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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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login aws ec2 after setting up root passwd

I set the password for ec2 but after I log out I cannot log back in with my pem file. sudo su passwd ... ➜ ssh -i /Users/shawn/.ssh/shawn.pem ubuntu@ec2-13-56-168-110.us-west- 1.compute.amazonaws.com Permission denied…
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CentOS 6 deleting files from /root/ after a reboot?

Twice recently I've noticed that my vim settings have changed to defaults. Investigation shows that all files have been deleted from my /root/ directory. (Yes I currently log in as root, that's a different conversation...) Can anyone suggest why…
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Debian - limiting access for not-fully-trusted admin users

I'm small company owner, currently managing about 15 Debian based boxes, providing VoIP and hosted PBX services Company is growing, I have less time to manage all of that machines I'd like to hire system administrator, but I have a strong fear of…
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Cron and interactive application

I want to schedule a gui application in cron, but there is a problem. When cron tries to run the scheduled task (amarok in my case) it throws cannot connect to X server error. I assume it is because the application is executed from my root account.…
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nginx config multiple root doesn't work

According to the config, site.com should open html/web/index.php by default, however site.com/ticket should open html/ticket/index.php. Both ticket and web folders located in html. server { listen 80; return 301…
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setting up root password in aws linux instance

we have setup the aws linux instances with ssh keys. Ubuntu user can be login with ssh key , sudo su - getting into root user without prompt password and set the password for root even though not prompting password. how to switch the root user with…
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Permission denied to mkdir in /mnt

i am trying to mkdir inside /mnt/logs/ in order to mount an NFS mountpoint. But i am getting: mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/logs/server2': Permission denied /mnt/logs/ is full of other NFS mountpoints. root@server1 ~]# ll -d…
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User root dissapear

I have a debian 8 box. It is a plesk server with 90+ websites. It seems somebody access to my server and delete the user root. I go to /etc/passwd and the file is not owned by root:root is owned by hacker:root as hacker is an username of the person…
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Keep Root Account Audit Trail

I am the owner of a company. I want to keep an audit trail of our Unix administrator who has root access to the CentOS system. How can I configure it such that the audit trail cannot be bypassed and erased even for Root user? Thanks in advance!
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Oracle Linux virtual machine's root size is not getting increased

Size of root was 100% in OEL 7 virtual machine in ESXi, so I have used Gpated iso to resize the root space. After booting OEL 7 df -h still showing as 100% used i.e. still showing old size.
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Apache doesn't load document root

So, the problem seems simple, but I'm trying to solve it unfortunately without result. Apache still doesn't see a "/web" catalog (for example, I can't load css styles or images that exist there). Below is my httpd-vhosts.conf: # Virtual…
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My dedicated server won't startup

I tried almost everything (I am with soyoustart) but it just won't boot, I got this message from the soyoustart team, they won't help me since it's software related. (dedicated server is used for game server and for my website) my root partition was…
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Why isn't my root domain's server DNS address found?

I (thought I) followed directions to map a custom domain to a web app on Azure here. With Namecheap I made an A record and TXT record for the "@" root host, and also an A record and TXT record for the "www" subdomain. Only the "www" subdomain serves…
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How to fix useradd: Invalid configuration: GID_MIN (7000), GID_MAX (900)

I am running a service as root. This service creates a user and a group but fails at creating a user with the above error how can this be fixed?
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Pass user and group to a shell script on commandline

I ahve a requirement to run a script thats only runnable with a specific user and group. The format of the command is like $PROGRAM_HOME/bin/installService.sh [USER [GROUP]] I tried running the script as $PROGRAM_HOME/bin/installService.sh root…
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