Enter at the prompt $ bash If command not found error, install BASH # pkg_add -r -v bash Now find where BASH is installed $ which bash You should see (Ubuntu) /bin/bash Change shell to BASH $ chsh -s /bin/bash username username is your User Name You should see: Password: Provide your login password You’ll need to logout (exit) and...
Users and Groups Users are located in /etc/passwd Groups are located in /etc/group The administrative ROOT account is disabled by default in Ubuntu . If you wish to enable the root account, simply give it a password by typing sudo passwd To disable the root account sudo passwd -l root The initial user created by the Ubuntu installer is a...
sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT error_log = /var/log/php_errors.log You must create the (log) file manually touch /var/log/php_errors.log chown www-data: /var/log/php_errors.log chmod +rw /var/log/php_errors.log
Wireshark on Debian Privileges and Setup for non-Root User
# Configuration file for ddclient # # /etc/ddclient.conf ## ddclient configuration file daemon=600 # check every 600 seconds syslog=yes ## Default options protocol=dyndns2 ## Detect IP with our CheckIP server use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.com, web-skip=’IP Address’ server=members.dyndns.org # log update msgs to syslog mail-failure=user@gmail.com # Mail failed updates to user pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid # record PID in file. ## DynDNS username and password here...
/usr/bin/make — NOT OK Failed during this command: Anytime you cannot get a Perl package to install, here is the likely problem. Run these: sudo apt-get install build-essential What is wrong : a Debian Server install intentionally does not contain development tools for security and efficiency reasons. So when you attempt to run Perl, you find that you can’t get...
You do not want to uninstall Tracker (on a desktop) as there are dependencies you may want to keep/it makes sense to keep. But Disabling Tracker from auto-start on startup will save resources. Edit ALL tracker desktop files sudo vi /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-* change this below line from =true to =false X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false Kill and Remove databases sudo tracker-control -r
This one has caught me a couple times and I keep forgetting how simple it is to solve. When you create a new user and then login as the new user, you get this message: Could not chdir to home directory /home/user: Permission denied -bash: /home/user .bash_profile: Permission denied And you find that you are not (and not able to...
This is a fantastic printer for Linux machines and for the price its seems too good to be true. I’m not paid to say that. Download Drivers here Canon PIXMA MX925 Unzip the packages and $ cd ~/cnijfilter-mx920series-3.90-1-deb $ sudo ./install.sh ================================================== Canon Inkjet Printer DriverVersion 3.90Copyright CANON INC. 2001-2013All Rights Reserved. ==================================================Command executed = sudo dpkg -iG ./packages/cnijfilter-common_3.90-1_amd64.debSelecting previously...
Note: When installing Truecrypt on a new linux system, the most common failure (install simply stops without an error message) is due to the permissions of the user. Make sure the user has been added to sudoers group and reboot (or logout and login again), or you will get the massage “user not in sudoers group”. Download Truecrypt Download signature...
And then I lived happily ever after – Fixed – BASH scripts executed from a user as sudo, resulted in the root ownership. In other words, a backup script executed by user became the property of root
Debian and VI are different than other distros, such as Ubuntu. I found all kinds of other/newer advice that did not work. Hopefully this will save someone else some time beating around the Interbushes. Pre-requisite: If you have not already, install vim sudo apt-get install vim sudo vi /etc/profile Add this line to the end of the file alias vi=’vim’...
Install Port Scan Attack Detector on Debian 7 Server sudo apt-get install psad sudo vi /etc/psad/psad.conf change these lines EMAIL_ADDRESSES me@seleads.com; HOSTNAME my.seleads.com; HOME_NET NOT_USED; ALERTING_METHODS noemail; IPT_SYSLOG_FILE /var/log/syslog; EMAIL_LIMIT_STATUS_MSG N; ENABLE_AUTO_IDS Y; AUTO_IDS_DANGER_LEVEL 2; AUTO_BLOCK_TIMEOUT 2592000; ENABLE_AUTO_IDS_EMAILS N; Restart psad psad -R psad –sig-update psad -H sudo vi /etc/cron.hourly/save-bad-ips #!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/share:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin /sbin/iptables-save -c > /tmp/iptables-save.txt #echo “SELECT lockdown_IP FROM...