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Root only has read permission for /etc/ssh/sshd_config?
I'm trying to edit my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file as per these instructions to properly set up git on my Synology NAS:
http://www.wonko.de/2010/04/set-up-git-on-synology-nas.html (step 6)
However, when ...
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What is the difference between “sudo -i” and “sudo bash -l”
There is a recent question regarding multiple sysadmins working as root, and sudo bash -l was referenced.
I searched for this on google and SE, but I don't understand the difference between sudo ...
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Multiple Linux sysadmins working as root
In our team we have three seasoned Linux sysadmins having to administer a few dozen Debian servers. Previously we have all worked as root using SSH public key authentication. But we had a discussion ...
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How to shutdown from a script without being root?
I've got an amazon EC2 instance, which starts up, runs a script, and when the script finishes, I want to shut it down.
I tried chmod g+s to give super user privileges on a .sh script which called ...
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I have WHM root access but unable to connect using SSH
I have root WHM password for a domain and I am able to login using following URL
http://domain_name/whm
But when I use the same root password to connect to server using SSH I get access denied ...
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Limited root access
I have a rather unique situation that I need to come up with a solution for. We have servers by which a remote team requires having root access to our servers to perform certain jobs. We need to still ...
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how to check if my root server was compromised
My provider sent me an email stating that my root server seems to have been misused for attacking other systems.
How do I check if this is true and my system is compromised?
I was told I have 4 days ...
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Working out some quirks of a master SSH server
I am starting a web hosting company and there are a few details that I have yet to figure out, one of them being some sort of SSH VPN to connect to our servers running CentOS 6 with cPanel.
So this ...
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Home directory owner is root instead of user
I am adding users using the command useradd in opensuse 12.1 and creating a home directory on NFS. The problem here is the home directory's owner is root instead of user.
msvlsi67:~ # useradd -g ...
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Logging in as root [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What's wrong with always being root?
I have a server running in a datacenter with strong firewall & VPN protection. I have a few java apps which I have written ...
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Run a script as root from apache
I would like to update my hosts file and restart dnsmasq from a web interface (php/apache2). I tried playing around with suid bits (the demonstaration). I have both apache and dnsmasq running on an ...
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Downgrade/replace root user?
Is it possible to safely downgrade the user 'root', replacing it with a different account name? (say 'admin'). So, in the end, 'admin' would be uid 0 and 'root' 123.
I am using Centos, if that makes ...
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After Changing Permisions, Plesk,Root,Mysql is Down
i have connected on Root with SSH Access.
Becouse i transfer the files with root, all files was root own. I need it to be on other user, so i was connected on as my current folder:
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Cannot start apache (Unable to change directory to /root)
When trying to start Apache by using:
/etc/init.d/httpd start
I get the following error in /var/log/httpd/error_log:
Unable to change directory to /root
Anyone have any idea what this means?
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Expand root partition without LVM
I've got free unpartitioned space which I'd like to use to expand my root partition.
The server runs under Debian Squeeze and I'm administrating it with no GUI.
How can I do that?
Do I need the free ...
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Remove user from root group
Somehow I managed to add user Tom to root group in Ubuntu, in order to avoid using sudo everytime (bad decision). Now I want to remove it and I can't.
I've tried using
usermod -G {groups} Tom
My ...
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permission denied for chmod as root
I need to manage a customer's openvz guest (latest debian squeeze 64 bit). Now when I try to do a chmod 0750 /root as root it gives me Permission denied. This really puzzles me, as I thought root can ...
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Oracle Solaris 11 x64 root password?
I have installed OS 11 x64 on a pc to evaluate if this could be my new system for a home storage array of 48TB. I have a very basic problem: I somehow cannot access root with the admin password ...
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OpenVZ: --private vs --root options
If we want to make available a partition from host node (HN) to a container which option, private or root, to use and how?
I have a /root1 and /root2 partitions available in HN that I want to use for ...
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Why does WinSCP connect to /root and nothing else, through OpenSSH?
We set up an Amazon EC2 instance and managed to WinSCP into it by setting up WinSSHD on the server.
As WinSSHD is commercial, we were looking for a free alternative and opted to try OpenSSH, which I ...
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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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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 ...
