Questions tagged [user]
User accounts allow multiple users to work at one multi-user system. They are identified by a username. Multiple accounts allow for adjustment of access to system files, e.g. a the special account of the superuser for system administration can make unrestricted system-wide changes. An account with reduced privileges is therefore recommended for the day-to-day use of system to prevent unintentional changes (see also su and sudo).
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How to create a user with "userconf.txt" but disable auto-login
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I'm trying to bootstrap Raspberry Pi's by just putting configuration to the "boot"-volume.
My workflow looks like this:
Flash SD-card with Raspberry Pi OS Lite
copy these files to &...
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How to give Ownership to Pi from root to Mount_Folder
Here is my workflow and the issues I want to fix.
First I mount the windows shared folder on Raspberry Pi. But in order to use that, I have to mount using sudo.
sudo mount.cifs //<hostname or IP ...
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Trying to kill all processes, but new processes keep spawning
I'm trying to rename the default pi username after getting a new raspberry pi 4. I am completely new to Linux, so my knowledge of the matter is small. From what I've discovered, one way to rename pi ...
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Is it possible to have separate SSH keys for separate users
So let's say I have 2 accounts, pi and cloud. I want to be able to let people access the cloud account(which doesn't have sudo permissions) but I don't want them to access the pi account(which has ...
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Wrong password creating on first boot (cloud-init) (Ubuntu 20.04 server, RPI 4)
I try create preinstalled user for Ubuntu 20.04. For this i add some entries in accordance with official docs, to /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg (config for cloud-init )
Old:
users:
- default
My:
users:
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renaming default user in Raspbian PC - cannot kill 'pi' user related processes
I am trying to rename default user 'pi' to something else, and I am failing miserably.
Raspbian is based on Debian, so I assumed that it behaves as Debian, am I wrong?
What I tried?
I did normal route,...
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Which user is used to authenticate with the NFS server when mounting in fstab?
I'm trying to wrap my head around connecting my Pi2B to a NAS using NFS. In this answer, @Ingo wrote.
As customary then you mount to nfs shares with entries in
/etc/fstab. This line in your /etc/...
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No HDMI audio when logged in as a new user
Sound over HDMI works fine when I login as the default user pi.
I created a new user named for example user1
If I login as this user, no sound plays through hdmi.
I then added this user to most groups ...
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nobody user running demon
My raspberry pi has been hacked and as result my samba files have been encrypted by the user nobody. There is a thy demon that keep running in my pi by the user nobody.
I have been searching ...
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Raspberry pi locking mechanism is insecure by default
I've followed a tutorial that lets me lock my Raspberry pi. Though I do not know which one it was I assume it was this one.
However when I lock it I could just press Crtl+Alt+F7 to get right back into ...
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adduser command does not create home directories [closed]
i ran sudo adduser dummyuser and followed the prompts to create the password etc.
After logging in to the dummyuser account, it does not create any of the home sub-directories (such as Documents, ...
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Allow non-root user to set system time
I am using Raspbian Buster on an Raspberry Pi 4. I would like to give permissions to a non-root user to be able to set the time with /bin/date -s. The user is going to be used to run a python script ...
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SFTP Match multiple Users
I was trying to configure SFTP to a list of users, so I thought of creating a few blocks of "Match User" at "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" file.
Something like this:
# User A, B
Match User usera,userb
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Change UID and GID of default user pi
In my network environment I already have a user with the same UID (user id) and GID (group id) than the default user pi on Raspbian. This conflicts with user rights on my network, so I have to change ...
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How can you share an individual flow in node-red?
I have a Raspberry Pi with a lot of Node-Red flows running. I would like another person (with a separate account) to be able to log in and have access to a specific flow, but I would not like them to ...
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Different user login (same 'pi' username) depending on method
I'm just using putty and SSH'ing into a Raspberry Pi
If I log in using the hostname "pi@raspberrypi" + password
then I get one filesystem/folders.
If I determine the Pi IP address using ifconfig,...
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Need different default keyboard settings for different users
I set up Raspberry Pi 4 workstations with Raspbian Buster for a school library and want to use a different keyboard setting for the root account.
Now it seems to me that I can only change the ...
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Failed to start permit user sessions
When my RP boots, I get several errors about some services failing.
Most notably 'permit user sessions'.
Which means I can not log in to the device, and I can not make changes to it.
I can of course ...
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Create new users and put them in a group with low privilege
I try to create new users and put them in a group with low privilege. I want them to only have access to their home (not to other folders).
I tried useradd but the new user has access to all folders.
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How to access bluetooth controller on `/dev/input/js0` as user/group?
I'm working on an application that is reading an XBox controller connected via bluetooth. After configuring it (see https://pimylifeup.com/xbox-controllers-raspberry-pi/), I noticed that only root has ...
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Changing username without affecting SSH certificate login
I have secured my SSH logins with certificate authorisation and I want to change my username, so I did. When I did this, I was denied access.
Is there a way to change username without affecting the ...
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Is there any default user login, other than usr: pi, pwd: raspberry?
The reason I am asking is because I have setup my Raspberry Pi 3 b+ to run a specific script on boot, the only issue is this is an infinite loop and prints every time - so I cannot enter any commands! ...
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New user, Pi keeps asking for password
I made a new user on my Raspberry Pi for myself and it keeps asking for my password when I do things like sudo apt-get install. How do I make it an administrator?
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GPIO.add_event_detect requires root
I am trying to run a program using GPIO from a normal user. I checked that /dev/gpiomem has the correct permission (root:gpio 0660) and that my user is member of group gpio.
The following works ...
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Where is Raspberry Pi "Logout after inactivity" configuration
I recently downloaded and installed a standard Raspbian OS environment on my Pi. On my Ubuntu Laptop, "Logout after inactivity" is a standard setting, which I like a lot.
This is not active on my Pi, ...
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How to allow non-root access to /dev/tty7
I have problems running fbi without sudo. As user pi running
fbi -noverbose -nocomments -T 7 -1 -t 10 test.jpg
or
fbi -noverbose -nocomments -T 1 -1 -t 10 test.jpg
I get an error /dev/tty7: ...
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Changing pi user password - reverts to default following reboot
I have a Raspberry Pi running Jessie that I'm using as a notification gateway.
If I SSH to it and change the user pi password, it appears to take and when I open a separate SSH session to it it ...
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Enable VNC and SSH for user other than `pi`?
New to Pi and I am trying to configure my Pi3. I would like to keep the user pi intact with the factory password, but still be able to use VNC and SSH without getting the security error message.
I ...
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User and location line disappeared at new user
When you log in with the standard pi user in commandline, you see like pi@hostname and after that the location path you're in. But when I create a new user and log in into that, that line disappears......
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I deleted the user pi but it still appears in the boot screen
Following the suggestions to secure my raspberrypi from this article I:
created a new user
changed its password
disabled the default pi user with sudo passwd --lock pi
deleted the user pi with sudo ...
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Can't delete pi user on Raspbian
I have made a new Raspbian installation. All good.
I wanted to delete pi user and make another user with same privileges (lets say gordon).
So first I enabled direct ssh access to user root by doing ...
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Installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 'classic', no .config directory for users
I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 'classic' on my Pi 3, and am using the CLI which is a struggle but bearable. I've created a user, and subsequent instructions involve configuring a startup daemon in ...
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How do I grant sudo privileges to an existing user?
I am using vnc viewer on Windows 10.
user: pi
I am lost, please help.
What I Have Tried:
*sudo chmod 777 **
also ..
sudo nano /etc/sudoers
adding the following line just like "root ALL=(ALL:...
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new directories are owned by non existent user 10001
I am currently trying to setup my raspberry pi as a webserver that serves files from a cifs share.
The problem I run into is that my while using ssh, my pi creates all new files/folder with a non ...
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Cannot run my script from rc.local file as a different user
I have a script which runs my program and I would like to run it automatically when my pi has booted. The script is rather simple as:
#!/bin/sh -e
sleep 2
cd /home/pi/
/home/pi/monitor
I have added ...
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New user cannot login
I created a new user. Added all the groups that the "pi" user belonged to.
When I try to login with that user, it just keeps recycling back to the login.
If I login with the user "pi", I can su to ...
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How to configure RealVNC server to allow connection to other users than pi
I have a Raspberry 2 Model B with raspbian jessie and I have realvnc-server installed.
I've created a new user in raspbian and when I try to connect remotely via VNC viewer with the new user, I get an ...
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What is the purpose of group "staff"?
What is the purpose of group "staff"? Interestingly, note that the set user or group ID on execution (s) bit is set.
michael@greenbeanDev:~ $ ls -l /usr
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 28672 May ...
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Change username using a script [closed]
I'm working on an industrial application for the Pi, and for that we need to, of course, change the username. I don't want to do this manually everytime, so I want to use a script. So far I have ...
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Chown files of mounted raspbian image to a user that isn't on host system
I have an init script that mkdir -p raspi-os-image/home/pi/.ssh and adds a SSH key to authorized_keys inside. The problem is, when doing this it needs to be done as root and then once the system is ...
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User and password
I just installed Raspian Jessie lite date 4-10-17. All articles state the username and password are "pi" and "rasberry". These do not work. What is the correct user and password?
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I have just returned to my Raspberry Pi after a year and can't remember my login
After sitting in the depths of my project desk for a year or so, a Raspberry Pi model B turned up that has data I want to save. It boots up but I deleted the pi user for security reasons and can't ...
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Autologin & VNCSERVER issues
Sorry for the poor title but I couldn't find a better one for my issue as I don't know what's going on.
Recently I write (for purpose that are not relevant now) a fresh Raspbian image from November ...
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Adding new user to sudoers file breaks sudo completely / how to add a new user with the same privileges as pi
I switched from the arch Linux image to the latest Debian Jessie lite 2017-01-11 image and added a new user as root.
# adduser sampletext
Then I added on the sudoers-file a new line with:
sampletext ...
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Set permissions and group for /dev/gpiomem permanently [duplicate]
I need to allow my user access to the GPIO pins and found following solution.
Access GPIO pins without root. No access to /dev/mem. Try running as root!
This works perfectly. All I need to do is ...
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Why do I have 3 different pi users?
raspberry pi 3 with raspbian, ssh via macOS
Hi,
I just noticed something awkward. When I tried to login via ssh on my pi, I noticed that I couldn't log in with the password I recently changed with ...
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launching deluge with different user creditential
i want to launch deluge from a different user which has ther permission to write to specific folder where deluge will download.
so i su to that username media then run this from terminal /usr/share/...
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restricted shell (rsh) on raspbian
I want to run the restricted shell (rsh) on the raspberry pi as the default shell for a user, but I can't seem to find it.
my code is:
sudo su
adduser restricteduser
cd ~restricteduser
chmod ...
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Avoid user change without public key
I set public key authentication on my rpi and disabled password login in the sshd_config file. There are two users: userA and userB, while userA is my main user. In addition there are two computers (...
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auto-mount USBDrives (vfat) for users other than pi
When a USB drive (vfat) is connected, the system automatically mounts it on /media/pi/DriveName with permissions set for user pi. Thus each time I need to change something in the drive, I need sudo ...
