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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

At my work we ship our product on pre-installed servers as a software/hardware package. We are using open SUSE 10.3 for the OS and we setup and we always log in with the root user to do maintenance on the box. Recently we just had box returned to…
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How to recover root password?

I have a FreeBSD box which I forgot the root password to. I do have physical access, so I can reboot the box if I need to. How do I reset my password?
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Root denied login if networking down (LDAP environment)

I would like to know why I can't login as root (ssh, sudo or su -) when my LDAP is down or when I have some outage in my network. How to reproduce the problem: - Just change your DNS to something that does not work (example: nameserver 100.0.2.2) -…
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Is it really a bad practice to let « PermitRootLogin yes » on a production server?

One day (4 years ago), I rebooted my server. After the reboot was complete, I tried to login as usual with my regular (non-root) account. At that time, I had PermitRootLogin no. I got the answer The system is going down on Sun Aug 16 00:43:48…
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Why should I never run software as root, yet it is frequently recommended to give an account root-access to run software?

I am a long time technical professional but 100% of my work has been within a Windows environment. I have a pretty good level of understanding of many of the technical issues such as user account management, security and software development. While…
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Effect Locking a user account with a UID of 0

Currently my organization has in it's linux configuration two accounts with a UID of 0 - Root and Root2. If we were to set a failed login attempts setting for the Root2 account, and the account were subsequently locked, would it also lock out the…
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Allowing root login on sftp while disallowing it over ssh?

For security I only allow a dummy user to log in via SSH on my CentOS 5.8 server, for this I added: AllowUsers dummyaccount When accessing my server I then login with the dummy and use su - to gain root privileges, this works perfectly well. Now…
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How is your "maintenance account" configured?

I know I'm not supposed to log in as root directly to configure things on my server. So, I always make a new account and add it to /etc/sudoers. I'd like to get some tips on configuring this maintenance account, however. Do you give it a home…
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What's the safest way to kick off a root-level process via cgi on an Apache server?

The problem: I have a script that runs periodically via a cron job as root, but I want to give people a way to kick it off asynchronously too, via a webpage. (The script will be written to ensure it doesn't run overlapping instances or such.) I…
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Check if root ca certificate is installed

We are having a custom CA for our local-domains. The Root CA certificate is installed on all the corporate machines by default, but sometimes it happens that we have someone here who doesn't have it installed. If the user a) accesses our intranet…
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Resetting root password on Fedora Core 3 - serial cable access only

A little background: We have an old rackmount server running a customised version of Fedora, manufactured by a company called Navaho. The server is a TeamCAT, running some proprietary rubbish called Freedom2. We have to keep it going - the…
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To root or not to root?

Please see the (somewhat) related topic here. My day-to-day tasks on a linux machine require superuser access since I would be (re)starting services, monitoring the system, (un)installing stuff etc. Some time ago, I was insulted/ridiculed in an IRC…
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Can root become user and access encrypted home?

The home is mounted unencrypted on login. I tried accessing it after doing 'su sampleuser', but it was encrypted, which is the expected behavior I guess. I also tried changing the user's password, and then logging in, but I was redirected to the…
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Oracle Solaris 11 x64 root password?

I have installed OS 11 x64 on a pc to evaluate if this could be my new system for a home storage array of 48TB. I have a very basic problem: I somehow cannot access root with the admin password created at the install. I am currently logged in as…
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SSH hosts.deny and hosts.allow

I have this content in hosts.deny (with a new line at the end): # # hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are # *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. # # The…
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