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Sendmail: external message to “username” goes to root only
I use Sendmail and Dovecot.
I'm trying to send mail from external mail accounts to a username@domain.com on my dedicated server. The user is added with password and its /home/user directory. But only ...
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PATH environmental variable has changed suddenly for root user
Recently one of my Gentoo linux servers, which has been working happily for quite a few years suddenly stopped responding to BASH commands that I commonly issue it. Very basic commands such as ...
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How do I manually perform a password check using AIXpert?
One of the AIXpert tools is to perform a check of the root password against a dictionary (usually /etc/security/aixpert/dictionary/English). If I want to run this check manually, how would I do it?
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how to deny “sudo su”
I have several servers where some users require to be sudoers to work. The problem is that when sudoers can run the command sudo su and login as user root. It seems very risky to run that command.
I ...
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Can ApacheDS LDAP change root user name?
ApacheDS 1.5 has the following account by default.
Bind dn or user: uid=admin,ou=system
Bind password: secret
i would like to change it to the following to avoid making changes in my code
Bind dn ...
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SSH VPN tunnel without having to enable root
ive been trying to setup a VPN SSH tunnel and ive had success executing
ssh -Nv -w 0:0 root@192.168.2.2 -p 50
however what i am wondering is, can i do the tunneling without having root unlocked
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Access denied for root user
my ssh has started to refuse users from out of the blue. I started to connect via Putty as root, me and other users.
login as: root
root@31.XX.XX.XXX's password:
Access denied
What could be wrong? ...
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SSH hosts.deny and hosts.allow
I have this content in hosts.deny (with a new line at the end):
#
# hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
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SFTP Access Restricted with new Sudo Root User
So in attempts to secure my server a bit, I created a new user with su - root access and denied root login. Now I can't SFTP any files on my server through Filezilla with this user. These are the ...
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What's the best solution to manage root password of thousands servers
I'm a system administrator. In the production environment I need to manage thousands of servers. My colleagues and I uses a central manage server and distribute its public key through other servers. ...
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Remotely use root over ssh for unison
I'm a little confused on how to run unison to sync files with group and owner attributes on an ubuntu system, as you need to be root. But I need to do this remotely and automated. I know I can set up ...
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How to give ownership to root without being root ? (needed for Apache)
I've got a PHP script that creates a folder on my server.
This folder is supposed to be accessed via Apache, and users can view it online.
Now if I create this folder while being root, everything ...
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Apache/PHP root exploit
Because of insecure handling of uploaded files, an attacker was able to run php code on my server (CentOS 5.4) That issue has been fixed, but while he was connected he appears to have modified a file ...
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Error on plesk after compiling a php extension on MediaTemple dv
I was trying to install the php pecl uploadprogress extension on my dv server last night and now when I log into plesk, I get an error.
From the error below, I'm guessing it has to do with these ...
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Git: push via ssh to a root owned repository with ssh root logins disabled
is that even possible?
Summary, i'm running puppet master on a server and ideally we want root logins via ssh disabled, we want to force all access via sudo if root access required
however we have ...
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Automate root ssh scripts [closed]
We require to be able to run some script as root from nothing other than an SSH login.
IE, we have root and password, and we need to perform a script action on a bunch of servers.
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Allow password access for all users except root?
I want to leave the root user enabled on my servers for convenience, and the only reason people are against the idea (that I know of) is brute-force attacks on SSH.
So, is there is a way in SSH to ...
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Faking the '/' directory for a local site
I'm developing a web application on my local linux machine in a directory inside my home folder.
~/gits/myApp/
When I need to reference modules directories in my code I'd like to prepend the ...
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How to give user root access without giving him root password
The scenario is this:
I have a development machine I want (need) to have root access to
Our admin setups the machines using his own credentials for the root user. The explanation being that if ...
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Linux /home privacy
Warrning: this is probably against Unix philosophy and desgin, but I will ask it anyway.
Is there a way to achive privacy for three seperate /home/user folders? Problem which is rasing that ...
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Run application as root without sudo
I have an application (VirtualBox) which I need to run as root user. I can run sudo VirtualBox just fine, but I want to have a shortcut on my Desktop which I only have to click on to start VirtualBox ...
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How do you make it obvious you are on a production system?
A few of us at my company have root access on production servers. We are looking for a good way to make it exceedingly clear when we have ssh'd in.
A few ideas we have had are:
Bright red prompt
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Linux :: Shared aliases in /etc/profile.d not applied to root user, why?
On my Fedora 14 developer machine I can add a sharedAliases.sh file to /etc/profile.d -- both my user and root user then have access to the shared aliases.
Switch over to remote CentOS 5.7 machine ...
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how do i perform root actions from non-root account?
I want to be able to restart services from a php-script. running under the www-user account.
What's the preferred way to perform these actions?
I recon I can place create a file with que'd commands, ...
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how to run xampp as non-root on linux
in our office, we have 3 web development PCs running ubuntu natty. due to some hard-headed people, instead of trusting them with "sudo powers", i have decided to put the PCs on lockdown and create an ...
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Booting root filesystem on LVM
I can't seem to make this work (or find info on the internet on the issue). Are there any additional settings when creating initramfs with the root filesystem on lvm?
This should be the settup:
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How to share drive root of USB hard drive in Windows Server 2008?
Windows Server 2008 -> Computer Management -> System Tools -> Shared Folders -> Shares
I can set up a share for the root of the external drive, but I cannot access it from another computer on the ...
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How to avoid accidental root access to non-world-readable directories?
Given the following directory:
drwx------ 2 joe joe 4096 Jan 11 2010 /home/joe
Is there a way for me as the user root, to avoid accidentally cd-ing into this directory?
I'm not looking for actual ...
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Amazon EC2 fault after upgrade lose root access
ufff I upgrade my instance with amazon ec2 . I login again with my keypair and OK I am there User ubuntu
Now I make sudo su or sudo -i and now the system ask password . What password I not setup any ...
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How do I find current root logins
How can I identify all terminals that have a root login on them on Linux?
who -a seems to give me regular logins but what about root?
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Accidently locked myself out of MySQL by changing the host
While trying to get remote MySQL working, I somehow managed to lock myself out with the root account.
Normally, I would stop the MySQL service and restart it using /etc/init.d/mysql --init-file, but ...
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How to add root user in nis passwd file?
One of the sys admins accidentally moved aside /etc/passwd... doh!
Restoring the file from backup doesn't work... it errors out because root user does not exist.
I've got NIS running at this site and ...
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My MySQL root user is gone, how do I recover it?
I was trying to move the MySQL tables so them were in another folder, so I messed out the plugins table or something like that and I ended up reinstalling the whole thing.
I did sudo aptitude purge ...
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CVS does not run properly as nonroot user
I get an "rejected acces to DIR for user USER" message, when I try an "cvs login" to my local cvs... BUT everything works just fine, when cvs is set to run as root...
Im running FreeBSD 7.2, here is ...
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My Server returning 302 for site root how can i make the my domain without redirect to default.aspx?
when i enter http://www.spotagel.com and hit enter it does redirect to http://www.spotagel.com/default.aspx , and with 302 response, how sould i change my dns records to point to root without ...
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Linux: Send email to another address instead of /var/spool/mail/root
I manage a micro linux server on Amazon EC2. Occasionally I get email sent to the root account and if I'm logged in, I'll get the notice:
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
How do I get ...
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Reset Debian 6's root password? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Lost Root and other user passwords
I just installed 64-bit Debian 6 on Virtual Box. During installation, I already enabled the root login. Now the strange this is I ...
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Debian: Unable to connect to ssh with a user I just created
I've a debian 6 installed on a server.
I installed ingres on this server, which runs now with the user "ingres", I want to connect to ssh with the ingres user(for many reason, one of them is that ...
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PostgreSQL: Living without root
This is not a question with a concrete answer, I know, but one that seeks experienced views...
The OS environment I run is as vanilla as possible so it's often undesirable to install things into root ...
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run script from ssh as non root linux
hey well I login to my ssh client as the root user, since I don't know how to do it any other way and then why I try to run this script using the plain old
./filename.ext
an error log is generated ...
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How to re-gain access to a running EC2 instance?
We own an AWS account but we're no longer in contact with the developer who had sole access to the running EC2 instance.
Restarting the instance may not be possible: As far as we understand, shutting ...
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Trouble moving Debian to a new machine
I want to move a Debian installation to a new root server, but I don't get it to boot. Also I can't see why, as I don't see the boot screen. Here is what I did so far:
# from the new server's rescue ...
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How can I expand the /dev/root partition?
How can I expand /dev/root? I can't seem to do this using an LVExtend command.
Thanks,
James
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D-Link DMC-1002 Management Module Password Reset
We just purchased a D-Link DMC-1000 media converter chassis with a DMC-1002 management module. Connected to the module through a COM port and PuTTy and changed the root password. Subsequent login ...
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Access file outside document root
I'm trying to write on a file that is outside the document root, which is /var/www/html.
The file I want to access is /home/user/files/folder1/info.txt, but my PHP file can't open it (it does even say ...
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PHP not functioning outside vhosts directory - why?
I've got Apache 2.2 working, and my virtualhosts work within the following directories:
C:/www (main Apache root)
C:/www/vhosts (virtual hosts)
However, I cannot get PHP files to function outside ...
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How to get the number of available updates on an Ubuntu system as a normal user
I need this for a simple monitoring script which i don't want to run as root...
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Reset mysql root password after phpmyadmin corrupted it
So I tried to change my mysql root password for the first time using a advanced pattern and it looks like phpmyadmin stripped the password on save. Now I can't login under root.
I am using RHEL 5 ...
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Main Apache pid as root, even though set up to be nobody?
I believe I had set everything up correctly when I had built the server (maybe it was a pre-configured LAMP that the VPS host Linode supplied that set things up)
It seems that every Apache process ...
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Ordinary user is able to read /etc/passwd, isn't this a security hole
ls -l /etc/passwd
gives
$ ls -l /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1862 2011-06-15 21:59 /etc/passwd
So an ordinary user can read the file. Isn't this a security hole ?
