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Setting the root password vs. sudo -i
Should one always set a root password, or is sudo -i acceptable? Two problems is in reading other posts (maybe junk I realize):
sudo -i eliminates the need for a password. Isn't that a problem for ...
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Ask root for password when using su command
I'm trying to edit /etc/sudoers via visudo, but I don't know how to change the root rights.
I want root to be prompted for the user1's password, when he tries to use su user1.
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Finding root password
I installed a Ubuntu and it only has a user. I can login to the system without login. It doesn't ask me for un/pwd. but when I am in, and I want to run some commands as root (sudo), it ask for ...
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Shell script to become root
How can we write a shell script to become root?
That is I donot want to input the password at prompt it should be within the script itself. I was trying to make but failed to do so.Is it possible, if ...
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How to remove root password on Debian?
I'm running Debian in a virtual machine and for convenience I would like to remove the password on root (since it doesn't really matter what happens to this box). Internet hasn't been too helpful on ...
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Another account with same uid as root gets prompted to set new password for root, not itself
After upgrading the os from 5300-06 to 5300-11, this weird behaviour happened.
My system had another unix account, let's call it "abc", purposely configured its uid to 0 for working as a root with ...
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How to invoke root privileges from a password prompt of “Software Update” window?
When I try to install software updates using the "Software Update" GUI, I am asked for the root password. Although, I can 'su' in a terminal, the password is not recognized as correct in the GUI ...
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Is there a root password on OS X and Ubuntu?
When you setup a new Ubuntu or OS X installation a user is generally created for you. On OS X it is whatever username you pick. On Ubuntu (the server version) usually the ubuntu user is created.
The ...
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Is it possible (and a good idea) to do `pw lock root` on FreeBSD?
I have set up sudo on my FreeBSD server. As I now never want to log in as root anymore, I was wondering whether I should do sudo pw lock root.
My questions are:
Is this possible, without forever ...
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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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How do you change the root password on Debian?
I want to change the password I assigned to root on my Debian webserver to something longer and more secure.
Bit of an obvious newbie question, but how do I do that? I haven’t forgotten/lost the ...
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How to reset Linux root and grub passwords?
If we forget our Linux root password, we can change it by changing grub's boot options.
But in this case, we also set a grub password and forgot both passwords. How can we recover both?
