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How can I perform the su command to switch to a network user without a password?

I have a local user and a network user (authenticated over LDAP) that I frequently use su to switch to for certain tasks. I'm wondering how I can avoid typing the password for the network user every ...
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Basic server build for practicing and learning linux on

I am taking it upon myself to learn Linux,so here is what I want to accomplish; I want to set up a server primarily for practice. I don't need it to do anything specific accept allow me to login via ...
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How to give Public_html to each user?

I have a new installation of Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to have 2 or more users be able to test with apache/php/mysql. Within default config at sites-available I added two different VirtualHosts, one ...
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run a command as user at boot time Ubuntu 12.04

I want to run a command at boot time that basically looks like this: python /home/me/.hidden/commnd.py Also, this needs to run as me, not root. I know it can be done, but my google-fu is weak ...
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ubuntu server: login with new created user > get dollar shell

when I create a new user in Ubuntu Server and then try to login with the new user I get an error message. In one case Ubuntu tells me that the home directory of the user doesn't exist when I login ...
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How to create link to linux server

In these days I'm setting up a small network with about twenty computers. The users of this network used windows before and they need to access samba ubuntu folders simply using their name (which is ...
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Adding additional users to Ubuntu server and configuring Samba

I have installed Ubuntu Server 12.10 and during the install created a user for myself ben, I now wish to add a second user bill. I have an external drive that I have mounted to /media/storage and ...
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How to setup an Ubuntu Server? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Share Ext4 Partition Over Network I have no knowledge when it comes to servers and i really want to be a pro at stuff like that. What i wanna do is setup a Ubuntu ...
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Why do I need to use separate accounts for installing and running a program?

I bought some software from Atlassian (Jira, Confluence etc.) and I am installing it. One of the programs recommend me to create a user with limited access for only that program, and it also wants me ...
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specify user for init.d

I have a init.d script that start|stops|restarts a daemon using the start-stop-daemon. This daemon is always started as root. I want to be able to specify the user that the init.d script will use to ...
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How do I restrict ports to certain users?

Alright, well, what I wanted to do was to allow my users to only be allowed to access a specific port, In example, UserA can only access port 2004 While UserB can only access ports 2009, and 2010 To ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 won't login. `rm X.authority` or chown home or `reconfigure lightdm` didn't work

This is the first time asking here so I hope you guys can help me. Normally I would turn on the computer and choose Ubuntu. It then prompts the login screen where I select my user and put my password ...
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Multiple Users Sending Input To The Same Server Running On My Ubuntu Server

I've just recently started hosting a Java based server on my Ubuntu Server. I've been learning how to setup everything and I've been feeling pretty good about it's setup. I currently start the ...
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How can I get the command log of a particular user on Ubuntu Server?

Is there a way to find a log of all the commands that have been run by a user on Ubuntu 11.10 Server? I need to find out what my friend ran to install a program.
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Enable Automatic Login on a headless server [closed]

Is there a easy way to allow a automatic login on a non-sudo account to a server that requires physical access when used. I want to turn on the computer and have it automatically log in to my not sudo ...
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How can I switch user without password?

How can I switch user without password in ubuntu server 11.1 ? in CentOS passwd -d -u username but Ubuntu 11.10 not work
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What's the regular way to add an admin user?

I have installed an Ubuntu server cloud version on my AWS instance. Anyway the default user name is specified as ubuntu, and i don't like it. Because I have my own policy for admin account name. So ...
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Migrate FTP users from one server to another

I have a situation where I have ~10 FTP users, and I need to migrate them from one server (server A) to another (server B). The userdata (so their files) are in /home/<username>, so moving that ...
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What open source configuration management software with a GUI is available?

I want to mange multiple ubuntu desktop(10.04,11.04 and 11.10) from server. Like i want do following list of thing 1) policy management 2) package management 3) Various system Administration thing ...
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Getting an “Authentication token manipulation” error when trying to change my user password

I am logging in to my Ubuntu Server using my username. Once I am logged in I am typing passwd command. Entering a new password but a second after getting following error messages: passwd: ...
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GDM causes freeze on a remote login server. (over 5,000 users)

I run an ubuntu FTP server in the company I work for, and we recently migrated over 5,000 customers to it. I created a jailed user / home folder for each customer and everything was running smoothly ...
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Should I enable root account for rsync?

How can I enable the root account? I know it is not usually recommended but I'd like to setup a non-interactive script to backup my server using rsync. I could use --rsync-path="sudo rsync" but then I ...
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Create a new SSH user on Ubuntu Server

Just created a new virtual Ubuntu server and I'm in the process of hardening it for production use. I currently have a root account. I want to do the following: Create a new user (let's call them ...