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Is there a way to find out how many instances of the root user are logged into a Linux machine?
We have a handful of users that login to our Linux virtual machine as root either through the vSphere client or through SSH and I want to see if there is a way to tell if multiple root users are ...
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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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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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switching from user to root and revers (freebsd)
i want to make some modificaciones with root and then with my user, in fact i want to install sudo and he give me the error in the first step:
cd /usr/ports/security/sudo
make install clean
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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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Lightweight virtualization on Linux with user isolation
What Linux-on-Linux virtualization technologies provide user isolation? Specifically, I want root in the virtual machine not to have any privilege on the host.
This was not the case for LXC, but was ...
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How sudo/root-ness detection works
Programs that make changes system-wide require sudo unless I am already the root user.
Now, the question is: how exactly does the system figure out that I am (not) root?
Does it:
Check to see if ...
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Is it bad practice to set root's shell to something other than the default?
Once a friend of mine (who is an experienced Unix/Linux user) told me that setting root's shell to something other than sh (i.e bash or zsh) might create problems, because some script might assume ...
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Concern about logging in as root overrated?
For personal linux on my personal notebooks, I've usually set my environment to autologin as root even under X or lower runlevels. I've found my workflow is very pleasant and fast, without any ...
