have a Windows 7 home machine with 2 user accounts. One is a standard user account and one is an administrator account. Now this is going to be put in the hands of a very low-tech user so I don'...
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I can't log in Chromium (I was a Chrome user before this, so should make another account or something)?
I click on profile icon at the top right-hand in chromium and enter my user and pass and click on "log in" button but the frame disappears and I'm not logged in yet, what should I do?
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How do I find which software is doing an SSH connection?
I use a key (not password) to ssh into a server, but my IP address is frequently banned by the server.
After looking into the server auth.log, I found that someone (or some software) is trying every ...
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Is there a default password of Kali Linux OS after first installation?
I installed Kali Linux OS on my hard disk and set nothing as username and password. Now at the time of login, it asks for localhost username and password. I tried root and toor as default but it didn’...
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How can I tell when I logged into Windows?
On UNIX I can tell when I logged in and out of my workstation with the last command. Is there a way to get the same information on my Windows workstation?
I notice that Cygwin has a last command, ...
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How to automatically enable numlock on Windows 10 logon
Upon cold boot up or even a restart, the num lock is always disabled in Windows 10. Is there a fix for this?
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How to end FTP session in Chrome, to log in with different credentials?
I've just opened an FTP site through Chrome which requires authentication, and I've logged in with some credentials.
Now I need to re-log in on that FTP with some different credentials. How can I ...
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Why is Windows "stuck" on the Welcome screen for so long?
I use Windows 7 with a laptop specifications processor core (Core i3), 2 GB DDR3 RAM, the remaining capacity on the system partition (25 GB).
I do not know why the "welcome screen" takes a ...
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How can I tell who is actively logged on (locally or remotely) a Windows 7 PC?
From my Windows 7 PC, I want to check to see who is “actively” logged on to another Windows 7 PC on my network, not who connected last. How can this be done?
Throughout the day several people will ...
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How do I stop Remote Desktop from prompting for username and password twice
When I user remote desktop to connect to a Window 7 Professional computer (using win7 pro RDP) it first prompts me for my password:
after successfully authenticating there, it connects to the ...
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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 my ...
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How to permanently block 'Sign in with Google' suggestions from websites? [duplicate]
Some websites pop-up a message suggesting Sign in to 'me' with Google:
Examples:
medium.com seems to do this once (the setting is stored in a cookie; when I remove that the pop-up appears again);
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Create a keyboard shortcut for fast user switching in Mac OS X
How do you create a keyboard shortcut that activates fast user switching (i.e. brings up the login window) in Mac OS X Snow Leopard?
I'm trying to emulate the Windows Start+L keyboard combination, ...
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How to get an alert when someone logged on my PC?
I wish to send myself an mail, a message or an alert when someone logged on my machine. Is that possible to configure on my Windows 7 machine?
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Script - How to check if a network path is available and then map it
I would like an screen saver / logon script that checks if a network path is available and then map it to a unit. If it is not available it disconnects/don't connect.
Network path is \192.168.1.1\...
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make linux server allow rsync/scp/sftp but not a terminal login
I'd like to configure a linux box (probably an Ubuntu server) so that I can setup users, so that it is possible to upload/download files via rsync/scp/sftp, but it should not be possible to ssh to the ...
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How can you find out the currently logged in user in the OS X GUI?
Trying to find out if a particular user is logged into the machine, specifically the user using the graphical user interface.
Is this possible via command line?
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Change keyboard layout while entering start-up password
I installed Windows 7 with the QWERTY keyboard layout, but have recently started using DVORAK layout so I changed it from Control Panel -> Regional and Language Settings and it set DVORAK to default ...
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Recover Windows 7 password of admin account with auto-logon enabled
I have a Windows 7 installation with just one (admin) account (guest is disabled).
It is set to auto-login so I can get in without any problems and I can also 'right click' -> 'run as administrator' ...
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