Questions tagged [root]
The "root" account is the most privileged account on a Unix system.
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How do I enable root account = set root password in Synology DSM 7.2?
How do I enable root account = set root password in Synology DSM 7.2?
(On Synology DS923+, but I believe it is not at all hardware-bound.)
Being rooted with sudo -i, I tried passwd, but I got:
-ash: ...
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`sudo which` command not finding executable that exists in regular user PATH [duplicate]
I'm encountering a confusing behavior with sudo and the which command. An executable is found when running which as a regular user, but not when using sudo which, even though it's accessible when ...
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Confused about root shell $PATH
So I'm running a Devuan (but for these purposes it could be Debian as well as most other distros, I guess...) and somehow, when I enter the root shell in a graphical terminal via su, the PATH variable ...
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All users obtain root privileges after logging in and are unable to exit, even if they are just regular users [closed]
In the Ubuntu 24.04LTS release, all users (including those not in the sudoers group) who log in and use commands such as whoami, id - un, and view UID will be displayed as root users with root ...
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Why doesn't visudo, like sudoedit, spawn a text editor as a regular user?
As far as I know, sudoedit gives a user permission to edit a file that is owned and writable by root.
It makes a copy of that file, the copy is owned by the user, and then it spawns a text editor with ...
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What features do I sacrifice by turning off "Machine with root privileges" when setting up a Podman machine in Podman Desktop on macOS?
When setting up a Podman machine in Podman Desktop app, one of the features is "Machine with root privileges". I am inclined to disable that because I am using Podman for safety, to insulate ...
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Mapping two users to host with user namespaces
I'm trying to understand whether it's possible to map two users from a user namespace to two different users on the host.
The goal is to replicate the same permissions I have on my host inside a ...
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Netbeans - Run/Debug the project as root
Is there a way to run/debug my Java program from Netbeans as root?
Context: I'm working on RaspberryPi 4 and using PI4J library to access GPIO. Lib offers several I/O Providers and the only one that ...
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Is it safe to add user to root group?
Adding any user to root group seems like something not safe, but is it? Here is my use case.
I have PHP application that connects to Postgres database. Application is dockerized and run in container ...
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Unable to set password of another user, even as root
I'm having an unusual problem. I created the user, and, I thought, set it's password.
For additional context, this is in a production environment, and we are using RHEL 8.10
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Help - I moved everything in the root directory to a directory of mine
So I was moving some files, I meant:
mv ./* ~/something
But I typed:
mv /* something
Now I can't boot up my computer and I couldn't because me: ls output: -bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory
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User added to wheel group, but can't su without password authentication
On a SLES 15 SP1 system, I've added a user to the wheel group:
wheel:x:1003:joeuser
however, when joeuser logs in as themselves, then tries to su (to become root), they are asked for their password. ...
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Unknown TCP in the nethogs output w/ data
I've seen this has an answer while there is no data being transmitted, but what about for when it is? Is this something I need to look into or am I fine? This was taken off my Nethogs
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Upgrade to custom kernel with no multiuser support
I am playing around with kernel customization on my headless Ubuntu Server system. Currently I have 6.8.0-48-generic kernel. My intention is to remove kernel features that I don't need. I decided to ...
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As root user, why do most commands fail unless sudo is used?
why is this happening?
Expected output:
# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500......
Output that occurs:
# ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found
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