I recently changed my username in Windows 10 and I just discovered that all folders and files in my profile folder are now write-protected. I also can't remove the write-protection.
The profile folder is still named by the older username. Is there a way to fix this or do I have to change my username back?
Sure, had that user password or some kind of key? create a live usb with Hiren's boot, open NT Password and you can solve it, there are times that usually happens and with that tool, in the cases that have happened to me, it has worked.
Regards
PD: Download it from here, you will have to save it on a USB, also you have the steps: https://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/
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Im using cent os 6 for my work. For educational purposes I want to add user to the cent os by only editing configuration files.I know we can easly add user by useradd command and change their password using passwd command. But I need to use exactly above mentioned way. To do this first I need to understand what are the files I have to change
By searching I found that following files are responsible for handling user
/etc/passwd
/etc/group
/etc/shadow
/etc/gshadow
What I did is first I add the user using useradd command and then study the strings that commands created in above files. And then I try to replicate it with manually editing files using VI editor. After I replicate every line of string I make a directory for my new user in /home. the I reboot the VM and try to login as manually created user. I can log in without any problems but the terminal showing bash-4.1$ instead of my username. but when I use whoami terminal prints my username correctly.
My question are
Is there any other files do I need to modify to add user successfully?
By adding user manually what are the functionalities that user lost ?
How to create MD5 hashed password for manually created user ?
I know to you this is may be little bit odd. but I need to do this exactly this way. If this question is inappropriate please let me know without down voting
thanks
Those are the essentials, obviously you'll need to create a home directory for that user with proper permissions, as well as any additional user specific resources.
You might want to also read up on the Pluggable Authentication Module or PAM. This provides increased authentication functionality to Linux beyond passwd, group, shadow files.
Also check out the GETPWNAM() system call.
=D Enjoy the Posix!
Serverfault on password hash creation below.
REF: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81240/manually-generate-password-for-etc-shadow
i got a question concerning linux and svn.
I run ubuntu on a virutal box and actually I am not used to linux yet.
For researches I am connected to a svn-server, which I update often.
At the beginning I was asked if my password should be stored unecrypted. I choose to store the password but now I want to change it. I already googled a lot, but this didn't help me. It was often said to change to /etc/subversion/config but this directory doesn't exist, oly /subversion/ exists, but this folder is empty.
Can anybody tell me how I can set, that I always have to enter my password as soon as I do a svn up or svn commit? Please give a detailled description, because I am still used to Windows ;)
Thanks for help
Look in the $HOME/.subversion/auth folder, where $HOME is your home directory (i.e. /home/<username>). You should find a like like $HOME/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/<some_hex_string> which contains the stored credentials for your repository. Delete that file.
(To reset all your svn settings, you can just delete the $HOME/.subversion folder.)
I have a owncloud server and the owncloud desktop client.What I want to do is to be able to delete things server wise and have it automatically delete from the pc. The problem is that the owncloud client displays a warning message of "Remove All Files"? with the choices of Remove all files or to keep files when the files are deleted from the server. Is there a way to not have the prompt come up and automatically remove all files?
In the version 2.2.3 (maybe earlier), you can change the configuration file to disable the prompt.
See the code where the prompt is invoked and the code showing the configuration file property.
If you edit (on Windows): c:\Users\myuser\AppData\Owncloud\owncloud.cfg and add the following, under the [General] section, you will no longer get the prompt.
promptDeleteAllFiles=false
The short answer: You cannot change this currently.
The long answer: The dialog was added as a safe-guard because there were cases where you could lose all your files unintentionally, e.g. if your admin re-created your account and left it empty. The client would assume the files had gone and would replicate this (it could not know better), so it would replicate the data removal locally. The code is still there today just to be safe.
If you are fearless, you can patch Folder::slotAboutToRemoveAllFiles(). Alternatively, you could open a bug report so we can solve this for everyone. What is your motivation to be able to do this without a prompt?
PS: The sources can be found on GitHub. URL and build instructions at http://doc.owncloud.org/desktop/1.5/building.html.
I have a script that processes the files that someone drops into ownCloud and it will then move them to the final storage place. However, this prompt stops the client from syncing until I manually log in to acknowledge it... I guess I will learn how to patch this.. Dropbox doesn't do this. Google Drive doesn't do this. But since I can't use cloud services (compliance issues), I have to use this solution until I can build a new secure upload means.
Environment : Eclipse Indigo, Ubuntu 11.04, Subclipse 1.6
SVN Clients : Subclipse, RabbitVCS
I'm connecting via svn+ssh. My URL looks like :
svn+ssh://[MY NAME]#[MY DOMAIN]/[PATH]
I can connect to the repo just fine. The problem is that every time I try to communicate with the repo, it prompts me for a password. Really annoying!
I get the impression that SVN has the ability to cache passwords -- I've read that's what the ./subversion/auth folder is for. However, my ./subversion/auth folder contains four empty folders.
I've experienced this behavior with both Subclipse and RabbitVCS.
Is there any way to force SVN to cache my credentials?
You need to use Public Key Authentication with SSH:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys
It will enable you to used svn over ssh without entering a password every single time, with help of a common SSH agent.
Subversion itself caches credentials only to servers using HTTP/DAV.
Maybe this may help to someone. Check whether ~/.subversion folder is owned by wrong user, so it may be read-only to user who is using it.
sudo chown -R your_username:your_group ~/.subversion
My father died recently and I've inherited his Mac. I'd love to put it to use in my own life, but I don't want to wipe its brains out just so I can reconfigure it to use in my network, etc. His old files are historically important to me—I trust you can understand my desire to keep them.
I can log in as I had an account on the machine before he passed, but that's about it.
Sincere condolences.
Try this: Mac OS X - Resetting a Forgotten Account Password
The link shows a walk-through of starting up from the Mac OS X installation DVD and using its Reset Password functionality to reset the administrator account's password.
There's further information here: Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password
If you don't want to make any changes to the mac, a little known feature called Target Disk Mode might make it easier.
If open firmware password has not been set, you can try entering single user mode by pressing apple-s during boot. Then you should be able to do anything you want, since you will be root.
See this apple support document.
I recommend using this capability to make all your father's files readable by your normal user account, then backup all his files and do a fresh reinstall.
If your account is an administrator account. You can open up Terminal.app and type
sudo passwd root
You will be prompted to enter a new root password.
If you don't have administrator access, you can reset the root password using your osx installation cd. Instructions are here.
EDIT: Node's link is better.
Boot the computer with a BSD or Linux CD and mount the filesystem.
If the machine is running leopard or higher you can actually force
any mac to create a new administrator account by simply deleting one file.
Simply boot into single user mode, (hold command + s when booting up)
once in single user mode, mount the file system using mount -uw /
then input rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
restart the machine.
This works by removing the check .AppleSetupDone so it tricks the
mac into replaying the setup assistant on boot.
Else, you can do something very similar to older macs by again booting up into single user mode, except this time inputting the following (line by line)
mount -uw /
cd /private/var/db/netinfo
mv local.nidb local.old
rm ../.AppleSetupDone
exit
If you can access the files in question, then the first thing to do would be to back them up...
FWIW
assuming your account has admin privileges, boot the machine and enter your password; then use the Finder to navigate to his user folder (/Users/name-he-used-on-the-mac); his subfolders will have a little red locked symbol.
you can either copy/paste them in the finder (you will be prompted for your password), or
you can open terminal and ditto them:
sudo ditto <his files> <directory where you want the copies>
at which time you will be prompted for your password.