SuSE-11 Ownership of files having root got changed
Hi Experts,
I have create a new user with uid and gid as 0 in SuSE-11 Server. After that all the files having root owner ship are showing as new user name as owner. If I login as root, and type 'id' command, it also shows the new user.
Sample output from my server.
How can I change it back to root ? I need the new user as is, because it is used by a monitoring tool.
Hi All,
I have changed the shell of the root accidentally to /sbin/bash :mad:
How do I change that? :(
To change that I need to go to ok prompt I think, and there I need to mount the root file system in order to make changes to the respective file.
Can any one please suggest how do I do... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem with a Unix server we do not adminster but have an application running on.
The problem is that overnight, files in the /user4/work directory revert to root ownership. This causes problems as we cannot process the files.
1) What would be causing files to revert to root... (1 Reply)
Hello all:
I have a couple of boxes located in New York, both running SunOS 5.6. I, unfortunately, am located in Pittsburgh and do not have console access to these boxes. A co-worker was attempting to build a user account in one of these boxes, and mistakenly did a: chown username *
... (5 Replies)
The group of the /root folder has been changed and then logged out
I am not able to log in to the /root user as it is saying Xsession log in not allowed
Is there any way that the group of the /root folder be changed? (1 Reply)
> id root
0(root) 1(other)
From CIS scanning result"it should make sure the root's gid is equal to 0", so I don't know what's the impact for that change to whole system? BTW, why is there a group named other under solaris? what does group "other" do ?
Thanks very much! (3 Replies)
Hi.
I've had a little mishap.
To cut a long story short, I've accidentally recursively ran chown on a directory (actually a bunch of 'em). Not a problem in itself, but I had a slight error in the code I used to get the list of directories and ended up with a comment in the file ownership.
... (15 Replies)
Hi,
I was carrying out some simple admin tasks setting up a user, logged in as root when I fumbled on the keyboard. It appears I typed
cp * ../user/<esc><esc>I hit return and now the display has set to a strange array of symbols
e.g.
¼Ùïõò §ÏÅÎÓÓȧ ãïîîåãôéïî èáó ôåòíéîáôåä
I've tried looking at the... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I have to work in the late nights some times for server maintenance and in a hurry to complete I am accidentally changing ownership or permission of directories :(
which have similar names ( /var in root and var of some other directory ).:confused:
Can some one suggest me with the... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Accidentally changed ownership of /var directory as root :eek: thinking that I am changing ownership of var directory in other location in the file system:D.Now unable to SSH into the server:(.
By gods grace I was able to regain the access again as server was in control of me at that... (5 Replies)
Hello
i am running AIX 6.1. i recently changed the root password using passwd and pwdadm. while the new password works fine, i am still able to login using the old password. is there anyway this can disabled\fixed
thanks (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
mkproto
MKPROTO(1) General Commands Manual MKPROTO(1)NAME
mkproto - create a MINIX prototype file
SYNOPSIS
mkproto [-b n] [-d str] [-g n] [-i n] [-p nnn] [-s] [-t root] [-u n] source_directory [prototype_file]
OPTIONS -b Number of blocks in the prototype is n
-d Indent the prototype file using str instead of tab
-g Use n as the gid for all files and directories
-i Number of i-nodes in the prototype is n
-p Use nnn (3 octal digits) as the protection mode
-s Use the same uid, gid and mode as the source files have
-t Use the string root as the path prefix for every file
-u Use n as the uid for all files and directories
EXAMPLES
mkproto -b360 # Make a 360K prototype of this directory
mkproto -u2 -g1 -p644
# Give all files uid 2, gid 1 and mode 644
DESCRIPTION
Mkproto creates an mkfs prototype file for the specified source-directory. The prototype file is either written to stdout or, if speci-
fied, the proto-file.
SEE ALSO mkfs(1).
MKPROTO(1)