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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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Changing non-root user passwords from root (if you don't know the old password?)

Hey, so I created a user, and he has been sshing in and doing a lot of stuff, but he forgot his password - is there any way for me to change his password without knowing it?
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Debian: how to create a user with root privileges (sudo)

How do I create a user with root privileges in Debian? Maybe it sounds a bit silly, but I don't think I need user directories, only some rights to run services (mainly web server, mysql, etc.). I just don't want to run everything under root…
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Why would sshd allow root logins by default?

I'm currently working on hardening my servers against hacking- amongst other things, i'm getting a load of attempts to log on as root over ssh. While i've implemented fail2ban, i'm wondering, why root logons would be allowed by default to start…
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What is the difference between `su` and `su -` in CentOS?

I tried to switch to 'root' in CentOS by running su. It does change to 'root', but it doesn't seem to be a real 'root' user. For example, by default, ifconfig command in /sbin is not found in the path for a normal user, but for 'root', the command…
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Regular user using ports below 1024

Is there a way on Linux (CentOS if that matters) to enable regular users to use ports below 1024? (open listening TCP socket on that port) Currently I understand that only root has privileges to use those ports.
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Start PHP-FPM with root option automatically

I was trying to get PHP-FPM running a pool as root, but I can't seem to adjust the init.d startup params. It works when starting PHP-FPM from the CLI (with sudo php-fpm7.0 -DRy /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php-fpm.conf, but I can't get this to work with the…
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Preserve ownership with rsync, without root

I would like to perform incremental backups (for the entire filesystem) from a machine. rsync does this quite will, however I would like to also preserve file ownership - meaning, make it possible to restore it. Is this possible to do without…
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How to btrfs check a root partition

I'm sure the reason I'm having a brain fart is because it's late, but how can I go about performing a btrfs check on the root partition? The device needs to be unmounted, which can't happen because it's the root partition... Thanks
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Permission denied for root to change inotify max_user_watches, how solve this?

As root in a CentOs 6.4 server I got this error in an application: Fri May 16 01:45:23 2014 Error: Terminating since out of inotify watches. Consider increasing /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches But when I try to run the command as root I got…
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I have WHM root access but unable to connect using SSH

I have root WHM password for a domain and I am able to login using following URL http://domain_name/whm But when I use the same root password to connect to server using SSH I get access denied message. How can I solve this issue? I want to login…
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Linux :: Shared aliases in /etc/profile.d not applied to root user, why?

On my Fedora 14 developer machine I can add a sharedAliases.sh file to /etc/profile.d -- both my user and root user then have access to the shared aliases. Switch over to remote CentOS 5.7 machine and what appears to be the exact same config, no…
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Linux: Send email to another address instead of /var/spool/mail/root

I manage a micro linux server on Amazon EC2. Occasionally I get email sent to the root account and if I'm logged in, I'll get the notice: You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root How do I get these emails sent to another email address (like…
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ubuntu - how can I avoid typing a password on every admin action?

I just set-up ubuntu 9.10 on my computer, and I'm trying to figure out how to avoid typing a password on every action that requires sudo privileges. I just want to type a password once on login and have all rights throughout my session. Also, I'd…
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Auditd in a PCI-DSS-compliant Linux cluster

I'm familiar with some of the more common ways of configuring a Linux server to be compliant with PCI-DSS 3.2, at least to the requirements of SAQ A. A common concern is requirement 8.5 which requires that: Generic user IDs and accounts are…
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Can I simulate an S3 bucket going down when it is accessible to root user?

I'm trying to test new network monitoring code for an application that runs on a Debian appliance. I am currently tasked with ensuring that an SNMP trap is thrown when external network shares (such as S3 buckets) are mounted with FUSE and the…
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