I have an existing quota setup which works fine for 2 users.
Say I want to add a new user, user3. Why is using "edquota -u user3" alone insufficient? Do I need to run quotacheck after running edquota for the new user?
I know what are hard and soft limits, but what means "blocks" column in edquota utility?
View 1 Replies View RelatedConfigured for test purpose, a NIS-client and working. Yet playing around with 'quota'-
--after editing /etc/fstab
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,quota 1 2
--followed by
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I am writing a simple application that will run as user foo (i.e. Ubuntu user foo).However, the application will connect to my database as (database user foobar). IIRC, database users have nothing to do with Linux system users - but I just need to clarify that.So can an app launched to run as user 'foo', connect to a database as user 'foobar'?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I run the ps -efH command to list out all the process, I can see Apache running as root and seems to have sub-processes running as www-data. Here's the excerpt:
root 30117 1 0 09:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 30119 30117 0 09:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 30120 30117 0 09:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
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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...
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to get the end result to have the same format as this as well:
1 bin
2 daemon
67 erozner
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Where the numbers are the number of processes being run by the user (the name right next to it).if I input the command egrep myFile into the terminal, it should look for every line with the letter x in myFile, right?
My current script is as followed:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
su et
cd "media/ET"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:.
[code]....
I want ET to be run as the user "et" and for some reason, I can't directly su/sudo to run the file without being in the user "et" and the "/media/ET" directory.
Are there any tools to view/edit user space memory of running processes on Linux?
It would be a great learning tool.
I am currently struggling with one of my tasks.I was asked to find a way how to determine how much time an _already running_ process is spending in user and kernel space.E.G. <some tool> <pid>[Control] + [c]<pid> spent 12.1 seconds in user and 1.52 seconds in kernel space.Does something like this exist? Basically I guess I am looking for something similar to time, except that the process is already running.So..a) Is there a tool which fulfills this task?b) Is there a way to write your own software which does the job? Is it even possible to code something I am looking for?I recently found strace -c -p <pid>, but well, this is not exactly what I was looking for.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs It possible to change a process running in root-user to non-root-user by setting suid / uid / euid / gid etc... I so please instruct how, when and wat to set in order to change a process running in root-user to non-root user
View 4 Replies View RelatedIn Karmic, I could run an app as user gdm by issuing the following command (assume the app is gconf-editor)
Code:
gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gconf-editor
Now that I've switched to Marverick when I issu the same command I get this:
Code:
towheed@GA1A4CH:~$ gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gconf-editor
No protocol specifiedNo protocol specified
** (gconf-editor:19812): CRITICAL **: Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:
I checked my environment variable DISPLAY using:
Code:
towheed@GA1A4CH:~$ echo $DISPLAY
and it returned:
Code:
:0.0
Now I ran the command:
Code:
gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gconf-editor --display=:0.0
and got the same error as before.Has either or both dbus-launch or gksudo changed their behavior os is this a bug. Note that the command does not work with any applications being run as the user gdm.
Let's say 4 users have logged in on 4 different Virtual Consoles:tty1 .... tty4On tty4 is logged in User4.How can I log out the User4 from my console using the root login?I just checked out the man page of shutdown but didn't find any hint there. The logout command is also not doing the work. We cannot specify a username wit it to log him/her out.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI 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"?
I'm a web developer and I make plug-ins for various shopping cart softwares on demand. because of this I'm constantly installing carts and then immediately updating them/modifying them. The problem I'm having is that I'm having to update the permissions manually all the time (every time I copy a new cart into the /var/www folder). Instead of doing this I'd like apache2 to run under my user, so I don't ever have to update the permissions again. How do I do this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to create Guest user in ubuntu 10.04 and when I log out from Guest user or turn of computer, it will not save anything.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi am using Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. i only ever contact my ubuntu machine through SSH. everytime i login, i do:
~/downloads/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &
this launches the dropbox process and all is great. except when i log back into the ubuntu machine via ssh after a few hours, the process no longer exists. how can i get the process to run indefinitely?
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?
I find myself in a bit of a pickle. Following a yum update which included FF 3.0.8 FireFox stopped working details can be found in Fedora Bug 494255. To keep going I installed FireFox (from Mozilla) in /home/user/firefox which works great now I've installed all the i386 stuff it wanted, I've got all my bookmarks, saved passwords etc BUT I can't get flash to work. I figured all I needed to do was put a link to libflashplayer.so in /home/user/firefox/plugins/ and we'd be good but when I go to a site with flash content FF crashes. I installed Leigh 123s X86-64 flash rpm and made a link to it as above and got the same result.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to restrict user from running certain application with wine? Something like white or blak lists?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'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.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI've written an article on my site which lays out steps for installing Wine and running it under its own, separate user account, so that Windows applications cannot access personal files (particularly those in your home directory).[URL}..i'm hoping that there are people on this forum who know Ubuntu inside-out, as I'd like to know how effective the described method is at trapping Windows applications so that they cannot read or write personal files or directories.
The way I understand it, once the process is running under user account wine, it's stuck with the access privileges of user wine. But are there ways in which a rogue application could break out of this prison and gain access to whatever it wishes? I'm guessing that such behaviour would mean someone customising Windows software to recognise Linux, and that such a thing is very unlikely, but I'm still interested to hear what gurus of the Ubuntu internals think of this method.
is there any possible way to hide currently running processes from an user? This means I do not want him to know about what programs/processes does any other user but him run. In short words if that user runs 'ps -aux' he should get only his processes.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to start an Oracle Integration server as user "oracle" at system startup and my approach was to place a couple of lines in /etc/rc.localsu oracle/home/oracle/startallSomething is not quite right about this as it seems to leave some processes owned by root.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to get Apache to run in a user's home directory. I changed the conf file so that Apache runs under the user and group "kiosk" and changed the DocumentRoot and Directory from the default to "/home/kiosk". Then I set Apache to start at boot (chkconfig --level 235 httpd on) and rebooted. When I checked, httpd is running as kiosk like it should (ps aux | grep httpd). However, when I try wget localhost, I get a 403 response back. If as root I call "httpd -k stop" and then "httpd -k start", then everything works exactly as it should (curiously, if I try using "-k restart", it still doesn't work). After this, httpd still shows as running as kiosk and if I check before calling start, it shows no httpd processes running as expected.
This only happens when I use httpd to stop and then start the web server. If I try to restart using apachectl I still get a 403 error. As an interesting aside, after I've used httpd, if I try using "apachectl restart" I get a "(13)Permission denied: Error retrieving pid file run/httpd.pid" error. This is all on a freshly installed CentOS 5.5 server. Why I'm seeing this very different behaviour from what I thought were just equivalent ways of starting Apache? And then what I could do to get it to start up and run properly on boot? One last item to mention is this isn't a permissions problem. I set the permissions to 777 to both the home and kiosk directories (and 666 to the web files) just to be sure that's not the problem.
Take a simple requires-root option, such as:
Code:
[Leo@chessman ~]$ cat /etc/shadow
cat: /etc/shadow: Permission denied
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When I run set | less as a user, my root password is displayed in the last line of rules.
Code:
_=su
*******<-----Root Password.
[code]...
i googled around and finally stumbled over this forum. I've been wondering, how would i kill an process running from an folder and with user parameter? I usually type this into the ssh console: pkill -9 < process > -U < username >
But i want users be able to run it multiple times, and killing only an specific process and not every single one.
I need to run a script (which requires root privileges) on login per-user only. I want this to runtomatically so I'll add an appropriate line to .profile.A couple of questions:1 The easiest way I can think of to run the script as root is to setuid, but I know there are security concerns. Is there a better way
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want to run a Web service that performs a lengthy calculation for the customer. If I let PHP perform the calculation, the script gets killed by server timeout. So I figured out it should initiate a batch job.However, the HTTP server process cannot initiate a batch job because user wwwrun is denied access to service at. Why is that so, and is it safe to remove this denial?
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