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root is the default administrative account for Unix-based systems. It is comparable to the Administrator account of a Windows system.

root is the default administrative account for Unix-based systems. It is comparable to the Administrator account of a Windows system.

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Changed root's shell to non-existing path

I just made a bit of a mistake: Fresh install of FreeBSD 8.2 logged in as root installed bash from ports created users, setting bash as shell vipw (edit passwd file) changed root's shell from /bin/csh to /bin/bash logged out log in as…
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Best practice for multi Admin root access

I'm trying to put together a security policy for a collection of Linux servers. There are 8 people in my organization that require root level access over SSH. At a past company, my solution was to permit only RSA keys and give everyone a user with…
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Can't login using ssh as root

I am trying to virtualize an old linux server, and the PtoV software requires a password login as root via ssh. However, the root login is being prevented with a "Permission Denied" error on the client end, and a "Failed Password for root" on the…
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Strange message after su

After performing the regular update of my Ubuntu 10.04.1, and a reboot (because kernel update), I opened a terminal window and entered $ su - Password: su: Authentication failure $ $ su - Password: Added user root. # (First I…
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www-data ownership makes the WordPress installation consume more memory

I have a WordPress installation. When the ownership of the folder is root, the memory consumed is okay. However, when I change the ownership to the www-data user, it starts consuming a lot of memory and starts throwing a lot of out of memory error.…
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Safe rsync with no passwords between two systems

We are trying to implement a safe rsync for backups between 2 servers. We are trying by all means to avoid having root access with no passwords between the 2 systems and if any just do that for an specific user. I understand this has issues with…
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Amazon EC2 instance is out of space because "root" file is gigantic

I've been working lately on an AWS EC2 instance with ubuntu. This is my first experience working with servers, so I'm really new to this. Lately I've noticed my free space has completely filled up for some reason. When I run df -h it gives…
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Why are cron jobs appearing in logcheck reports?

I've just installed logcheck and configured it to send mail to me whenever it finds problems. It runs every hour by default at HH:02 and is mailing me stuff like this: Jan 31 20:05:01 Linux CRON[3186]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null…
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sshd on Fedora: Recent changes to UsePAM break existing security; PermitRootPassword & UsePAM no not honored, minimal PAM config doesn't work either

I did upgrade on a Fedora Server and was SHOCKED to discover thousands of root attacks on my publicly facing servers and I can't seem to figure out how to stop them! To be clear; It IS possible to log in to the root account with a password when it…
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CPanel - How to stop Apache from running as root user?

So this is returning 'root' and I don't know how to prevent it. I'm using WebHost Manager / CPanel which is supposed to create multiple users/vhosts and have Apache spawn it's process as that user/group. This isn't…
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Configure sudo to ask for root password

Is it possibile to configure sudo to ask for root password instead of user password? The server is configured with a root user and a simple user (let's call him simple) with limited privileges, used to deploy all the applications hosted on the…
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apache-user & root access

I want to develop few scripts in php that will invoke following commands; using exec() function service network restart crontab -u root /xyz/abc/fjs/crontab etc. The issue is that Apache executes script as apache user (I am on CentOS 5),…
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Problem after system update. Root permission denied, user lib permission denied

As I updated opensuse 11.1 with update packages from october and november 2009, I couldnt use the command ping. For root it gives Permission denied and for a regular user I get libresolv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied. The…
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Dialogs still ask for user password (instead of root's) after adding rootpw to sudoers file

To add an extra layer of security I'm using the rootpw option in the sudoers file and while it works perfectly fine from the shell, when a specific command invokes the GUI version of "elevation", only the user password will work in that case and not…
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How to create superuser in CentOS 7

I am very new to Linux OS (i've started with CentOS 7), so i was wondering if it's possible to create some sort of super user who will have same privileges as root. By that i mean ability to write + read + execute folders and files who are owned by…
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