The time to enter a valid password in sudo is prohibitively short [duplicate]
I'm having a bizarre issue right now where in terminal (any terminal app does this) when entering sudo foo the time to enter my password is only about 2 or 3 seconds, which makes it nearly impossible...
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View ArticleHow to make Ubuntu ask for password when mounting partitions in 24.04 Noble?
I have been using the following guideline (see link below) to isolate versions of Ubuntu on my rig by introducing a requirement for a password to access them (through FILES etc): How to make Ubuntu ask...
View ArticleProblem with installing and BitLocker
I have a new HP Envy x360 laptop that I want to put Ubuntu on. When I got through the installation, I told it to get rid of Windows, but the next instruction says to disable BitLocker. It should not be...
View ArticleHow to make firefox ask for master password only when trying to show passwords
I have set up a master password on firefox and the browser asks for it at unexpected time. Not every time in the start (so it isn't useful to "lock" the browser. Someone may auto-login to a website...
View ArticleDigitalOcean droplet root password not accepted for client, but works for...
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 droplet with PubkeyAuthentication set to yes and PermitRootLogin set to no. Since I created it, my pubkey has worked fine. For some unknown reason today it's not accepting my...
View Articlechsh always asking a password , and get `PAM: Authentication failure`
Today I tried to switch to another shell.First I tried fish, and used chsh -s fish to change fish to default. After some time I found it cannot use ~/.bashrc (&& needs to be replaced by and)....
View ArticleCan I SSH with key and then have a simple password for the sudo user?
So I have a server which I connect to with SSH and a key.I have disabled SSH password login on my normal user. When I use sudo, it's super annoying to having to copy and paste the complex password...
View ArticleUbuntu won't let me enter my password
When I look to update or install anything with sudo. It tells me 'sorry, try again' twice and then 'sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts' but I am not even given the opportunity input a...
View ArticleLogin keyring not being unlocked after login into the user from a password...
Context:Some time ago I modified the set timeout for user locking for wrong password input via modifing /etc/pam.d/common-auth.I have lock-screen set up at start-up, meaning it ask me for my password...
View ArticleSSH Permission denied (publickey) on Password login
I am getting a very strange behavior...I am running an Ubuntu 22.04 on a newly created oci instance (arm)I've just created the instance a few minutes ago, i did no changes and i try to setup Password...
View ArticleI'm trying to type when it gives me the sudo password pop-up
When it gives me the >>[sudo] password for nexboypopup, I try to type the password, but it says try again later, and it doesn't let me type at all. I even tried looking through old forum posts,...
View Articleno password for login user
I want to create user login or current user who does not need password. On login prompt, they can just give login id and password enter without password and login should happen. I used sudo su root...
View ArticleHow to access the data of an unencrypted Ubuntu installation on a internal...
Let's say that I have an unecrypted Ubuntu installation on an internal hard drive of a computer. There I am the only user using this computer with one username and a corresponding password. Is it...
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Howdy biometric login is causing a modal keyring authentication dialog to...
Before I begin, this is not a duplicate of keyring-did-not-get-unlocked-when-you-logged-into-your-computer because I have not enabled auto-loginAnd it is not a duplicate of...
View ArticleI can not enter in my profile
I use my password (picture), but it gets denied. i changed it few times, it didnt help. But when i use ctrl+alt+f3, and it asks me for login and password, everything is fine, but, obviously, with no...
View ArticleLost Password, Recovery will not work due to a Dependency
I am not a confident Ubuntu user but changed my Password due to unexplained usage issues. I copied carefully the suggested Ubuntu Password but it will not work neither will the previous one nor...
View ArticleHow do I configure no-password access to pkexec?
I recently did a clean install of 24.04. As I am the only regular user as well as the superuser, I've configured passwordless access to sudo via visudo. I'm trying to do the same thing for polkit, but...
View ArticleWhen opening /root/ it prompts me twice for my password
So when I click on /root/ to open and explore it, it asks me for my password (which is normal,) so I type my password and hit enter. It asks me a second time for my password. And this time when I type...
View ArticleFresh install of Ubuntu 24.04 Text Editor asking for password on every text...
I've got a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04. I copied all my documents from my old laptop onto a USB, and then pasted them all into /home/colin/... on my new laptop. For every single text or csv file, the...
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