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LAMP Server setup for personal development
I am setting up a LAMP server in VirtualBox for personal development. This will be an Ubuntu Server 12.04 install, and I will be using Virtual Hosts for Drupal, Yii, and other small PHP apps. Ideally ...
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How to set up a script to run as root non-interactively?
I need to set up the following script to run as root whenever I log in:
#!/bin/zsh
truncate -s 0 ~yourstruly/.juniper_networks/network_connect/ncsvc.log
I know how to run the script as root ...
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Trying to install fonts on Linux Mint Lisa, but it looks like I have a permissions or ownership problem
I downloaded the Source Code Pro family of fonts, but cannot install them via the Font Viewer. If I give myself admin powers, I can manually add them to the rest of the fonts, so I'm guessing it's a ...
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exclude commands from user's sudo permissions
Consider the following line in a /etc/sudoers file:
username ALL=(ALL) ALL, !/usr/bin/passwd
as far as I know, this allows user username to use sudo, unless he not uses /usr/bin/passwd. But ...
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suid-root doesn't have effect
A program from apue.
#include "apue.h"
#include <fcntl.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if(argc!=2)
err_quit("usage: a.out <pathname>");
if(access(argv[1], ...
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Why can't a normal user `chown` a file?
Why is the chown command root-only?
Why can't non-root users use chown to give away files they own?
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How to “jail” a process without being root?
Were I root, I could simply create a dummy user/group, set file permissions accordingly and execute the process as that user. However I am not, so is there any way to achieve this without being root?
