Inspite of having 755 permissions on the chown command, it seems the command can be executed by the root only. I was under the impression that the 'x' permission for 'others' can give executable rights to the normal user too, which does not seem to be the case here. Just curious to know, if not the file perms itself, what controls the execution of the command?
View 6 RepliesI want to get a of log all the commands executed by the root user with the following details :
incoming ip
username (thru which su was executed)
time and date
all the commands executed as mentioned above.
Also if user has managed to login as root, he should not be able to disable / delete the above info. Can this info be collected at some other physical server ?
How do I add root permissions to my user account?
I want full permissions for all computers in my house, without having to get up and go to the other room and change permissions for the file, folder, drive, directory, computer, etc., then go back to the other room again.
I just created a partition, as THIS user, THIS machine, rebooted, and cannot create a folder on the partition I just created. UGH. No more of this stuff... I guess at the very least, I'll still have to log onto each machine for this?
vsftpd 2.3.2-3After user uploaded a file it has -rw-------(0600) permissions. Of course user can change permissions manualy to any he likeBut how to set for example 0700 by default?
View 1 Replies View Relatedwell, by mistake i ran a command and chown the whole server apache:apache
now, i can't do anything... is there a way to restore the original permissions??
I have recently secured a server by preventing root from logging in via SSH. Now I log in with a non-root account and use 'su' when necessary.However, now I can't do something I used to do, which is open 'sftp://user@ipaddress' in nautilus and be able to edit files as root. Is there anyway to get nautilus to give me root permissions on the server? Or at least end up with root permissions in a GUI text editor on my computer? I don't mind if I have to use bash to start the process, once I can get a GUI for editing files.
Note 1: Yes, I realize I could ssh in and use nano/vi etc, but I'd rather use my graphical text editor.
Note 2: The server does not run X, so I can't just forward it.
I tried
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chown -R owner:group *
which does not work on the invisible directories (why?). When I used ".*" as wildcard it changed all (visible) files including the parent directory (the one I was currently working in which is the "dot") . I can change the invisible directories owner and group using dophin but how is it done from the command line?
I want to be able to use Ctrl+R to have reverse-i search. Also if I press Shift+Up Arrow after typing the first few characters of a recently executed command then the shell should complete the command by finding the most recent commmand having the same first few characters.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am currently responsible for administering a shared Ubuntu machine with several unrelated users. Some of these users own multiple accounts and would like to "chown" files between them. Currently, I must handle such requests manually, and this is inconvenient.
I am looking for a way to allow non-root users to chown files with authentication (i.e. prompt for the password of the user to which ownership is being set to). This would prevent an exploit such as:
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cp /bin/bash ~/sudobash
chmod 4777 ~/sudobash
chown root:root ~/sudobash
Does such a solution exist?
My home/container has me as the owner but the contents all belong to root...I've tried >chown cbjhawks /home/cbjhawks but that didn't change anything. Should it be >chown -R cbjhawks /home/cbjhawks? Or what is the proper command for doing this...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a samba share that I mount locally at boot through fstab. The share is writable and if I access the share directly, say with konqueror and smb (smb://hostname/sharename) then I can do anything I want (create, write, delete, edit, files/directories). I have a mount point on my local machine
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/shares/mp3
and I (username dtest) was unable to do anything except read files and create directories trying to do them to the local mountpoint except as root. I figured it would be a matter of
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chown -R dtest /shares/mp3
but I was unable to do that even as root, I kept getting permission denied. When I did
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ls -alt /shares/ it told me the owner was 1000 and the group was root. Dtest was already a member of the root group and I was able to
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chmod -R 774
as root but I still couldn't do anything except read and create directories directly via the mountpoint. Ultimately I solved this by changing the uid of user dtest via kuser and then just chowning my home directory back to dtest. It seems like as root I should be able to change the owner of the directory. I know it's because this is a samba share, but it doesn't make any sense why root couldn't just chown it. Is there another way to change the owner of a directory, or is this set by the machine hosting the samba share?
I've been having some trouble with the notifications on 10.04.Networking and volume popups are visible, but messages from Banshee or empathy aren't showing.
I tried the command notify-send in the terminal, but it showed nothing, unless when doing it as root.
fix or a setting to tweak in order to get full notifications back?
The actual file didn't exist. I am confident it came through a site but I am more curious what settings in apache affect the ability to do this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've firewall machine customers connect on it then connect to one of another 3 machines as root through ssh key , is there any way to know which user connect to which machine and what command that he has executed without using script command ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI ran a command chown apache:apache / and just about everything... i wanted to do it on a directory but it did it on complete server.
i unable to login to phpmyadmin and even all the databses are empty. any tips on how can i solve this.
I set up a samba server on my Linux box for the purpose of allowing everyone - and I mean everyone - on my LAN network to be able to put files to one folder... The only issue seems to be not having write permissions to the target folder.
Question, re-stated: How do I set the permissions for an entire directory to not require anyone to have a login? I have tried many things, such as "chown -aR /data/public", but I still cannot seem to find the magic words.
I've setup dimdim (opensource, centos 5.3) and noticed yum & rpm commands fail when executed as root because it uses librpmio from openoffice3 instead of /usr/lib (I'm running from memory so I may have misstyped). But sudo doesn't have this problem.
How can root's search path be different, especially after I state /usr & /usr/lib at the top of /etc/ld.so.conf.
I have recently installed Fedora 14 on a new computer we presented as a gift to my sister-in-law. She is new to Linux. Although I've used Fedora since Core 1, I'm no expert on security issues, and this baffles me. She's doesn't know how to change the root password, so why doesn't it work any more? She discovered the problem when attempting a yum update from a terminal.(1) How could the root password have gotten changed? How likely is it that someone got onto her system through ssh, made a lucky guess on her root password, and then changed it? Are there robots that do this?
(2) The firewall is enabled. I have it set up as follows: (a) under "Trusted Services," only ssh is checked (I need to be able to get in remotely this way); (b) under "Trusted Interfaces," I have eth0 checked (I need to be able to use VNConto her desktop).Question: Are these settings giving ample protection? What settings would be recommended to protect her system while at the same time allowing me to access it through ssh and VNC?
When I run the following command from my macbook to my ubuntu server the terminal does not get released. It just sits there until I Control-C the command.
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ssh user@my-server 'sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start'
When i login and then run the command everything works fine.
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ssh user@my-server
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
[Code]....
Currently we are using Unix machine & the activity are logged in the file using following code used in profile
.profile code
# /ln/aud_root/dds_ibm/.profile
trap 'print "not allowed"' INT
trap 'print "not allowed"' QUIT
trap 'print "not allowed"' TSTP
[Code].....
I have a read command in the following script, but it does not get executed when I run the script. What's wrong with the read statement?
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View 3 Replies View Relatedwhat is the tool to get the history inclduing the user name,command time and from which file/folder the command is executed.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to use PROMPT_COMMAND variable to build a history of all the commands i execute. So Basically i want to append the last executed command to my own command log file. How can i find the last executed command ?
I want to add PROMPT_COMMAND="echo $last_executed_command >> my_command_log" But I am not sure how to find the last executed command
Here is my script for at command. The intention is to get itself executed every minute.
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logfile=/tmp/attest.log
loginterval=1
[code]....
I use KeePass2 to access username/password information in a Dropbox file. This allows convenient access from multiple devices. I can't seem to copy a password to the clipboard on my Linux 2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.x86_64 system, however, in order to supply the password to a prompt in an xterm(1). I've tried both Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V and highlighting and mouse button 2 clicking. The KeePass2 program on the Linux system is executed by Mono.
How can I copy the password to the xterm(1)?
[Aside: I think we need a "KeePass" tag.]
I am working on Ubuntu 9.10.Since last two days there is issue while working with Terminal.Whenever I type a command and press enter it doesnt do anything. command is not executed. I guess its in loop. when I press Ctrl+C then it comes out of loop. this happens with all commands and I am not sure what is the problem.I have reinstalled Terminal but it did not worked.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have one distro installed, LILO as the boot loader, and i wonder if it's possible to duplicate the lilo entries with an option which executes some script or command during, or after the boot.Actually, i installed a Slackware + autolaunching virtual machine, but i have two VM, so i need to autolaunch one of them. May i choose it from the very beginning ?
View 9 Replies View RelatedAccidentally I changed the ownership of all the directories under / to my own instead of root:root. Now I am unable to use sudo and many bad things are happening. Is there a way to revert the changes or change the permissions again to root:root or make sudo work ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was trying to edit some files in /usr . so I did "chown -R username /usr" as root . after editing, I did "chown -R root /usr" !!!!! it made me unable to open Yast and VirtualBox and many other features and applications . is there anyway to fix this ? I think some files in /usr was not owned by root,
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