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1. Infrastructure Monitoring
Hi guys,
I am currently managing an application running on around 150 servers.
I only have application usage rights on those servers and do not have any root privileges.
I have an external node that can connect to those servers and I have root privileges on that one box.
I want to setup... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Junaid Subhani
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I had a question in my test which asked where suppose user B has a program with 's' bit set. Can user A run this program and gain root privileges in any way?
I suppose not as the suid program run with privileges of owner and this program will run with B's privileges and not root. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: syncmaster
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3. HP-UX
hi,
i am new in hp ux and i must create a user with root privileges and so i disable ssh connection from root login.
thanks.. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: eliste
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4. Solaris
Hello
I am a new (and only) administrator of a Solaris 10 environment. The previous admin gave me a use (say user123) that is supposed to have administrative privileges.
Now the problem is, the user does not have this privilege! Here is what i tried so far:
$ id
uid=109(user123) gid=1(other)... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: abohmeed
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
My English is no very good.
I must make a bash scripting sh create like a backdoor, and when execute the script a user without privileges convert in super user or root, whithout introducing the password.
In Spanish:
Crear un script que sirva como puerta trasera al sistema, de manera que al... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kitievbr
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have written a small web server in Python, and now I would like to run it on port 80, but in order to be able to bind to a port below 1024 I need to have root privileges. I don't want to run the server as root, though. How can I bind to port 80 as root and then drop root privileges?
Thankful... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ilja
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7. Linux
Hi,
Is it possible to grant root privileges to an ordinary user?
Other than 'sudo', is there some way under Users/Groups configuration?
I want ordinary user to be able to mount, umount and use command mt.
/Brendan (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: brendan76
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
As admin with root rights, to execute any command from another user without password-ask, I do : su - <user> -c "<cmd>"
But how can I do to give the same rights to another physical user without using root user ? :confused:
I've try to create another user "toor" with the same primary... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: madmat
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9. Solaris
Hi, I've just managed to install openssh in my home directory on a server I have access to by using --prefix=$HOME/local after ./configure. Another thing I was having trouble with without root access was privilege separation, so I disabled that in my sshd_config. However, when I run... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: sayeo
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10. Programming
Hi
I have make a program that needs root privleges but any user can try to run it, so what I want it is, when any user tries( other than root ) to run the program, an input prompt would open to enter root password ( if user knows ) and program will run ( otherwise exit ), and after completing... (21 Replies)
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