I'm trying to create a local user on a new Ubuntu box. I'm unable to change the password, and I keep getting the error below. The user gets added to the shadow file, but I can't get it to set a password. How can this be fixed?
admin@theserver:~$ sudo useradd jamz
[sudo] password for admin:
admin@theserver:~$ sudo passwd jamz
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged
admin@theserver:~$
Recently I changed a friend's OS from a really virus filled windows 7 to Ubuntu ..but kept changing os's because lsusb wouldn't detect the camera.But after coming back to windows, the camera wasn't detected, though I must point out the device driver for the camera was never found.
The Sony 'technician' told me that that since the dev-manager of windows 7 couldn't detect the camera , irregardless of whether the device driver was installed, the software change must have damaged the hardware.
I was wondering if there is any truth to it.
What options are available to load balance web service traffic on Linux with the ability to add or remove servers from the server pool without restarting the load balancer?
This post:
http://serverfault.com/questions/71437/mod-proxy-change-without-restart
looks like a very promising way to switch between two servers, but I don't know enough about mod_proxy and mod_rewrite to understand how/if I can use an external file to specify the BalancerMember entries for a section.
Are there other open source load balancers that support reconfiguration without restart?
I would like to be able to change the default CSS used by chrome, such as removing the underlines for links, etc. However, I cannot find the default CSS file used by Chrome. Does anyone know where it is?
I suppose that my main Linux user account password serves as my SSH password as well. Is there a way I can modify this? As it turns out, I'd like to have a REALLY secure SSH password for obvious reasons, but a less secure local password, as it makes typing in passwords a heck of a lot easier on a machine. Is there a way I can change my account password in SSH without changing my Linux user password?
My laptop (Acer Aspire 6930) has a hotkey to open the web browser. However, I just got Firefox and I was wondering how I can change the hotkey so that it opens Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.
I already contacted Acer...they told me to phone them (at cost), which I would rather avoid since it's such a trivial matter.
An old junk mail filter program I used to use created a junk email folder. When I moved from Outlook 2003 to 2007, Outlook created a new folder called Junk Email1. Now, after our move to a new Exchange server, I now have a "Junk Email" folder and the existing "Junk Email1" folder. Is there a way to change the default Outlook Junk Email folder back to "Junk Email"?
I have installed MAMP on OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and I want to change the default path for PHP.
I tried both of the answers on this question, and on this question, and in this thread but when I'm trying which php in Terminal I still get /usr/bin/php.
I'm starting to get the impression that I'm doing something profoundly wrong, so any idea about what that might be, will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I am trying to change the task bar color of my WIndows 7 to black.. something similar to Vista. Is it possible without installing any 3rd party app? Many thanks!!
I'm currently working in Spain for the week and am having to setup IIS on Windows Server 2003. However the box we've been given is in Spanish which makes it very hard for me to understand.
Is it possible to actually change the language in Server 2003?
I just bought a new macbook pro 15'. This is my first mac. I really hate the Apple font in dreamweaver or when I'm doing any kind of coding. I can't read it. I should buy glasses but in the mean time is there any way to change the font and font size of dreamweaver? Thanks.
Simple to explain: possibly not so simple to do.
In Gimp, I have a green button GIF image: it shades from dark green to light green, against a transparent background.
I would like to change it to blue, and keep the shading, so it shades from dark blue to light blue.
Anyone know how I can do this? Can't find an explanation by Googling!
Thanks.
one of my keyboard keys is dead (< ) and I'd like to change the windows/super key behavior, so I can use it to type < and .
is this possible? I'm on ubuntu 9.04 with gnome, I read some info about setxkbmap and xmodmap but I don't know where to start.
thanks
We are migrating some servers, and we need tp change our Munin server. Most of the Munin nodes are not changed, and we would want to keep track of the historical data, if possible.
I can set up a new Munin server, but I like to know if it's possible to transfer the old data to the new server, and how to do it.
Is there a way to change password to value same as the previous password?
I know this is a security flaw, but would like to know however.
when I try this:
[mrbean@wwwserver ~]$ passwd
Changing password for user mrbean.
Changing password for mrbean
(current) UNIX password:
New UNIX password: -- here i typed same password
BAD PASSWORD: is too similar to the old one.
I would like to customize the name of the tab in Tilda (I guess that it doesn't change anything from the Gnome-terminal's behavior), but I can't find the exact sequence ...
so far, I figured out that Bash does it when displaying my PS1 prompt:
echo $PS1
\[\e]0;HELLO\a\]\[\033[01;32m\]\u\[\033[00m\]@\[\033[1;35m\]\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\[\033[00m\]
I guess that \[\e]0;HELLO\a\] is responsible for the title to be set to 'HELLO',
but when I start
echo -ne "\[\e]0;HELLO WORLD\a\]"
only writes '[]'
what's wrong with my command ?
I have apache installed on my ubuntu machine. you can access the server from other machines with http://linux-server The local path on the machine is /var/www I have installed vsftpd on the machine as well so I can ftp to the server from another machine with ftp://linux-server however it takes me to /home/myUserName I want the ftp to take me to the same place as the http. So how can I change the FTP path?
Thanks!
I want to change Windows 7's boot screen. Is there any way?
Edit: I'm not talking about the logon screen. I'm talking about the screen which you see before the Welcome screen:
I'd like to change the keyboard mapping from command-line (Terminal) in Mac OS X Lion (10.7).
I can manually set it (System Preferences - Language & Text - Input Sources), and there's a nice option that lets me use different input sources for different documents, but I'd like to bind it to a key under zsh to easily swap between Qwerty and Dvorak layouts (I'm learning Dvorak, and having the option to switch easily would be sensational).