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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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Change user password within user with root account

I'm logged into (ssh) my ubuntu server into a non-root user account. I can not directly ssh into the server as root, because I disabled it. I have the root password. I need to change the user password that I am currently logged into without its…
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nginx doesn't find the directory but apache does

I use apache as the backend server and nginx on the frontend. Apache listens to port 8080 and nginx to port 80. What I do is have the root point to the public folder foreach virtualhost: ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost …
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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: var/www/vhosts/mypage/httpdocs/ I have posted this command: chown -R…
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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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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 have always heard good things about. After…
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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 rc-update, or check my iptables configuration status.…
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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? I've had a look through some config files and 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 or user: cn=root,dc=ldap,dc=local Bind password:…
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Ubuntu bash scripting with root commands

I am trying to write a bash startup script in Ubuntu 9.04 that will remove the annoying system beep from my computer: #/bin/bash rmmod pcspkr #remove system beep; also doesnt work without root access it keeps coming back when I start my computer…
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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? I didn't change anything.
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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 something goes wrong or he needs to change something he…
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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: /boot -> bootable ext3, containing the kernels / ->…
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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 serving the passwd/group/shadow files and I tried…
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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 mysql-server then I removed the MySQL data rm -rf…
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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 when I do "su ingres", it seems that commands stored…
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