Hi All,
I am using sftp to transfer files between two unix machines. As per my knowledge, in order to use public key authentication, the remote user's home directory permission should be set to 750 ( basically group and others should not have write permission ). Is there any way to over ride... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I've created solaris user which has both FTP and SFTP Access. Using the "ftpaccess" configuration file options "guest-root" and "restricted-uid", i can restrict the user to a specific directory. But I'm unable to restrict the user when the user is logged in using SFTP.
The aim is to... (1 Reply)
RHEL5.0
As we know, when root create a new user, a new home directory will be created : /home/user
I want to know what determine the access permission of /home/user .
Thanks! (1 Reply)
Hi
i am new to this admin area .
i have created user with name as "ab" and gave home dir as /home/ab .
when i tried to create the /home/ab dir , i got he following error.
"mkdir: Failed to make directory "/home/ab"; Operation not applicable
"
Thanks in advance . (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a bit of a headache with a server doing some rather mysterious yet static changes to permissions in /home. The server in question is a FreeBSD server. It's an older beast with quite a few custom tweaks and now I'm stuck with it :-)
The problem is that some of the directories in... (2 Replies)
for incompatibility installation problems, I've decided to reinstall Centos 6.3
as can be seem from the df output, I've partitioned both / and and /home directories
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 12G 5.3G 6.5G 45% /
tmpfs ... (2 Replies)
Hi.
My example:
I have a filesystem /log. Everyday, log files are copied to /log. I'd like to set owner and permission for files and directories in /log like that
chown -R log_adm /log/*
chmod -R 544 /log/*It's OK, but just at that time. When a new log file or new directory is created in /log,... (8 Replies)
Hello,
I've just started using a Solaris machine with SunOS 5.10.
After the machine is turned on, I open a Console window and at the prompt, if I execute a pwd command, it tells me I'm at my home directory (someone configured "myuser" as default user after init).
... (2 Replies)
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mknetid
MKNETID(8) Reference Manual MKNETID(8)NAME
mknetid - generate data for netid map
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/yp/mknetid [ -q ] [ -h hosts ] [ -p passwd ] [ -g group ] [ -d domain ] [ -n netid ]
/usr/lib/yp/mknetid --version
DESCRIPTION
mknetid generates the netid.byname NIS map from the contents of the group(5), passwd(5), hosts(5) and netid files. It checks for multiple
entrys of netids and warn for them or filters them out. It is only called by /var/yp/Makefile when rebuilding the NIS map.
OPTIONS -q This flag turns on 'quiet' mode, don't print a warning message when finding an duplicate netid entry.
-h hosts
The -h flag can be used to specify the use of another hosts file than the default /etc/hosts.
-p passwd
The -p flag can be used to specify the use of another passwd file than the default /etc/passwd.
-g group
The -g flag can be used to specify the use of another group file than the default /etc/group.
-n netid
The -n flag can be used to specify the use of another netid file than the default /etc/netid.
-d domain
The mknetid command uses the system domainname by default. If it is not set or you whish to override it, you must use the -d parame-
ter.
--version
Prints the version number
FILES
/etc/group groups file
/etc/hosts hosts database
/etc/netid netname database
/etc/passwd password file
SEE ALSO passwd(8), group(5), hosts(5), passwd(5)AUTHOR
mknetid was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.
YP Server August 2001 MKNETID(8)