I have turned off the password requirement for my Ubuntu 20.04, but whenever I suspend my device and turn it on again, I am still asked for a password. How can I turn this option off in Ubuntu 20.04?
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How can I disable password request after suspend in Ubuntu 18.04? I have already turned off the screen lock but that didn't fix it.  I am new Ubuntu user. There seems to be lots of information on how to fix this in older versions.
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I find that if I execute something using sudo that then if I execute something else soon after also using sudo, that it does not prompt me for my password, and although this can be inconvenient in some situations, it is a security risk in others, and a hassle to keep on coming back and executing the command to make it prompt your for the password on the next go. So I was wondering if and how I could get it to prompt me every time, or for it to at least only remember my password for a very short amount of time?
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How to disable the keyring for SSH and GPG ?  I would like to keep the keyring for the wifi and other stuff. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
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I am having a problem where when I try to run say GParted, when I am prompted for a password, it says "Incorrect Password"  But when I enter the same password using terminal sudo gparted for example, it works. Why is that?  UPDATE  I noticed that theres a difference between using sudo and gksu. The later will fail with incorrect password ...
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It's tedious to type my password every time I start my Windows 10 VM, especially since you can't paste a password into the box. I want to set up automatic login.  Following the instructions  I tried to disable the "Users must enter a user name and password" option in netplwiz. But the option isn't there! It should be above the "users for this computer" list. Is there a setting I need to change to allow me to change the setting?
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Currently, for all my commands that require root access, I have to type them out on a command line.  I would like for the GUI to prompt me to key in my password, when sudo is required, instead of having to type out the commands from command line.  Is there any way to enable this? Previously one version of Ubuntu desktop had this feature out of the box.  This version of Ubuntu (that I am now running) I upgraded from a server installation.  I will add, my user account is already added to sudo group. Thus I can run commands such as sudo gedit or sudo apt-get but I'm not able to install software in the Ubuntu Software Center.
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I am trying to prevent the system to always ask for the password when it wakes up from sleep.    I have a MacbookPro with Yosemite 10.10.5.  User has admin rights and password different than the iCloud one.  FileVault is off.   The System Preferences > Security and Privacy > "Require password [5 seconds] after sleep or screen saver begins" is disabled and there's no way to enable it.   If I execute defaults read com.apple.screensaver i get:  {     askForPassword = 0; }   If I execute defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver askForPasswordDelay -int 3600 the defaults don't change...
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I used to have a password prompt but then I, from somewhere in User Accounts, unchecked "Require a password for login." Now, I want Ubuntu to prompt for a password again at login screen, mainly because I have to manually unlock the login keyring whenever I access Dash or other services, which is a pain at best.  I also searched another question, namely . It was of no help because the OP's question is "I have a password but Ubuntu doesn't ask for it."  Also, the two answers provided there don't solve my problem at all. They discuss completely other things.  Is there no simple mechanism? Because intuitively, if there's a checkbox option to bypass password requirement, there should be an equally hassle-free facility to again require the password.
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I am horribly impatient and can't stand the (for me subjectively long) delay of around 2 seconds after entering an incorrect password in the login screen or also as sudo password, before I can retry typing it correctly.  Is there a way to modify the delay and reduce it to around half a second or turn it completely off, both for sudo and the login screen?   The optimal solution would include a longer delay after maybe 3 or 5 incorrect passwords, to still prevent brute-forcing.  PS: I am currently using vanilla Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity Desktop and lightdm.
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I have installed Ubuntu using the GUI, giving myself a password and everything. I do not intricately remember the process. However, what worries me is that I don't know the following password:  $ su Password: &lt;the only password I've ever created on this machine&gt; su: Authentication failure   I just don't know what to do. I'm not in trouble, but I just want to know what's going on here. I can also lock myself out of directories:  starkers@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ mkdir foobs starkers@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo chmod 777 -R foobs sudo: /var/lib/sudo writable by non-owner (040777), should be mode 0700 [sudo] password for starkers: &lt;the only password I've ever created on this machine&gt;  starkers@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ cd foobs bash: cd: foobs: Permission denied   I'm just a bit confused. How can I lock myself out like this? I think sudo is the key command here. But I'm making the foobs file as open as it can possibly be via the chmod, so why does it lock me out?
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When I try to shutdown the computer from a command line or terminal I must have root privileges:  amy@amy:~$ shutdown now shutdown: Need to be root   and  amy@amy:~$ halt halt: Need to be root   but when shutting down using the graphical user interface, i.e. shutdown button, or the hardware shutdown button, I'm not asked for the password to do so. What does that shutdown for the graphical interface, and why it doesn't need the password or root privileges?   I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 Natty.
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I added restrictions to my iPad and I forgot the passcode for them, now what? Is there a way to remove it without resetting the device?
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Whenever I issue command sudo apt-get install ** it does not ask for password, not in my admin user too.  How to make it prompt for password?  My sudoer :  ubuntu:~$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of # directly modifying this file. # # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # Defaults    env_reset Defaults    secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"  # Host alias specification  # User alias specification  # Cmnd alias specification  # User privilege specification root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL  # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL  # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command %sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL  # See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:  #includedir /etc/sudoers.d ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
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I've been reading . Apparently I would gain root access if I hold down enter (somewhere) for 70 seconds. I tried it on a password prompt but it gave me like 3 attempts and stopped. I tried it on a tty but it didn't work also. Am I not vulnerable or am I doing it wrong?
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I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 and afterwards, I accidentally set the administrator account password to empty/null. This gave me problems when trying to do administrative tasks in the GUI, so after reading up on askubuntu I used the passwd command to set the password for the account anew.  However, at the login screen when clicking on the account, I'm not asked to enter the password; but, instead, I log in directly as if there is no password set for the account.  When doing administrative tasks in the GUI, I will be asked for a password.  What do I do to be asked for the password at login time?  I did already try, several times, in the User Account settings window to set a new password for the account. That is, in the settings window it does not say "login without a password" for my account and it shows that there is a password set for the account.
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I have upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04 and now I have a problem in logging in after locking the screen: it says the password is incorrect even though I provide the valid password. I found a temporary solution by switching users and logging in again with the same user.
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My girlfriend forgot the password for her MacBook (don't ask), so I reset it using the Utilities.  But as you may be aware, this doesn't reset the Keychain password. Her MacBook is now virtually unusable due to Keychain demands continuously provoking a request for the Keychain password.  There are lots of other people asking this around the web and they're usually pointed towards this , which doesn't apply in our situation because the support advice involves entering the old password.  We don't know the old password.  Is it possible to reset Keychain without knowing the old password? We're not bothered about what's in there and what will be lost, we just want the continuous password prompts to go away.