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I forgot my password
Using recovery mode:(using live usb/cd)
I assume you are the only user and the administrator of your system.
To change password, hold the shift key while booting live usb/cd. If that doesn't work, ...
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Why Can't I Log In to Gmail with Geary or Mail?
The security standard Google is talking about is called OAuth. It's a modern technology to authenticate a user. As the Wikipedia article states:
Google supports OAuth 2.0 as the recommended ...
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Why Can't I Log In to Gmail with Geary or Mail?
"Doesn't meet modern security standards" is Google code talk for not an in-house developed application. By default, Google locks out most third party clients from IMAP access, but you can change that ...
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Multiple password prompts on resume from sleep: "Authentication is required to refresh system sources"
Update: Should be fixed in the AppCenter 1.2 update, but try the following if it persists:
I haven't had this issue since I disabled the AppCenter from running in the background.
To kill AppCenter ...
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Multiple password prompts on resume from sleep: "Authentication is required to refresh system sources"
Its a bug, already reported:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/appcenter/+bug/1617687
Im also affected, hope it will get fixed soon.
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Is there a pantheon-integrated encryption utility?
Use Gnome Encfs Manager. It's not an official elementary app, and it doesn't work from within Files, but it's worked really well for me. You can have the program launch at startup, or you can just ...
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How can I sign in with my fingerprint on Elementary OS 6 Odin?
The Elementary OS greeter has support for fprintd via PAM.
First, install the required packages:
sudo apt install libpam-fprintd
Next, start fprintd if it's not yet started:
sudo systemctl start ...
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New important security and hardware support update
There is no need for these changes to be made within Freya, as the update is being delivered via the update manager. You should upgrade there, or the correct way to upgrade to the Xenial Hardware ...
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How can i remove and prevent a trojan on freya?
Are you running wine? If so, try clearing out your virtual C drive. If you have one, it's incredibly unlikely it's anything but a Windows virus hijacking a wine installation. Linux viruses are ...
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Multiple password prompts on resume from sleep: "Authentication is required to refresh system sources"
Removing the App Center works for me.
sudo apt purge appcenter
You can always reinstall it later; after the problems are addressed maybe :).
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Is there a pantheon-integrated encryption utility?
Install seahorse and seahorse-contracts.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily
sudo apt-get install seahorse seahorse-contracts
I recommend you remove the daily repo after installation to ...
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Will the Preferences URL Specification pose a security threat?
I have a strong feeling that this question comes from confusion about what the URL scheme is.
The Preferences URL specification is only a way to open settings applications to the correct location. It ...
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How can I add / renew CA cert's which pantheon-files is using?
Get the CA which is missing. In my case:go to lets encrypt web site (or any other missing CA cert site). Copy the CA in PEM format (the format that has ----BEGIN CERTIFICATE---- in it) into /usr/local/...
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I forgot my password
Using live USB/CD : (using recovery mode)
Boot from live usb/cd and open terminal.
Use gparted or fdisk -l to identify elementary OS partition from the list.
The partition is just something like /...
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Why is there a delay when I enter my password incorrectly?
Short answer:
To reduce the rate of login attempt
To prevent quick brute forcing of passwords.
This makes it take longer to guess passwords.
Greatly increase security
Comprehensive:
It's actually ...
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Two times password required for booting
This is expected behavior. If you have enabled disk encryption, you'll need to enter your password to unlock the disk or the computer won't be able to boot.
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Is it possible to disable password
The simplest way is to go into System Settings and User Accounts and set their account to log in automatically. Then go into Security & Privacy and uncheck "Lock on Sleep" and "Lock after screen ...
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System is unlocked on power up
If you go to System Settings -> User Accounts, and click your account, you'll see the option Log In automatically. Make sure it is disabled.
NOTE: You'll need to click the button in order to make ...
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How safe is elementary OS
This question isn't totally fully answerable. Security is complicated and it largely depends on you, the user. Unsafe behavior, specifically you willingly giving away admin privileges, is the biggest ...
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What is the password to update the previous elementary to Loki?
Primeiro, a password deve ser a de um utilizador root/administrador.
Segundo, a única forma de atualizar o Freya para o Loki é reinstalando o sistema. Alem disso, é impossível uma atualização ...
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Did I install Firefox right and safely?
You actually did install Firefox the safe way inside the OS. However, you used the command line instead of a graphical frontend. So no worries, there is nothing wrong with your Firefox installation, ...
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I want to disable the crypto password when I switch on my laptop
It requires some effort to do it. A description of how to do it for Ubuntu can be found here. I think the steps are identical to elementary OS. The fastest way is most likely to backup your files and ...
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How to get username or password on elementary Os?
You can just hold down right-shift while booting, and select the second line "elementary OS … (recovery mode)" from the menu. After the boot, you can select "Drop to a root shell prompt" from the menu....
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On Juno, updates authentication dialog crashes on loop
On my Juno system:
→ ls -l /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 14328 gen 15 14:18 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
→ file /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-...
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How do I get a vulnerability patch for sudo?
elementary OS Juno is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Any system update to core Ubuntu will have affect on elementary OS too. It means when Ubuntu 18.04 has been patched with latest sudo, it will be on ...
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After change Admin-PW I can't log in anymore
The screen shakes if the password is not O.k.
So it is almost sure that you don't type the good password. This might be a typo or you might not have the same keyboard setting (e.g., German vs. US ...
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Forgot passphrase of an encrypted disk
At this point if you don't have really done any kind of customization, you might just reinstall the OS without the encryption.
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Unable to boot elementary OS after new important security and hardware support update
Finally i have to do a fresh install. don't know what will happen when i upgrade to the Loki. I know this is not the best solution. but i mark this as "accepted". if anyone know how to ignore ...
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How to change password of /home folder encrypting?
Right. There is a bug (filed here) that changing your password while your encrypted home directory is mounted doesn't also change the encryption password of that encrypted directory. (It's possible ...
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Freya security repositories turns to debian jessie
Click on "Applications" in the top-right corners and type "Language", this find the "Language & Region" settings. Open this and it will allow selecting French language in the left panel. This may ...
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