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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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Can I set up the server so that a leading slash in the filepath doesn't go to root?

I'm working on a friend's site, which works fine live, but isn't working on my computer. After tearing my hair out for a while, I figured out it's because he wrote all his links with a leading slash. For example, if the file…
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MySQL root user can't access database

We have a MySQL database ('myhours') on a production database server that is accessible to one user ('edsf') only, but not to the root user. The command 'SHOW DATABASES' as the root user does not list the 'myhours' database. The same command as the…
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can I restrict access to root to only connected instance?

It will mean that if I am connected another user that will try to authenticate as root will get an error.
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How do you tell if a user is logged in as root on Mac OS X?

If I sudo /bin/bash, the who and w command does not show a root login on Mac OS X. How do you enable this?
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Installing RRDTool without root access

I am trying to install rrdtool without root access on RHEL. Ive done this before on a diff machine where all i had to do was give a prefix in the configure file like : ./configure --prefix=/installdir However on this machine it seems a lot of…
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Problem with certificates issued this month (thawte) in apache

We have issued a new certificate this month, and is giving us some problemas. According to thawte, they migrated to 2048 the root, but we can't get the point to configure those new certificates in apache 2.2 Thwate Root Migration ¿Any advice or link…
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Site down after root drive expanion on EC2

I have expanded the root drive of an EC2 windows instance machine. Now after re-attaching the drive and firing up the instance, i cannot RDP into the instance as the site is down which as being hosted on the EC2 machine instance. Has anyone faced…
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Ubuntu : Need to do file operations without root permissions

I need to let unpriviledged user change ownership of files or create node files on Ubuntu system. I have looked into fakeroot but that did not work. Maybe need to use a jail chroot ? Looking for anything like customizing user permissions, a script…
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what is a root server hosting?

While searching online for dedicated hosting servers i stumble on some websites offering root servers for great prices compared to other dedi servers while features were also great. Does anyone know what root servers is all about?
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mount -a asks for password with root user

I have set up the cron job at reboot like @reboot sleep 20;mount -a BUt i have received he email that it asks for password how can i supply password with mount
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How can I run hudson under tomcat as a non-root user?

Currently my tomcat is running as root because it does bind to port 80. I do want to run hudson as a non-root user inside tomcat. How do I do this? I'm looking for a solution that would not require me to add an apache proxy over tomcat.
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Deleting a file created with a SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE

I am trying to delete a file created with a SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE statement into the /tmp directory The file belongs to the mysql user (who doesn't have a login shell). I have administrative privileges on the database (i.e. I can login into mysql…
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Subversion post commit hook checkout to website document root

Possible Duplicate: Subversion post commit hook checkout to website document root We have setup Subversion on our Debian development box, we have also setup a post-commit hook that will svn update the repository out to /var/www/ourwebsite The…
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Setting up key based authentication for root

I connect to one linux machine with a standard user account and use sudo when it is necessary to perform something a little above my users station. One of those things would be to perform a pull using git (sudo git pull). I want to set up key based…
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temp folder in Macos under root?

I'm eriting a MacOS script that need to run under admin rights (under 'sudo'). Script needs a temp folder in order to keep some temp files. Unfortunately, there is no 'TMPDIR' under root! If i run 'env' i see TMPDIR with a nice temp path. If i run…
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