General :: Running KDE As Root?

Aug 16, 2010

KDE panels look strange with black colors when I login using root account.Is it possible to make KDE look normal? I am using root account because I spend most of the time performing administration tasks and I don't want to type my strong password so frequently.

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General :: Running A Script At Startup As Root?

Apr 14, 2010

Is there a way I can run 'completely' one of my script when ubuntu's desktop appears no matter if root , administrator, desktop user or an unprivileged user logged in?

What does the script do? The script mounts a partition, looks for a file in that partition and finally on the basis of that file a decision of copying a partition to another partition is made. That copying is done via

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General :: Running My Shell Scripts As Root ?

Aug 18, 2010

I have been playing around with shell scripting, nothing too complex just learning the basics. if i try to run a script as root (by entering "sudo" then the "command") it says command not found. i can only do it ass root if i specify the full path (/home/username/bin/command) im pretty sure the directory that my scripts are in are part of the superusers path.

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General :: Fetchmail Services - Running As Root Discouraged

Sep 26, 2010

I have installed release CentOS 5.5 w/ fetchmail services. I've already configured the /.fetchmailrc in the correct format that I've learned from topics and I've checked also the sedmail running status. When I invoke the #fetchmail command this often happens:

fetchmail: WARNING: : Running as root is discouraged.
2 messages for user1 at mx.mailserver.com.ca: (1 of 2) (4353 octets) .....flushed

I have configured two NIC 's One for the public IP and another for the local network, I've tried to use the two IP's in the POP3 and SMTP settings of Mozilla Thunderbird but still user1 can't get messages.

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General :: Set Umask For Process Running Root User?

Nov 23, 2009

I am trying to set the umask for a process(orkaudio) which is running as the root user.This program creates dir and files and I need the umask to be 022. I have edited my /etc/bashrc -- and when i type in umask i get 0022 --- Not sure how to go about getting this resolved...

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Ubuntu Security :: Giving Root Permission To An Application But Without Running It As Root?

Jan 20, 2011

want to run VirtualBox with root permissions. Trouble is that only when run as root i can access attached USB devices inside of a virtual machine, otherwise, these a greyed out).Now running VirtualBox as a root user also changes the configuration folders, making all my virtual machines already defined disappear. I also don't want to copy all to the root configuration folders. Is there a way to give the VirtualBox root permissions but without actually running the application as a root user. Is it possible to do without changing the permissions of the non-root user, i.e. i don't want my user to have all root permissions, due to security considerations.

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Programming :: Suid Disabled From Running All Scripts Or Just From Running Them As Root ?

Sep 4, 2009

Is suid disabled from running all home made bash scripts or just from running them as root or:

Who would know for sure.

I googled several combinations of Mandriva Linux how-to suid disabled setUID etc... so far all I found was "many distributions are disabling suid for security reasons" nothing specific.

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General :: Running Shell Program On Startup As Root In Terminal

Aug 4, 2010

I am running Linux Mint 9..I play xbox live and run it through my laptops wireless network connection so i dont have to pay 100 dollars for the usb wireless adapter for the xbox. In windows 7 this is easy to configure so that when i turn my laptop on and then xbox it automatically connects.

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Software :: Change A Process Running In Root-user To Non-root User ?

Oct 28, 2009

Is It possible to change a process running in root-user to non-root-user by setting suid / uid / euid / gid etc... I so please instruct how, when and wat to set in order to change a process running in root-user to non-root user

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General :: "Root Partition WARNING" Running Nagios On CentOS

Jun 6, 2011

I am running Nagios on CentOS. Everything is working fine, all my clients status is ok. One thing which is confusing me is "Root Partition WARNING" on my own server which has Nagios installed. I think that these things are controlled by nrpe, which is installed in clients servers. what i want to know is how i manage my own server, in which config files i have to make changes?

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Fedora :: Running Something As Root From An Icon?

Nov 13, 2010

I have some software that I need to run as root, I know I can open a terminal and su etc. if I was going to stay there to control it, that would be fine, but as the software is graphical, I would like to click it's icon, be prompted for the root password, then have it start.

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Ubuntu :: Running Thunar As Root?

Mar 13, 2010

I need to have root permissions to move files onto a said device. How do I run thunar with such permissions?

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Ubuntu :: After Running Nautilus As Root

Oct 18, 2010

In maverick, I made a menu shortcut to be able to run nautilus as root (gksu nautilus), when I need to (for example, to clean the /var/apt/archives or anything like that).When I used this in intrepid, karmic or lucid, this worked fine.In maverick, when I do so, I always afterwards have the gnome desktop of root and still the rights of root outside nautilus. I have to logoff and re-login as my user to see my personal background and gnome environment again.

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Ubuntu :: Running Cron As Root?

Jun 25, 2011

I have an external usb hard drive that spins down every 10 min. The commands in 'hdparm' do nothing to override the internal settings. So, I wrote a script to touch a file every 5 minutes, and it will run as root because of the mount command, and I want it to run for every user. The script is executable, owned by root, and root is the group, with 755 permissions.

no_sleep.sh in /usr/sbin:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Script to keep external drive from spinning down
diskmounted=$(mount | grep Backup | wc -c)

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Ubuntu :: Running Bleachbit As Root?

Jul 20, 2011

I like cleaning up my install with Bleachbit. I see that when you install it, it also install Bleachbit as root. What is the difference between this and the user version and is it safe to use it as root? I am assuming it cleans up stuff on a deeper level but have always wondered about how safe it would be to use.

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Red Hat / Fedora :: Running A Script As Root?

Jul 23, 2010

I'd like to run my Apache start-up script under my own userid and not have to su over to root each time in order to run it. But if I run the script as myself I get errors on the "/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start" portion (which is the 'main' purpose of the script):

(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

I don't care to waste anymore time just now, or spend anymore energy just now trying to resolve *those* problems. The script works fine when I execute it logged in as root (su). I've changed the permissions to 4777 so that *me* running the script that is executed *as root* should work:

ls -l apache_up.sh -rwsrwxrwx. 1 matt matt 1114 Jul 22 16:42 apache_up.sh But it still gives the above errors. I thought changing the sticky bit would work. How do I run this script myself and have it execute the "/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start" command - so that I don't have to su each time?

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Fedora :: Running TeamViewer 5/6 As A Root?

Jan 1, 2011

There is a very simple method to Run TeamViewer as a "root". This can be risky but if any users wants to running TeamViewer 5 and 6 As root then I have written a small article for the same. Requesting you to visit article and let me have some feedback or whatever comments you feel. read this article :- http://blog.ask4itsolutions.com/2011...tu-rhel-cento/ This practical performed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, Ubuntu Desktop Edition, Fedora and CentOS

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Server :: Running Fetchmail As Root?

Apr 27, 2011

I run fetchmail to download all my emails from remote mail server to my linux server.

But every time when i run fetchmail -v i am getting a warning that " Running as root is discouraged"

I just want to know whether it is unsecure to run fetchmail as root user.

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Debian :: Does Firefox Autoupdate If Not Running As Root?

Jun 26, 2015

In Iceweasel, WhatsApp does not properly work, because you can't download images. Oddly, that doesn't happen on Firefox, so I'm considering using it.

As Firefox is not in the repos, I downloaded the tar.bz2 file from Mozilla and uncompressed it at my home. What I don't know is, what will happen when a new version is released? It has the option to autoupdate enabled but... will it be able to do so without root privileges?

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Debian :: Running Admin Commands As Non-root

Apr 4, 2016

I use two separate systems both running Debian 8. On one (my main) I can't do some commands including ping, shutdown and reboot without running them as root user, however on my other system I can ping and reboot as a non-privileged user. The permissions on both systems are the same for /bin/ping and /sbin/systemctl (reboot). I thought at first it was something to do with what groups my main was in, but that doesn't seem to be the gase.

I know I can fix it by setting setuid for both, but my question is why is it different on both machines? Is there a global setting controlling this in /etc or perhaps an icmp setting?

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Fedora :: Sudo Running As Root Instead Of Specified User?

Jan 25, 2010

I have a weird question about the sudoers file. Currently, I am running "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8)".

I edited the sudoers file (via visudo) and added the following:

User_Alias RPTS2 = vtmtest

RPTS2 xxxxx = (jboss) /oracle/app/oracle/apps/rptsd/deploy-jboss/deploy_rpts_jboss.sh

The user (vtmtest) issues the following command

sudo /oracle/app/oracle/apps/rptsd/deploy-jboss/deploy_rpts_jboss.sh

and gets this message:

user vtmtest is not allowed to execute '/oracle/app/oracle/apps/rptsd/deploy-jboss/deploy_rpts_jboss.sh' as root on xxxxx

When I look at the log, I see the following:

Jan 25 14:17:57 xxxxx sudo: vtmtest : command not allowed ; TTY=pts/12 ; PWD=/export/home/vtmtest ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/oracle/app/oracle/apps/rptsd/deploy-jboss/deploy_rpts_jboss.sh

1. Why does sudo try to run as the root user, when I have specified in the command to run as jboss?

2. Do I need to specify anything else so that this command can run as the "jboss" user and not "root"?

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Ubuntu :: Why Is Root Running Out Of Space With 64 GB Free?

Mar 7, 2010

I've been searching the web on this, followed up hints and tips (e.g. URL...) but with no results.I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on 3 disk configuration:
1: 80GB SSD running root with /home mounted to the next disk
2: 250GB HDD where /home lives
3: 250GB backup of disk 2

My system is complaining since just now with:The volume "file system root' has only 640MB od disk space left

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Ubuntu :: What Running Process As Root Actually Means

Apr 8, 2010

I just installed Wine (1.1.3* dev release) and installed Notepad++ (OSS) and Net Meter (Freeware, the latest beta is actually OSS too). I also intend to install a few other things later. The only failure so far is the latest WinSCP So it made me wonder about what running a process/software as "root" actually means. When I use U.S.C or 'apt-get install' to install software on my computer, and type my password, it displays that keyring icon on my systray.

Does this mean I am root at that moment? And how about running wine, the wine processes, and any windows *.exe I'm installing and running? I basically am afraid that I am running all the wine-related stuff as root, even though there is no indication that I at least have elevated privileges. What is/are the worst-case scenario(s) about wine?

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Ubuntu :: What's The Command For Running Natilis As Root

May 7, 2010

What's the command for running natilis as root? What about my natilis spelling?

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Ubuntu Security :: Running WireShark As Root?

Oct 11, 2010

I'm running behind a 2wire NAT Router with only have smtp, www, pop3 open routing to my ubuntu VM server. Network also includes three other ubuntu VM server's and a Desktop. I'm the only one on the network so my question is, what security risk is there running WireShark as root? Because running it under dumpcap is horrible after you quit. It hogs up all the resource to remove the dump.

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Ubuntu :: Command For Running Natilis As Root?

May 10, 2011

What's the command for running natilis as root? What about my natilis spelling?

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Slackware :: Running Root Commands As User?

Nov 7, 2009

After a few hours work I have managed to set up pptd so that my daughter can log into her account at Imperial College. My problem now is that I need to have a script that she can run if she wants to log in. She will have to invoke a couple of root commands and I do not want to give her the root password What she needs to do to set up networking is:

Quote:

pppd call imperial dump debug logfd 2 nodetach require-mppe
/sbin/ip route add default dev ppp0

How can I enable things so that she can run this script as user?

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Debian :: Running Dropbox And GUFW From Root Terminal

Jan 7, 2016

I'm brand new to Linux and perhaps foolishly jumped right into Debian (Jessie). I've managed to get Dropbox downloaded/installed/whatever the proper parlance is, but in order to access it I have to input Code: Select all~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd. When I close the root terminal, Dropbox disappears.There's no icons in the menu. Likewise with GUFW. It might be superfluous since UFW seems to be active whenever I check it through the root terminal. Is there any way to configure Dropbox to start automatically and maintain its status even if the root terminal is closed? I've looked around these forums and the internet in general and not found any similar problems. Also, I installed Spotify but whenever I click the icon nothing happens.

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Fedora Installation :: Running As Root All The Permission Are +xrw And Still Does'nt Working?

Jun 15, 2009

(xcdroast:22631): WARNING **: Failed to access cdrecord. Please check the permissions and ownership of /usr/bin/cdrecordcdrecord is a link to wodim, i'm running as root all the permission are +xrw and still does'nt working

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OpenSUSE :: Warning: Running BOINC As Root User

Apr 19, 2010

I've installed BOINC for first time (from suse repos). I'm worried about running BOINC as root. How can this be avoided? I'd first like to exhaust all options with the official opensuse repo version of BOINC. If I am unsuccessful, then I'll try the version from Berkeley website.

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