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Cannot remove /log/var/snort as root

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 Gnome. I uninstalled snort in order to install a more recent version. The new installation initially failed because the system would not let be rm or modify /var/log/snort ...
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disabling root permissions [closed]

From Linux From Scratch build a minimal system for running my application. but struck on disabling root permission. Need my minimal lfs as ubuntu. when ubuntu boots login-screen displays when we ...
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How to suid iwconfig on Debian wheezy?

I have a script running under my own user account that takes care of all sorts of wireless interfaces. It (more or less) intelligently switches wireless LAN off and on and so forth. However, it does ...
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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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Root user can't do everything? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Redirecting stdout to a file you don’t have write permission on I'm quite new to Linux and I have a permissions questions. I'm using Linux Mint. If I go to /opt and do ...
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Make a programme executable by common users

I've installed hddtemp on my Arch Linux, but it needs to be run with root permissions. I want to execute it as a normal user without using sudo. How can I do this?
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Problem accessing /home from different partition

I'm currently using Chakra on /sda1 and Fuduntu on /sda2 (a partition I keep for trying out and playing around with distros), and both systems use /sda3 for each different /home partition (I'll call ...
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How do I find out if I am sudoer?

How does Linux system behave when I am not sudoer? Here is what happens if I try to use sudo: server:/tmp>$ sudo cal [sudo] password for user: Sorry, try again. Is it possible that I just don't ...
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Root permission - username ALL=(ALL) ALL does not work

I'm a beginner. I'm trying to give my user root permissions, so I edited the sudoers file like this: black ALL=(ALL) ALL "black" is my username. But I still don't have root permissions, and ...
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How to give user root permissions?

I just installed Arch. Works great. I created a new user, logged in with it and now I'm trying to install several thing with pacman. But I keep getting the error: error: you cannot perform this ...
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Start Vim as my user with root privileges

I have my custom Vim files in ~/.vim and settings in ~/.vimrc. However, sometimes I have to edit some files in /etc and such. If I start Vim like this: $ sudo vim /etc/rc.conf I lose my config ...
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GNU Screen does not work when su'ing from root to a normal user

Is it normal, that when I am logged in as root, and the used su user, I can't access that users screen sessions? In this case, screen complains about it not having permissions on /dev/pts/x. I ...
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Why can't root execute when executable bits are not set?

root user can write to a file even if its write permissions are not set. root user can read a file even if its read permissions are not set. root user can cd into a directory even if its execute ...
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Gaining root privileges in SCO

I am learning Linux for work, so am still a bit rusty on the edges. I am needing to change the folder permission of the directory /opt, and I know in Linux, you do the following: chmod 775 /opt I ...
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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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Unable to delete file, even as root

I've got a file on remote machine (saying that, cause I don't know who the heck created it), that I've to remove. user@machine:~/folder$ ls lift_proto.db.lock.db And permissions are like this: ...
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System files with strict permissions

Usually, when we run ls -l we can see such picture -rwx...- so the owner always has the full stack of permissions. And usually the owner of the system files is the root. Are there any system files ...
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How do I stop Apache from running as root?

New on the job, small place, and the security stuff just landed on my desk. I was hired to be a front-end developer. Happy to learn new things, but never had to do sysadmin stuff before. I started ...
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Unable to delete file, even when running as root

I am in the process of migrating a machine from RHEL 4 to 5. Rather than actually do an upgrade we have created a new VM (both machines are in a cloud) and I am in the process of copying across data ...
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How can I install programming tools in the root directory so that they can be used by non-admin users?

I'm running OS X and for security reasons my main account does not have admin privileges. How can I install development tools in the root directory so that they can be used by all users? If this can't ...
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Permissions of webserver's root directory

I've had this issue on several setups, and I'm unsure of how to handle it. At first, all of /var is owned by root:root. Clearly I don't want the web directory to be owned by root, so I do chown ...
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How to get back sudo on Ubuntu?

I have done this: sudo chown -R myname /usr/ and now I can't use the sudo command because of this error: sudo: must be setuid root And as I read this means that the owner of this file ...
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What is the difference between 'su -' and 'su root'? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why do we use su - and not just su? I understand that root doesn't have to be a superuser. But in the case that it is ... what is the difference between sudo su - and ...
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Give a warning when something is about to be deleted (by root)

I know that root can do anything, but is there a way to at least alert root that they are about to delete a folder that perhaps shouldn't be deleted? We keep a work directory in our /tmp folder, and ...