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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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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 is what I am looking to do... 1) Have a master…
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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 unpartitioned space to be right after /dev/sda1…
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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 which was owned by root (file perms 644),…
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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 permission enforcement, but for some setting (e.g.…
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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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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 my config: /etc/inetd.conf: cvspserver stream …
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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 saying it cant be run as the root user. I was…
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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 attempts fail now and trying to reset the password…
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Member of root group on two different computers, permissions don't match

I am a member of the root group on two different computers. On one computer I can do almost anything while I can't do these same things on the other. Example: iptables --list which is owned by root:root on both. mike628@NASBD122F:/sbin$ iptables…
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How can I limit root to being able to only login on the console via /etc/security/access.conf

I know that I can prevent root from logging in via ssh with /etc/ssh/sshd_config but the auditors also want to see it done in /etc/security/access.conf as well. It seems doable but I can't determine the correct syntax or order? To test I am…
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Running a script as root at bootup

I have a simple script to help me do some power saving: #!/bin/bash echo 1 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save echo min_power > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy echo 1500 >…
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Locked out of EC2 ubuntu instance

root access worked on my EC2 instance for a couple of weeks until I did sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude upgrade and now sudo asks for a password (which I have never been given). I can't log in as root (says "Please login as the user "ubuntu"…
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Multi-Domain Shared Hosting

I have a shared hosting pack with 2 domains, one is the default domain bought with the pack, and the second will be pointed to a sub-directory within my root. The problem is that I want both the domains to point to sub-directories. The current…
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How to provide write Access to root drive in windows server 2003?

How to provide write Access to root drive in windows server 2003 for "non-admin" users ? This is kind of requirement now, and happening in a controlled environment, so dont bother about security issues.
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