So, The UID & GID for the root account are both zero. The fields are separated by : so you can:
Does that give you a starter? Have a look at the cut manual page if you need to slice up the output to give you just the names.
All,
I want to run a non-root script as the root user with non-root environment variables with crontab. The non-root user would have environment variables for database access such as Oracle or Sybase. The root user does not have the Oracle or Sybase enviroment variables. I thought you could do... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a program with the following suid setup
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root other 653 Aug 16 17:00 restart_server
It basically starts up a service that has to be started by root. I just want the normal users to be able to restart the service using the script above.
But when the... (7 Replies)
Hi, yesterday, I changed root's shell in /etc/passwd, cause a mistake then I can not log in root account (can't find correct shell). I attempted to log in single-mode, however, it prompted for single-mode's password then I type root's password but still can not log in.
I'm using AIX 5L version 5.2... (2 Replies)
> 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)
Present
/home/dsadm# id dsadm
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
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needs to be
/home/dsadm> id dsadm
uid=23186(dsadm) gid=16284(gdstage)
Please provide the command/steps for the above uid, gid value change
Thanks in advance for all your support .
... (3 Replies)
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After downloading ZFS documentation from oracle site, I am able to successfully migrate UFS root FS without zones to ZFS root FS. But in case of UFS root file system with zones , I am successfully able to migrate global zone to zfs root file system but zone are still in UFS root file... (2 Replies)
Hi Unix Gurus .
I have requirement where in which - I would like create duplicate root equivalent account with all the privileges equal to root. Is it possible to create this duplicate account with different UID. ?
this id i would like give it to my teams - who does multiple activities using... (2 Replies)
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I have a strange problem on one my my AIX machines. We have created a user called testroot with the same UID as root (uid=0) by changing the uid of that user in the /etc/passwd file. I know that this is a security breach but this is a test system.
Now the strange thing that happens is that... (3 Replies)
I would like to get an opinion for my solution for this task and get feedback about better approach or mistakes I have made.
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
The task is to create a script which prints information about users whose names are specified in the... (2 Replies)