running
2) mount old_system:/file_system /mount_point
as for tar:
you can just tar the whole dir up, ftp them over the new_system and extract
them.
YMMV
Ze
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 5:53 PM
Subjec
Ze Ji Li wrote:
> 2) nfs mount your old redhat's home dir to the new machine.
Would you mind to tell me how to create NFS ?
> 3) to move everything from one place to another place, use
> cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xpf -)
I know tar -zvxf *.tar.gz only...
So, which / what comman
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 19:13, Ze Ji Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1) copy your shadow, passwd, group file to the new machine.
> 2) nfs mount your old redhat's home dir to the new machine.
> 3) to move everything from one place to another place, use
> cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xpf -)
> (
data around)
4) repeat step 2 and 3 for your mail dir.
Maybe someone knows better.
Ze
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: Users accounts
> Ze Ji Li wrote:
>
> > please don&#x
Ze Ji Li wrote:
> please don't do the userdel! Just nfs the home dir and mail dir, then mv
> them over. Try do a man on tar.
>
> cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xpf -)
>
> as for the passwd, just cp them (passwd and shadow) over.
Sorry, I don't quite understand your means...
Would you m
s" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: Users accounts
> userdel will handle most user removal needs...
> like: userdel bob
>
> -kpc
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
userdel will handle most user removal needs...
like: userdel bob
-kpc
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Happy New Year first !
> Now, there is another one New Server ( Linux Redhat 7.2 ), but we don't
> know how to remove all of user accounts ( eg : Home Dir, Mail
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On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 14:24, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:13:41PM -, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> >
> > http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/
>
> This doesn't appear very practical. With hundreds of users (I'm over
> 500 now), I'd have to have hundres of copies of the shared libraries
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:13:41PM -, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> From: "Alan Peery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > It seems a relatively simple set of mods for sshd, and I am surprised
> > that the OpenSSH people aren't interested. Perhaps there is something
> > in the structure of the code that wo
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 19:37, Steve Howard wrote:
>> I'm sorry, I did not give much information with my question. I am
>> running RedHat8. I would like to allow some of my friends to have an
>> account on my machine. Some of them do not have access to a server
>> with bandwidth. I would like for
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 19:37, Steve Howard wrote:
> I'm sorry, I did not give much information with my question. I am
> running RedHat8. I would like to allow some of my friends to have an
> account on my machine. Some of them do not have access to a server with
> bandwidth. I would like for them to
From: "Alan Peery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It seems a relatively simple set of mods for sshd, and I am surprised
> that the OpenSSH people aren't interested. Perhaps there is something
> in the structure of the code that would make it unexpectedly difficult.
http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/
>F
Ed Wilts wrote:
Here's the problem, and I'll let you suggest some solutions that are
actually secure.
Sounds fun. :-)
Allow hundreds of authenticated users scattered throughout the
Internet to transfer files. Restrict uploads to pre-determined
directories and downloads to other pre-determine
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:31:21PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ed Wilts wrote:
>
> Here's the problem, and I'll let you suggest some solutions that are
> actually secure. If you can solve this, you're a better techie than I am.
> Allow hundreds of authenticated users scattered throughout the
> Internet
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:17:11PM -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ed Wilts wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:02:27PM -0500, Steve Howard wrote:
> > > Can I set an upper level directory, /home/user, for example for each
> > > user? I have been able to do this with ftp, but c
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:02:27PM -0500, Steve Howard wrote:
> > Can I set an upper level directory, /home/user, for example for each
> > user? I have been able to do this with ftp, but can I do it with ssh?
>
> You mean you want to chroot the user so that
Ok, along this line of thinking, ftp is a protocol that is for
transfering files, yet the ftp deamon allows for setting a upper level
directory. The ssh protocol is for encrypted command line access, why
can't the ssh deamon provide access control also?
Thank you very much,
Steve
>>> [EMAIL PROTE
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:37:02PM -0500, Steve Howard wrote:
> I'm sorry, I did not give much information with my question. I am
> running RedHat8. I would like to allow some of my friends to have an
> account on my machine. Some of them do not have access to a server with
> bandwidth. I would lik
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:02:27PM -0500, Steve Howard wrote:
> > Can I set an upper level directory, /home/user, for example for each
> > user? I have been able to do this with ftp, but can I do it with ssh?
>
> You mean you want to chroot the user so that
look up chroot jail in Google
I have installed it and it works great.
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Steve Howard wrote:
> I'm sorry, I did not give much information with my question. I am
> running RedHat8. I would like to allow some of my friends to have an
> account on my machine. Some of them do not
I'm sorry, I did not give much information with my question. I am
running RedHat8. I would like to allow some of my friends to have an
account on my machine. Some of them do not have access to a server with
bandwidth. I would like for them to be able to ftp in/out to account,
have a html folder...a
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Steve Howard wrote:
| Can I set an upper level directory, /home/user, for example for each
| user? I have been able to do this with ftp, but can I do it with ssh?
Are you referring to chrooting the user to their home directory from a shell
or for SCP
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:02:27PM -0500, Steve Howard wrote:
> Can I set an upper level directory, /home/user, for example for each
> user? I have been able to do this with ftp, but can I do it with ssh?
You mean you want to chroot the user so that they can't transfer files
outside of that direct
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 02:00, Sam Sgro wrote:
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>
>
> We have produced FreeS/WAN 1.98b RPMs for RedHat kernel versions 2.4.7-10,
> 2.4.9-34, 2.4.18-3, 18-4 and 18-5. They don't require any kernel recompilation,
> as this results in a module-based install.
I not blamming Redhat
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Lee
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Users] FreeS/Wan on Redhat 7.3
it is not free redhat that is the problem
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We have produced FreeS/WAN 1.98b RPMs for RedHat kernel versions 2.4.7-10,
2.4.9-34, 2.4.18-3, 18-4 and 18-5. They don't require any kernel recompilation,
as this results in a module-based install.
These RPMs greatly speed up the installation process: you
it is not free redhat that is the problem, but you not being
able to compile the kernel correctly. don't bash redhat
for that. i have been able to get it working without a problem.
plus i found a rpm package somewhere on the net for the kernel
with ipsec for redhat.
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Brian
I'm going to disagree with your advice - I had a fresh RH 7.3 install
running @ OLS, and thru the week ran 1.97, 1.98 and 1.98b without any
problems whatsoever. I changed kernels at least a dozen times, from
2.4.18 -> 2.4.19-pre10 and everything in between. Each time I changed
kernels, I di
I was not able to compile it either, but these rpms worked like a charm...
http://www.steamballoon.com/freeswan/
I am still trying to get a road warrior config to work...
Does anyone have a suggestion?? (need a winbloze client)
I tried ssh.com's sentinel, and was not successful...
Now trying
On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 02:44, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 02:12 06 Jul 2002, Jay Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | I am also interested in this topic. According to the man page chroot
> | would work something like this as users shell but I can't get it work
> | even though I copied /bin/bash t
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Ted Gervais wrote:
>
> What does one have to do, to keep users that enter your system, to stay in
> their own directories. People telnet in or ssh in and look around and was
> wondering if there is a way to stop that. Maybe set the permissions or
> something so they have
On 02:12 06 Jul 2002, Jay Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I am also interested in this topic. According to the man page chroot
| would work something like this as users shell but I can't get it work
| even though I copied /bin/bash to /home/login/bin
|
| chroot /home/login /home/login/bin/ba
On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 23:46, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 15:58 05 Jul 2002, Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | What does one have to do, to keep users that enter your system, to stay in
> | their own directories. People telnet in or ssh in and look around and was
> | wondering if there
On 15:58 05 Jul 2002, Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| What does one have to do, to keep users that enter your system, to stay in
| their own directories. People telnet in or ssh in and look around and was
| wondering if there is a way to stop that. Maybe set the permissions or
| somet
On Fri, 24 May 2002 10:43:50 -0600
"Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Javier Gostling wrote:
>
> > How about a web interface? It could use a perl script to interact
> > with the passwd program, or directly modify /etc/passwd.
>
> That would work, sure. But before I reinvent
Javier Gostling wrote:
> How about a web interface? It could use a perl script to interact with
> the passwd program, or directly modify /etc/passwd.
That would work, sure. But before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd ask first
if anyone already has such mechanism, or know of any that ar
"Ashley M. Kirchner" wrote:
>
> How can I have users change their passwords if they don't have shell access?
>The biggest problem we have right now is people's passwords expiring (after a
>mandatory set period) and them having to call IT to get it re-issued again.
>Generally they start c
On 19:51 07 Feb 2002, Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:40:45PM -0600, Bryan Pershall wrote:
| > Why are normal users not allowed to start x and how can I fix this
|
| How are you doing this, and what are the error messages or results?
| Works fine for me: 'start
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:40:45PM -0600, Bryan Pershall wrote:
> Why are normal users not allowed to start x and how can I fix this
How are you doing this, and what are the error messages or results?
Works fine for me: 'startx'.
--
Hal Burgiss
Hi Enrico,
On Monday, April 23, 2001, 7:19:40 AM, you babbled something about:
EP> Hi, I have install a RH7.0 server with Samba 2.0.7.
EP> When I try and login as a user from the console, I get the error "login: no
EP> shell: Permission denied."
EP> If I login as root, all works correctly.
Ch
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Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 3:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Users??
My advice is to stick to the "simple".
I prefer to use
ps -ef to obtain the Pid of the login question.
Then, as the others suggested, use kill on the PID.
However, with ps -aef, you can tell what th
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Subject: Re: Users??
Ward William E PHDN wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Martin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Users??
>
> > Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes:
>
Ward William E PHDN wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Martin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Users??
>
> > Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes:
>
> > ps aux | grep usern
My advice is to stick to the "simple".
I prefer to use
ps -ef to obtain the Pid of the login question.
Then, as the others suggested, use kill on the PID.
However, with ps -aef, you can tell what that user is doing and what
PID is attached to the task. Incidentally, if you "kill" the lowest PID
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From: Martin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: Users??
> Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes:
> ps aux | grep username | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
> ps aux - get
do a ps -fu "username" and see what process numbers the user has open.
then kill -9 "process id" which will close the persons shell.
Jake
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Steven Pierce wrote:
--
--
--Hi There,
--
--I am a newbie so please bare with me for some simple ( to most) questions.
--I have a Li
At 01:53 2000-07-12 -0700, Martin Brown wrote:
>Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes:
>
>ps aux | grep username | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
>
>ps aux - get the process list
>grep username - get lines from the list that contain the username
>(potential prob
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Steven Pierce wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I want to kick off Erin, what would be the process short
> of reboot the machine. I have looked in books read man pages. Nothing
> gives you specific information on kicking off a user. I know that I could
> also close the account, but
Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes:
ps aux | grep username | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
ps aux - get the process list
grep username - get lines from the list that contain the username
(potential problem here if the username has similarities
At 21:10 2000-07-11 -0700, Steven Pierce wrote:
>I am a newbie so please bare with me for some simple ( to most) questions.
>I have a Linux server and I logged in last night three times. I was
checking some
>of the log in's that I set up. After I was done, I had closed the screen
that I was
>usi
It's already in the distribution. It sometimes goes by the name YP or YellowPages.
There's also a variation called NIS+ that offers more security. There is a set
of howto's on it in /usr/doc/HOWTO/
The simple explination is that it basicly exports key information from /etc on
the server to
whats nis? I have not heard of it.. Where can I get it?
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, J. Scott Kasten wrote:
> You must either manualy keep UIDs identical across systems or use NIS which will
> do it for you effectively. (It exports a user file to all participating systems
> so you
You must either manualy keep UIDs identical across systems or use NIS which will
do it for you effectively. (It exports a user file to all participating systems
so you only maintain the main server.)
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 01:52:46PM -0600, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> What are people using to keep mu
It suppose to be like this
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
order allow,deny
allow from all
just change the tilde into asterisk. just that.
>From: Ron Staples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: users web pages
>Date: Wed, 03 Nov
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 03:05:56PM +, Ron Staples wrote:
>
> Following the instructions outline in O'Rilly's book "Learning Red Hat Linux"
>
> I've been trying to set up access for users to view their own web pages.
> I've added the following to my access.conf with no affect ;(
Perhaps /hom
Ron Staples wrote:
>
> Following the instructions outline in O'Rilly's book "Learning Red Hat Linux"
>
> I've been trying to set up access for users to view their own web pages.
> I've added the following to my access.conf with no affect ;(
Make sure the user's home directory is at least drwx--
Ron Staples wrote:
>
> Following the instructions outline in O'Rilly's book "Learning Red Hat Linux"
What version of Apache are you running??
Check your httpd.conf file and uncomment the following line
UserDir public_html
Here's the examples straight from the httpd.conf file to setup thos
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Chris Frost wrote:
> I'm beginning to setup a cluster here, and most of the nodes will be
> disk-less (and thus nis isn't needed), but for those that will have their
Probably should use it anyway. It keeps your password files organized, it
is better than mounting /etc/passw
Chris Frost wrote:
>
> Also, is nfs much faster in 2.1? This network is going to be loaded w/ nfs
> stuff (seeing as how 10 computers will be disk-less), and I'll need all the
> performance I can get.
Hopefully someone else can be more precise about this, but at the Linux
Expo there was a talk a
Remove the user's home dir (/home/user usually), their mail spool
(if created, /var/spool/mail/user), and their entries from /etc/passwd and
/etc/group (if created).
---
Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mi
To disable your passwords take out all of the encrypted password in the
/etc/passwd file ex.
jason:TR23JMEP45:500:500:Red Hat Linux User:/home/wfi/jason:/bin/bash
would become
jason::500:500:Red Hat Linux User:/home/wfi/jason:/bin/bash .
I am not sure about the cracklib though.
Jason
At
-Original Message-
From: Dave Ihnat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 22:21 PM
Subject: Re: users do not login
>Not to criticize; just pointing out that the "0:0" is not permissions; it's
>the user
Billy Bushong - Concord, NH wrote:
> Add the following line to your passwd file:
>
> user1::0:0:test user:/root:/bin/bash
>...
> If that works, change the permissions (That's the 0:0 part) to something a
> lot higher ...
Not to criticize; just pointing out that the "0:0" is not permissions; it's
>Simply nothing. The same message appears on the screen:"Not directory
>/home/user1"
>I tried to create a directory /user1 to make sure that the problem
>is not with only /home and change corresponding part in the
>passwd file, but the problem persists.
Good call on the creation of the /user1 di
Billy Bushong - Concord, NH wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Ivan Jose Varzinczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: ivan jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 19:46 PM
> Subject: Re: users do n
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At 10:45 4/19/98 -0700, ivan jose wrote:
>
>I followed all the suggestions I
>received, but all the users that
>I creat can not log in my machine.
>Whenever I try to enter as a user
>the X simply restart and in the
>prompt mode appears briefly the
>message: "not
At 09:08 PM 4/19/98 -0300, you wrote:
>Yes and no. I added some users with control-panel andanothers using
adduser, but
>both methods failed.
>> Have you (as root) issued the command:
>> prompt# passwd username
>> and given them good passwords.
I have learned that despite the man page (and th
-Original Message-
From: Ivan Jose Varzinczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ivan jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 19:46 PM
Subject: Re: users do not login
Ok... I've watched this for a while, and I will thro
I'm a total newbie here, but i had this problem and here's how i worked
around it:
If you set up a new user from the control panel, hit ENTER after you have
entered the password in the "encrypted password" field. This will prompt
you to enter the same password again for verification. (Similarly,
Rick L. Mantooth wrote:
> Waitaminute,
> When you/whomever added the users, did you by chance add
> them with control-panel?
>
Yes and no. I added some users with control-panel andanothers using adduser, but
both methods failed.
> Have you (as root) issued the command:
>
> prompt# passwd user
Waitaminute,
When you/whomever added the users, did you by chance add
them with control-panel?
Have you (as root) issued the command:
prompt# passwd username
and given them good passwords.
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Ivan Jose Varzinczak wrote:
>
>
> Rick L. Mantooth wrote:
>
> > Ivan,
> > Missed
Rick L. Mantooth wrote:
> Ivan,
> Missed most of the thread, but,
>
> Log in as root (assuming this works) and
> prompt# telnet localhost
>
> Login as one of the users. (can you?)
No.
> If not, look for a couple of things:
>
> prompt# grep username /etc/passwd
> username:2EI4ftvf8MEKc:505:50
Ivan,
Missed most of the thread, but,
Log in as root (assuming this works) and
prompt# telnet localhost
Login as one of the users. (can you?)
If not, look for a couple of things:
prompt# grep username /etc/passwd
username:2EI4ftvf8MEKc:505:505:username Name:/home/username:/bin/bash
If your us
On 18-Apr-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > HELP ME, PLEASE !!!
>> >
>> >I can not log in as an user.
>> >In the prompt mode always
>> >appears the message:
>> >Not directory "/home/!"
>> >And in X, whenever I log as any
>> >user, the password is evaluated
>> >but
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On 18-Apr-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> HELP ME, PLEASE !!!
>
>I can not log in as an user.
>In the prompt mode always
>appears the message:
>Not directory "/home/!"
>And in X, whenever I log as any
>user, the password is evaluated
>but imediately the X is resta
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