General :: Broke Root Account ?

Oct 6, 2010

I deleted the root line in passwd and shadow and then tried to copy the backup and was able to put it all back to normal from rescue mode. However when i get to my login screen i can not login as root anymore or even after logged in as another user i can not su - or su root, it tells me that root user does not exist......

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General :: Using SSH To Log Into A Non-root Account Using Root Password

Feb 10, 2010

I am trying to log into a server with a particular account. Let's say I don't know the password for that account. Can I do this using ssh? I am wondering if it is possible to do it in one command, instead of logging in as root and running su.

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General :: Use Crontab -e To Set It Up Under The Root Account?

Jul 16, 2010

I have set up my crontab and whilst Im logged in and it works (It runs my shell script), however when Im not logged in, the script does not run. Initially I set the time/date to 0 0 * * * (Midnight every day), as this did not work, I tested it with to 0 * * * * (every hour) whilst logged in and the script starts.

I use crontab -e to set it up under the root account..Im sure you dont have to be logged in for it to run?, but maybe im missing a step or just overdosing on Linux and need a holiday:-)

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General :: How To Switch To Root Account

Mar 11, 2010

I want to add a new user. For that purposeI switch to su and give root passwd. There I gave a command " useradd ". [smith@localhost smith]#adduser when i press enter key by typing adduser command it say me "Command not found" .Then i log off from my own account and login again from root account. The command "useradd" is then accepted.is there any way that without logging off from normal user account I may enter my roor accout and work as a root account instead to log off from normal user account.

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General :: Disposable Account With Root Access ?

Jul 12, 2010

I have a Web server issue for which I have hired a reputable local consultant (recommended by several people in our local Linux User Group).

For some of his tasks, he will need root access.

How do I build him an account, specifically for him that I can delete later, that will allow him both unprivileged and root access?

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General :: Root User Account Number For System?

Feb 18, 2010

What is the user account number when you create a root user account for the system during the installation of any linux distribution? I'm not sure if its 0, 1, 10, or 100..

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General :: Limit Root Access To User Account?

Jun 24, 2010

I am a user of a cluster. I don't want root to see/copy files from my user account(obviously). Is that possible to limit the access of root to users account?

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General :: Switching To Root Account In A Bash Shell?

Jul 15, 2011

Today I faced a very strange issue while switching to root account in a bash shell.My OS : CentOS-5.1.4

I logged in my system with account name user1 and I open the terminal and below shell opens

[user1@localhost ]$

Now when I type su and want to switch to root account , it fails

[user1@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
su: incorrect password
[user1@localhost ~]$ exit

I know the password is 123 & I m 100% sure .

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General :: Partitioning For Slackware 10.1 - Require Traditional Root Account

Aug 31, 2009

In the ubuntu series I find my hard disk description as this: /dev/sda. As we know in slackware (10.1) for partitioning we either use 'fdisk' or 'cfdisk' when I use fdisk, like mentioned: fdisk /dev/sda. It says disk cannot be found.... or something like that. I think I know why?

You see my hard disk has the D: E: F: as extended partitions comprising logical drives and only my C: drive is pure primary. Does this have any connection with my problem? As from my explanation you can find that I'm a total wreck with computers.. but I'm very thrilled to learn linux. The reason why I need slax is that I require a traditional root account.

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OpenSUSE Install :: Get Root Privileges On User Account Without Using Root Login?

Feb 5, 2011

i am having problems with privileges i have created a new user with my name, but i cant get root privileges on it. i need the same privileges as the root profile.

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Server :: Fedora Sending Mails From Root With Non-root Account?

Jul 14, 2011

I've started to get emails that would typically come from [URL] as [URL]. These emails come from services that send out emails (backup programs) directly, or from cronjobs. I've logged in as the non-root account and either sudo su - or su - to root and the restart the service at one point or another. If I login directly as root and bounce the service or cron the emails come across as from root. I don't see anything in my environment variables after I su to indicate what would cause this. I'm not sure where else to look? A pam setting? This seems to have happened between Fedora 10 and 14 (did a bunch of overdue upgrades recently) I've only got Fedora so I don't have anything to compare to. In Fedora 10 I did not have this problem.

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General :: RHEL 4 Reboot Causes Tomcat Process To Not Be Started By Non-root Account

May 25, 2010

I have a startup script placed in /etc/init.d wherein I make the following call:

nohup sudo -u myuser $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh 2>&1

This causes Tomcat to be run as myuser, which is expected. However after issuing the reboot command the system starts up and root is now the owner of this process. How can I force the process to be started off as myuser on reboot?

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General :: Sharing Configuration (.*rc Files) Between Normal User Account And Root

Oct 2, 2010

On a Fedora Core box, I have a normal non-privileged user and I also have sole access to the root account. Because I am the only administrator of this box, I frequently su over to root for administrative tasks. The problem is that many of the user configuration I've become accustomed to are only configured on my day-to-day account (.vimrc, .bashrc, .screenrc, etc). Other than giving my day-to-day user account privileges to perform administration tasks, how would I go about sharing configuration between these two accounts?

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General :: Can Root And Main User Account Share Same Home Directory?

Feb 13, 2011

Or would this sacrifice security in some way? I've been using root only, and am ready to have a seperate account now. It's the dotfiles for GUI apps that I'm concerned about:

Code:
-rw------- 1 root root 98 Feb 13 16:23 .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 root root 6392 Feb 12 18:13 .bash_history
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jan 13 17:47 .config
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 29 21:36 .fvwm
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Nov 7 19:55 .mozilla
-rw------- 1 root root 218 Jan 26 10:04 .recently-used.xbel
-rw------- 1 root root 98 Feb 13 16:23 .serverauth.17096
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 25 12:42 .tuxcmd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 12 17:25 .xine

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General :: Disable - Non-root Shell Command To Find If A User Account Is Enabled Or Not?

Aug 10, 2011

Is there a non-root shell command that can tell me if a user's account is disabled or not? note that there is a fine distinction between LOCKING and DISABLED:

LOCKING is where you prepend ! or * or !! to the password field of the /etc/passwd file. On Linux systems that shadow the passwords, this marker flag may be placed in /etc/shadow instead of /etc/passwd. Password locking can be done (at a shell prompt) via password -l username (as root) to lock the account of username, and the use of the option -u will unlock it.

DISABLING an account is done by setting the expiration time of the user account to some point in the past. This can be done with chage -E 0 username, which sets the expiration date to 0 days after the Unix epoch. Setting it to -1 will disable the use of the expiration date.

The effect of locking to to prevent the login process from using a supplied password to hash correctly against the saved hash (by virtue of the fact that the pre-pended marker character(s) are not valid output character(s) for the hash, thus no possible input can ever be used to generate a hash that would match it). The effect of disabling is to prevent any process from using an account because the expiration date of the account has already passed.For my situation, the use of locking is not sufficient because a user might still be able to login, e.g. using ssh authentication tokens, and processes under that user can still spawn other processes. Thus, we have accounts that are enabled or disabled, not just locked. We already know how to disable and enable the account - it requires root access and the use of chage, as shown above.To repeat my question: is there a shell command which can be run without root privileges which can output the status of this account expiration info for a given user? this is intended for use on a Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 system.The output is being returned to a java process which can then parse the output as needed, or make use of the return code.

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Software :: Use Root Account For The Ftp

Aug 31, 2010

I'm trying to use my root account for the ftp. Now, he can connect but when i come in the map "home" its empty (in the ftp) but he can't get the information.

whats wrong whit my conf
vsftpd.conf:

Code:
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022

[Code].....

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Debian :: Using Root Account With Or Without Slash?

Sep 26, 2015

I came to debian from fedora so there I used ( su - ) to become root user. So my question is that in debian, is it same using ( su ) and ( su - ) or here also using ( su - ) is preferred with slash or without slash. What is the correct and secure way in debian with full root status.

One more question relating gedit sources.list

I use as root account : gedit /etc/apt/sources.list (and then enter and sources file in gedit open)

Is this correct method or any other way as when save after changing entries inside it says error.

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Ubuntu :: Can't Log Into Root User Account

Feb 5, 2011

I was changing my GUI settings in XFCE in my root user account on Xubuntu when suddenly I was logged out and the computer shut down.

(I have done this before with no such trouble...)

Now I can't log into my root account all I get is a blank screen for a few seconds then I'm back at the log-in screen, the other account works fine.

(This is on my Xubuntu 10.10 laptop BTW...)

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Ubuntu Servers :: FTP Without The Root Account?

Mar 3, 2011

I try to use FTP to put new files and catalogs on my server and I always run into problems that I have not the right to create catalogs and files in the named catalogs and so on, it is very annoying.Is there a way around this problem or do I have to activate root account to not run into these problems all the time? I have worked with different UNIX-versions and variants for the last 15 years at least and have always had access to root account, why is it so dangerous to have access to root account in ubuntu?

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Software :: Run Pulseaudio In Root Account?

Mar 29, 2011

What file needs to be modified so that Pulseaudio starts automatically when in the root account? Currently, it is necessary to start Pulseaudio from the "Run" dialog when in the root account. I recall there was a file that prevents Pulseaudio from being run as root and that particular line had to be deleted in order for it to work.

I prefer to run my computer from the root account. If not, do not preach about the "dangers" of running as root.

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Slackware :: Root Account Recovery

May 7, 2010

anyone knowledgeable could follow this thread? [URL]

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Debian :: Activating Network - Root Account ?

May 13, 2010

How do I activate networking? (I am currently logged in from Ubuntu on another computer). I installed Debian Squeeze on an iMac 7.1 (which works perfectly well with ubuntu) from the netinstall CD (today's daily build), and of course I deactivated root login, coming from ubuntu. Now I find I have to enter my root password (login password will not do) to activate networking! Is this a joke? I had the network configured with DHCP during install! So how do I activate the root account, or, more to the point, how do I get by in Debian without activating root login?

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Debian :: Change The Fonts In Gdm And Root Account?

Oct 1, 2010

how can i change the fonts in gdm and root account? Root login is disabled

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OpenSUSE Install :: Can't Login To Account - Only As Root

Apr 11, 2010

I have a dual-boot system with windows xp and suse 11.2. The last time tried to enter to suse i couldn't login to my account ,only as root. I tried to solve this through suse dvd repair option andit detected a problem in grub. i repaired it but still nothing.Also the /home partition exists and i can access it when i login as root.

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OpenSUSE Install :: Can't Even Login To My Own Account Except For 'root

Aug 3, 2010

I was configuring usermod for vboxusers and reboot when suddenly I can't even login to my own account except for 'root'.

I had disabled user login before this. There is only 1 group when I checked in YaST which is 'users' and its group member is 'games'.

Why can't I login to home account?

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Ubuntu :: Enable The Root Account - For Login - In 9.10?

Mar 17, 2010

How can I enable the root account (for login) in ubuntu 9.10?

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Ubuntu :: Unlock The Root User Account But How Can Log It On?

May 11, 2010

I unlock the root usr accout, but how can i log it on?

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Ubuntu :: Root User Account Is All Messed Up?

Oct 8, 2010

A while back I don't know what I did but I messed up my root user account and now the password that I think is supposed to be for the account doesn't work anymore.In an attempt to fix it I rebooted and went into recovery mode and then edited the sudoers file. This appears to have been good enough to be me by but now I'm running into problems installing or changing configurations in gnome. For example, I just installed Asterisk via the terminal the other day and had no problems because I could use sudo. But just now I tried installing Gastman via the Ubuntu Software Center and of course it asked for the root password.I entered my usual root password when I use sudo and it doesn't work.

I then went to the terminal and entered sudo apt-get install gastman and it worked fine becuase I used my sudo password for my account. So it seems I can do things just fine via the terminal but when in gnome it doesn't work. I went into the Users and Groups section in Gnome to attempt to set or change the root password but of course I have to unlock the application which requires the root password.

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Ubuntu :: Downloaded Java - No Root Account?

Nov 10, 2010

I just installed ubuntu 10.10. i downloaded java and was about to install before i realise i don't have root account.

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Ubuntu Servers :: Do You Need A Root-account When Using Webmin?

Mar 30, 2011

I've got an old computer around that I've put Ubuntu server 8.04 on.At the moment, this is only a little hobby of mine purely for educational purposes. (Great for learning Linux!) After using this tutorial:URL...for setting up a LAMP-server, I'm trying to figure out is whether or not setting up a root-password is necessary or not. I think the tutorial is really great for a newbie, but it consistently uses su instead of sudo.I'm aware of the fact that setting a root-password isn't recommended in the documentation, but don't you need a root-account to be able to run tools such as webmin?

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