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Hi, I just edited http://wiki.centos.org/de/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot and formatted all the commands in section 1.1 as `monospace`. Since the main font and the monospace font look quite similar, it is sometimes difficult to see where one ends and the other starts. Therefore I propose to add the following CSS rule to the whole CentOS wiki: #page tt.backtick { back...

Dear one, Today, I just want to update page http://wiki.centos.org/zh/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot as the english version has been updated to rev19, but I find that I have no right to edit.Admins has already put me in the edit group, with the Wiki user name GaoHum, there must something wrong, could any one help ? 2010-08-06 gaohu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachmen...

...and security patches can be automated as are other system updates, and managed using yum. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Change: Login to your server as root (you may login as user and then su to root if your system is set up this way). to: [:TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot:Become root.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Change: Then issue the following command to allow execution of this file by the shell: to: Make the file executable: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Change: Ok. WebMin repo a...

I followed the setup instructions from http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/ (link from the Centos wiki). All this is done on another 'clean' system, so I have to read the terminal screen there and tell what went wrong here. I then followed my colleague's instructions to get the tar, untar, autogen, configure, and finally make rpm. Well it was that make rpm command that finally

...their /etc/sudoers file to give themselves sudo access, so they could run [username at machinename ~]$ sudo yum install man-1.6f* man-pages-3.22-* (which will then prompt for the user's password, not the root password) instead of logging in as root. See http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot Hope that helps!

http://wiki.centos.org/AdrianHall/NetworkInstallServer I would suggest it goes into the HOWTO list. -- Adrian Hall (Personal Account) photoadrian at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20110913/16e19f83/attachment-0006.html>

Fresh install of CentOS 5.4 (and my first experience with CentOS). Following install, the first thing I did was enable desktop sharing so that I can control this new 1U box from my Mac workstation. The VNC client sees this as "Warren's remote desktop" but I'd like it to be more meaningful, as I have other remote desktops. Where in the user settings/prefs do I change the way

Hi List, I've just drafted a FAQ/mini-HOWTO on becoming root as this is a topic I see come up time and time again. Perhaps someone with a reasonable understanding could check it for technical correctness, and if anyone would like to offer comments/feedback?? Any suggestions as to where might be an appropriate home for this on the Wiki? Regards, Ned (attached below)

Thanks, Mark. Um, how's about from the commandline or how do I get, I guess we're still using X11, windows to load. Sorry, :<}}} Clayton >-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On >Behalf Of Mark LaPierre >Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 5:50 PM >To: centos at centos.org; Mark LaPierre >Subject: Re:

...side i have done these: (1) Created a user named "administrator". Then by using visudo command, i allowed "administrator" to have higher level of access & permission, similar/close to the "root" user, (not exactly same though). http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot (Basically this "administrator" user has maintenance related software running privilege). (2) Created a user named "non-root", a standard/normal user. (3) In /etc/ssh/sshd_config file i have modified the default configurations into this: # File: /etc/ssh/sshd_config port NNN10...