i have edited /etc/rc.local and i can add the command 'deluged' and it runs just fine but i need it to run under my username but when i change it to 'sudo -u sean deluged' it doesnt run deluge at startup. whats even weirder is if i run this command 'sudo sh /etc/rc.local' it runs deluge as seanjust like its supposed to.
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I have a question that i want to make a normal user to execute the commands which the root user is able to execute, say if i have a user named siru and when i logged in using siru i cannot run commands like tracert,nmap@loccalhost and all but i can run when i have logged into root account so my question is how to make siru to run the command tracert,nmap@localhost.I have even edited the .bash_profile of siru's home directory from
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
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Take a physical user FRED. FRED is a linux user ( known by linux on his laptop ) FRED is a Samba user ( Known by samba on the samba pdc server ) When he logs locally (with username/password) on its standalone laptop (with no network), he is known as FRED:user. He access his data in /home/FRED/. When he logs through samba (with username/password) on the domain MY_DOM, he is known as MY_DOMFRED:MY_DOMdomain user. He access his data in /home/MY_DOM/FRED/. ) Is it possible that the human FRED has only one repository and have full access to its repository regardless of how it was connected. If yes, how to do it
2) If not, Is it possible that the human FRED has full access to /home/FRED/.............. and /home/MY_DOM/FRED/.
I want to turn off CPU throttling, and I notice how each time opensuse boots up, it imposes it.
I would like to know where it does this. I suspect - but actually I don't really know - if it's the HAL daemon that does this. Could be.
In any case, rather than have to key it in each time, I put the relevant commands (cpufreq-set) in boot.local. No effect.
I suspect boot.local might not be the best place for such a heavy duty command like this one.
Are there any there places I could put it so that it executes automatically?
How would you make NIS user information override local user information on client systems? This is what I think is right? Add nis on the passwd registration file on the second line Is this correct?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am running RHEL release 4 (Nahant Update 6). I currently have a fax server that has been encountering issues recently after hours. My boss would like our helpdesk to monitor the status of these modems throughout their shift. This has led to a request for a helpdesk account to be created on our linux box that only has access to a few commands. Is there a way to limit the new user to only have access to the following commands?
cd
less
cat
Additionally I would like to create a script for them to run that would chmod our modems when necessary since their permissions reset after a power cycle. BUT not give them access to the chmod command, just chmod through that script for those specific devices.
I want to see the users list and the permissions of the users when i logged in a root and how to change the permissions of the users. 2.How to change the permissions for the commands. example:when i logged with my other user account(not with root user) i dont have a permission to use the move(mv) command. #mv filename /backup my error : Permission denied. I need to know how we can set the permissions for the commands even.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have a linux server, the Operating system is SUZE 9 but i need to see all commands executed by any users connected on the server and the ip of the host in a log file.the history file does not contain all info that i need .please is there a way to write a script in order to save this problem .
View 2 Replies View RelatedHere is my scenario, I want to create about 3 groups of users:
--Admins-create and manage users
--Support1-Restart basic stack apps(httpd, mysql etc)
--Support2 Backups
So in my sudoers file i have managed to set them all up to perform the tasks above. However, I want to limit the users in the specific groups from running commands from other groups. eg a user in admins shouldnt be able to restart the stack applications etc. I have tried using the ! to create an exception eg !/etc/init.d/httpd start for the users but its not working.
i've query regarding, user creation in Linux( RHEL 5), i.e, i've created a user ([root@localhost ~]#useradd slash ) and switched into that user, but am not able to run commands in it......It's displaying a message saying, PERMISSION DENIED. Do we need to provide any permissions while creating a user
View 7 Replies View RelatedCustomer asked me to create a menu for linux he also asked me to do this: Open like a command like where a user can execute commands...so for this the users have sudo enabled. The code below works OK. But it has an issue when a command is executed but the command does not need sudo
Like for instance
Code:
cd /
sudo: cd: command not found
How can I allow a user to execute all commands when a command does not need sudo
Code:
echo -e "Press Control+C to finish"
#echo -e " "
while true;
do
read whichcmd?"Insert Command: "
sudo $whichcmd
done
Senario is we have a system where root has authorised keys set up so that it can do a passwordless ssh to $WORKSTATION. I then need to run a script on $WORKSTATION as user "bob" and NOT as user "root". I do not want to set up user "bob" to be allowed passwordless ssh so any ideas how I can do this?I have tried variations of (as user "root"):ssh $WORKSTATION "su - bob; ./my_script"
View 5 Replies View RelatedAfter 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?
How to allow access to some commands having root privleges to be run by non root user. I am new to unix/linux and I have a major assignment. I have to find ways to run particular commands which can be run only by root from a non root user. I know sudo is one of the way but i need some different approach.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am trying to write one script. Purpose of my script is that it will login to particular user and it will execute some set of commands.What I was trying....
#!/bin/bash
su - tom
ls -lrt
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I did some digging on the sudo command and I do know the config file is /etc/sudoers Read the manual for sudoers and found out that I must use visudo to edit the file I read some of the examples at the bottom of the file and tried entering my own account in following the example. one of the commands I was trying to allow my account to perform without root login is the mount command So I tried adding this in (kreid8 /bin/mount ALL) I then saved & exited the file and logged out of root and tried sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media. I got an error saying I had to be root in order to do that But when I use the visudo -l option it shows that I have that privellege. Did I edit the file incorrectly?
View 6 Replies View RelatedTrying to add my wife as a user to my computer, only to log on through SSH, not locally. Only problem is I use keys for logging in.
I've gone through the guide on the ubuntu website, created a key, copied to through a pen drive, put it in her .ssh folder on my computer, but it still comes up with the error:
Code:
Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.
Permission denied (publickey).
Is there a group I need to add her to, or add her public key to a different file somewhere?
My current script is as followed:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
su et
cd "media/ET"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:.
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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.
I've had a server setup working perfectly for the last 2 years. Today we installed a newer version of postgresql and recompiled apache/php.
Postgresql will not start now.
"service postgresql start" = /var/lib/pgsql/data is missing. Use "service postgresql initdb" to initialize the cluster first. To initdb we need to be as user postgres.
"su - postgres" = "no file or directory"
In /etc/passwd = postgres:x:26:26:PostgreSQL Server:/var/lib/pgsql:/bin/bash
how i can login as postgres user and enter these commands?
I was looking at some Vim plugins, and I installed one called Abolish. The page from where I got it [URL] only says:
install details
Extract in ~/.vim or ~vimfiles
So I extracted it in ~/.vim. Now, the issue is that, if I edit a file as root, I am able to use the commands; however, when I edit a file as a normal user, these commands won't work. So... could this be a permissions issue? Or should I copy the plugin in some other directory, maybe?
I am trying to login to a redhat server via VNC. This used to work until I reloaded the box. Although I had previously logged in directly to the box, then I could vnc to it remotely. The service is running, netstat states the ports are open and listening.I can ssh to the box, and ran the usual commands to start the services.So my question is. Do I need to have a local user logged in before I can VNC, if so how can I do that via the command line.If this is not required for a local user to be logged in, what am I missing. Other than VNC, which other services do I need to start.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI want to setup a folder (several really) for websites that use PHP.
I am running Linux Ubuntu with PHP, APACHE installed.
The Apache server works in Firefox as 127.0.1.1 no problem.
The default directory is (DocumentRoot) /var/www This is stored in a file called /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
PHP executes no problem, if it is in the default directory (/var/www).
However, I'd like to activate PHP in a folder on another hard-drive (also).
In that folder I'd like to store several websites, all which will use PHP and MYSQL.
The problem is, my boot drive where /var/www currently is located has only 2 gig of space (21 gig for operating system, which seems high).
PHP files in the other hard drive do not execute, even under APACHE server.
How can I safely change the PHP enabled folder? How can I add more folders, without erasing the current one?
I'm having a bit of a problem after joining Ubuntu 9.04 to my company's Windows Domain. I can log in and use sudo just fine but I don't have access to certain things in my menu (i.e. "Add/Remove Software") and I can't open the User Manager. I manually edited the /etc/group file as root and added my username (username@domain) to the appropriate groups but still no luck.
View 2 Replies View RelatedShouldn't this command work "out-of-the-box"? mail -s test JJ
JJ is a valid local user, in fact, It's MY username. It doesn't work from root account either... However, from my login mail -s test root DOES work but mail -s test JJ from root does NOT.
My username is NOT in the /etc/aliases file. But I've tried jj: jj and that bombs. I also tried JJ: JJ and that bombs too. I ran newaliases after each edit too.
I've done some digging around (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/, http://docs.fedoraproject.org/, http://fedoraproject.org, http://forums.fedoraforum.org ) and made some changes trying to get it to work, I either get a dead.letter or a /var/log/maillog entry (error)
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I recently installed FC14 as my server and is able to ssh and vnc into the server when locally logged in. If i logged out (at login screen) then i cant ssh or vnc into the server. It is pointless to have a server if i am not able to remote in via ssh and vnc.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a Linux host connected via LAN to Internet. No proxy or squid is used on the host and outgoing traffic to Internet is not limited. I have several local users on this box. Recently bandwidth statistics on the switch/router showed increase in the Internet traffic from this host. How do I monitor the traffic utilization per local user on Linux host? I want to be able to monitor the amount of traffic per port and per user, like user alice downloaded 20GB today via port 22, and so on. Do not offer to use Squid, this is not just web traffic I want to monirot but all amount of incoming/outgoing traffic per user per port.
View 3 Replies View Relatedfor some reason the password just won't change, maybe I have the command wrong? Here is what I am doing and the error.
[root@server~]# useradd testuser
[root@server~]# passwd testuser
Changing password for user support.
passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service
Is possible to send a message (popup window or something) to local user logged into X (xdm, fluxbox) from console ? For example: user1 is logged and using X/fluxbox, user2 logging into the same box by ssh to console. Now - what user2 have to do to send message to user1 ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to figure out a way to pull the user information from local users on a Linux server. I have approximately 40 servers running SUSE and Ubuntu that are using Microsoft Active Directory in order to authenticate. Our internal auditing group has made us disable root ssh ability, I was doing this with clusterssh, but I can login as me then su on the server to conduct root, admin, work. This is an ongoing request to get the local users and it is a painfully slow process since I have to login to each server to get the /etc/passwd file. Is there another way to get the local user information? They are now asking about seeing the last logon date or if the account is disabled, any thoughts there as well?Most of our auditors think Windows and I am trying to make my life easier but not sure what options I have. I need to get local accounts and if they are active or disabled plus last logon date. I'm sure there will be more but if I can get the basics adding more shouldn't be too difficult but I guess I'll cross that bride when I get there.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm new to SUSE Linux 10 and I am having a problem with a local user account. Here is the scenario,Logged in successfully to a putty session as the "user" and try to change the password :
passwd "user"
(current) UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication failure
I am unable to change the password as the user but i am able to log into the server with the same user.
