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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 WordPress root directory in nginx

I have a website that address is site.com and also a WordPress that is site.com/blog. I would change the WordPress root directory in the nginx. here is my config: server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server…
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Can't login after installing with, playing with, and uninstalling zsh

The really bad news here (I think) is that I use the root account to log in to my Centos 7 box. The other day I saw an article about zsh, and installed it out of curiosity. Today I decided it's twaddle and I'd rather go back to regular bash, so I…
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Can PHP have not root permissions, if it is runned via root cron job?

In /etc/crontab i see a job like this: 15 15 * * * root /usr/local/bin/php /path/to/script.php So, with some other settings, cat this php script have not root access, when runned? My system administrator says, that it's safe and PHP…
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Core processes are started to run under another user, not root

I have added a new user as abc, with UID 0 and GUID 0 (as same as root. I know, it was a bad idea) Now, when I connect to ssh via root, it's shown as abc@localhost, not root@localhost. Also, all core processes are started to run under abc, not root.…
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linux + when change passwd we get permission denied

We have installed Redhat Linux 6.5 from scratch the VIA kick start installation and booted into single user mode because I don't have the root password. But when I perform the following: passwd root changing password for user root passwd: permission…
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Passwordless root login with ssh tectia denied by policy

I need to setup passwordless root access with ssh tectia. I've done the following: created keypair via ssh-keygen as usual copied private key to *source_host*:/etc/opt/SSHtectia/keys/root . Also i created file…
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nginx 1.8.1 only works with default root

I have Cent OS 6.6 with nginx 1.8.1 installed. It seems like if I change the root in the conf file to something other than the default '/usr/share/nginx' it gives an error 403 Permission denied. I have even given 777 permission to the other folder…
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Give Non Root group of Users access to start mysqld service

I have a Non Root User abc,abc2..... I want to add this to a group of users and want to give the group of user ssudo rights only to restart, start or stop - mysqld service. i.e sudo service mysqld restart. How can I do it so?
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How do I remove my user from the "roots" group?

I accidentally added my user myuser to the group root using the command sudo usermod -a -G root myuser. Now I want to remove myuser from roots, but I am unable to do so. I tried the following: deluser myuser root sudo gpasswd -d myuser root but I…
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Running Rails Application as root user on nginx

My application(running on nginx) is unable to ssh into a remote machine, reason being that the client has has given ssh rights only to the root user on their server. While debugging this issue, I ran a command 'whoami' from my application and the…
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How to allow all clients access to remote MySQL server?

So I followed this guide to gain remote access to a MySQL server for my laptop. However, my IP changes and I want to be able to access the server outside my network. How can I allow any client IP to access it if they have the password? Here are…
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chowned root directory recursive

accidently I did "chown -R www-data:www-data /" (I wanted to chown current directory). Is the only good way now to set the system up again from beginning? waaaah -.- Thanks
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Set up Ubuntu FTP with root access to whole server

I've been trying to set up Ubuntu 12.10 with FTP to give the A user access to read/write any file on the server. I understand some people discourage root access for this, but at this stage I am more concerned with getting it to work first, and will…
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MS SQL Express is not enough - whats to do?

I now have my first bigger project of my own. I invested around 500 working hours and the project is done. It's actual ASP.Net with C# and Linq to SQL, the platform is an MS SQL Server 2005 Express edition on a Windows server 2008 Web edition -…
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Site Crashing and Restarting again

Hello i got a wordpress site http://www.flippish.com. I have some problems with my server coz it keeps on dying around 1-2 hours after i reboot apache then restarting by itself i think thats its because of apache settings i have it on MAxclients:…
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