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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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Cannot login as root user in ssh

I create an user with root prevelages in my server. Now i cannot login into the server as root through ssh. Also I cannot access the vi editor through the new user login.
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ps -u root shows that httpd is running as root - is this safe?

In the command line if I do this: ps -u root | less one of the lines is this 19974 ? 00:00:01 httpd is this safe, to have the main httpd process as running as root? if i do this : 'ps auxf | less' it looks like it spawns sub processes
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Why is it recommended to work in Linux with a non-root user?

Possible Duplicate: What's wrong with always being root? The very first rule I've been taught about Linux is never to use root as your main user and I was wondering why
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Automate root ssh scripts

We require to be able to run some script as root from nothing other than an SSH login. IE, we have root and password, and we need to perform a script action on a bunch of servers.
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User with "root" privileges can't actually see all folders

There is this problem with my newly created user with "root" privilages in my web server Ubuntu LTS 12.04 . I follow the rule: adduser newuser usermod -a -G sudo newuser then I add in visudo # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL:ALL)…
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Disable root servers in bind

I installed a simple bind server on fedora 28. By default dns-queries for which it has no answers are sent to the root servers. However I want them to go to the openDNS servers. I have removed the zone "." entry, removed named.ca, configured…
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How to increase the size of the root directory in centos 6

how i can increase the size of the root directory .i face some problem of cache of my sql. result of command df -h # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_host-lv_root 50G 24G 23G 51% …
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Meaning of root zone

In a db.root file, what are these lines supposed to mean? $TTL 86400 . IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.EDU. root.A.ROOT-SERVERS.EDU. ( 1 ; serial number (update count) 28800 ; refresh (8 h) 7200 ; retry (2 h) 604800 …
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