im able to login to root via SU perfectly
One problem: All my old files and folders are owned by ROOT so that means my SU account named XXX cant edit/add/delete anything from my SFTP because of folder/file permission.
Is there anyway my SUDO(wheel) account can still edit these files own by ROOT?
Currently I have a server that has direct root SSH access disabled (have to login as regular user then su to root), but I am currently working on setting up authentication via SSH keys, but I can't seem to get it working with direct root SSH access disabled? Is this normal, and if so is there anyway to work around it?
Basically I'd like to be able to authenticate both ways; both with SSH keys or by logging in as a regular user and su to root.
login as: hen
hen@xx.xx.xx.xx's password:
Last login:
hen@root [~]# su -
Password:
su: incorrect password
I verified that root password is correct, but no matter how many times I tried, I can't su in
Where's my su permission
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24060 Mar 22 2007 /bin/su*
here's inside /etc/group
wheel:x:10:root,hen
I tried to disable direct root login but had to struggle to find step-by-step instructions and have written the steps one needs to follow to disable direct root login.
This is an additional security measure where we prevent direct root logins and instead create a user to login and then use a command ‘su –‘ to gain root privileges.
The only risk in this procedure is that you may prevent root login but forget to add the user to the wheel group - effectively locking yourself out of the system.
Follow the steps below and you will not face a problem.
STEP 1: Let us create a user and add it to the wheel group.
For e.g. we want to create a user neonix and give him root privileges.
SSH into your server as root and follow the below commands to create a user.
groupadd neonix
useradd neonix –gneonix
passwd neonix
enteryouruserpasswordhere
verifyyouruserpasswordhere
// Please note -g in the second line
// You can replace neonix with any username of your choice.
STEP 2: Add user to wheel group.
Use your browser to Login to your WHM panel and click on Manage Wheel Group Users.
You will see the user you just added (neonix). Select the user and click ‘Add to group’.
You will see that the user has been added –
Users Currently in the wheel group root,neonix
You have successfully added a user to the 'wheel' group who will be able to 'su -' to root.
LOGOUT OF SSH
Before we disable root login, let us check if the user can login and su – to gain root privileges.
SSH into your server as 'neonix'
Login as: neonix
Password : enteryouruserpasswordhere
su –
password: enter root password here
You have successfully logged in and have root privileges. Now let us disable root login.
STEP 3: Disable Direct Root Login
(The below steps are from webhostgear.com)
1. Copy and paste this line to edit the file for SSH logins
pico -w /etc/ssh/sshd_config
2. Find the line
Protocol 2, 1
3. Uncomment it (Remove #) and change it to look like
Protocol 2
4. Next, find the line
PermitRootLogin yes
5. Uncomment it (Remove #) and make it look like PermitRootLogin no
6. Save the file Ctrl+X then Y then enter
7. Now you can restart SSH
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart
Now, no one will be able to login to root with out first logging in as 'neonix' and 'su -' to root, and you will be forcing the use of a more secure protocol.
Just make sure you remember both passwords!
I use a login script on my hosting site. and i was wondering if there was any way or any program that would allow me to Block people from going mydomain.com then cpanel?
And forcing them to go to my site to use the cpanel login script on my website?
Im sure that if there was a way to disable Cpanel login it would aslo block the scipt on my site.
Is there a solution to my little perdicament here?
Any software or scripts that do what im looking for?
I was worry about which is more seucre to login to the server
disabling the direct login and using the public key (ssh-dss) with 2084 bit length ?
or use the direct login?
and if the public key is more secure , should we use passphrase when generating the key? or no?
I'm Running (just) Direct Admin On a Centos 4.3
Due to a typo at the comand line as Root, ive manages to change the owner ship of unknown mounts of files.
The command that was processed (Before it was complete)
chown -R reseller:reseller /
I managed to stop the process ctr+c
and these were the last files to see fly past.
The last one in the list is where it stopped at.
Code:
chown: changing ownership of `/proc/11566/task/11566': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `/proc/11566/task/11566/fd/0': No such device or address
chown: changing ownership of `/proc/11566/fd/0': No such device or address
chown: changing ownership of `/proc/11572': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `/proc/11572/task/11572': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `/proc/11572/task/11572/fd/4': No such file or directory
chown: changing ownership of `/proc/11572/task/11572/cwd': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `/proc/11572/fd/4': No such file or directory
chown: changing ownership of `/proc/11572/cwd': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `/etc/X11/X': No such file or directory
chown: changing ownership of `/dev/core': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of `/usr/local/include/libpng/libpng12':
Too many levels of symbolic links
At the moment the server is still running and it seems only to be log in issues with Direct admin. All user / reseller / Admin accounts can no longer log in.
Error after logging in : Unable to determine Usertype user.conf needs to be repaired
No images or nothing
can not login root from SSH, LT suggest me to do KVM over IP
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We have an internal server running Red Hat 8 or 9 that was taken offline at least 18 months ago. The guy who set up the box is long gone. Unfortunately with him went the root password. It wasn't a big deal until we realized there is some code we do want to get off of that box now that may be useful in a future project. In particular the database structure for one project. Is there any way to get access to this data or is it just lost?
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Any way to backup every SQL Databases at once ?
At the moment i need to configure each subscription on my backup program to backup each sql database.
there is any way to set a login that back's up all the databases?
And for the ftp files?
During the installation of Plesk, at first it used the root password, and then had me create an "admin" user.
When I log in using either I don't see any difference in the UI or options. Is there a difference or a reason to use one over the other?
Or is it just to give someone access to admin Plesk without giving them full root password of the server itself?
I have read that although chained root ssl certificates can be more difficult to install they are actually more secure since the root certificate cannot be compromised, only the intermediary.
Is this true? It looks like both google and amazon both use chained SGC certs.
Just got a new additional VPS with WHM/cPanel.
Browse to www.mydomain.com/webmail and get login box > login accepted and taken to Horde/Squirrelmail choice screen > choose Squirrelmail and get login box ... login not accepted! > Retry and choose Horde ... login not accepted!
The login is correct and the results are the same when logging in as root, or through /cPanel or /Webmail.
i had access in some servers via SSH and when i try to connect i get:
Welcome to The HOST!
login as: nickname
--------------------------
We monitor/log everything on that server! IP Logged!
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nickname@host's password:
.............
I know that there is the motd file in /etc that i can put a message but i see it when i full be recognized by the server.. (after putting the password).. How can i put the other 2 messages?
I went with the cheapest VPS, no control panel and installed webmin myself (done - saves a quid a month )
I have now setup the virtual domains for multiple domain hosting, to find whilst migrating a website that the current install of php (5.12ish) has --without-mysql
so i got the php install files, went to run ./config to find i'm missing required files
(configure: error: Could not find pcre.h in /usr)
which in turn required more files
the resolution rpms are out of the question too many, I need YUM
yet...
bash: yum: command not found
strange as centos comes with yum i thaught
support is busy, thaught i'd try here
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Me:
Web Designer
Only linux experience prior is Yellow Dog Linux
No prior experience in VPS
VPS:
centos 5
minimum spec
now with webmin
Last night MySQL Crashed, and when the guy that I share the server with found out, he simply restarted the server (because he doesnt know any better). I went to check my email this morning and it wasnt connecting, I assumed the pop3 server or exim was in need of a restart, but when I went to restart pop3, this came up:
Attempting to restart cppop
Waiting for cppop to restart.... . . . . . . . . . . finished.
cppop status
couriertcpd is disabled
Service: [cppop] has been disabled by the sys admin
So, I re-enabled cppop (can't imagine why it would have disabled itself) and still nothing, I looked up couriertcpd to re-enable as well, but found nothing about enabling/disabling it on google.
My vps managed service has disabled this functions in php.ini :
Code:
exec, shell_exec, system, passthru,popen, virtual, show_source, pclose
I asked them why these disabled and the answer was "because of security reasons" .
So for example a Joomla installation with working RSS needs some of these functions and when I install vary php programs I face some strnge problems that I think it may be from these disabilities .
So my question is could these functions usually be disabled ? and may I delete them from disable_functions of php.ini
I am hosted at EuroVPS from my reseller. I have noticed that my disk space has high usage 150MB whereas real usage should be around 30MB. Then I tried report service which stated disk usage is 30MB and Log report is 120MB. I said no problem let delete those Log files where I bumped to a problem, Log rotation is disabled and there is no X (delete button). In few years I could reach to maximum disk usage and disabilty to upload files and etc..
What to do now? I don't have password for support at EuroVPS since I am not reseller and my reseller isn't replying).