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Greetings On centos 5, if I ssh in as a regular non-superuser account and go to the sbin dir to issue a reboot command, it wont do it as says you must be superuser If you are on the console logged in as a non-superuser account and do the same thing, it will reboot. Is this a feature, or a bug? - rh

...), including the following line to disable roaming profiles everywhere: logon path = Thanks to Josh Ginsberg and company for that one! Now I have created one logon user and have logged on successfully from a Win2k/pro machine without incident. However, this user does not have Administrator privaledges on the windows machine. I need a samba domain user that logs in and has all the privaledges that a local "Administrator" user has. Is this possible? I would think this should be configurable on the server, as authentication is all done via SMB/CIFS. Am I right? I have investigate...

There is a rather rambling tutorial at: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp14admin/rsync/ (this does not have ssh tunnelling in there) Though for the following - if the files are owned by root - root will be the only one able to rsync them across? Maybe creating a special account with some extra file privaledges but not 100% root could get the job done for you? Lachlan. > I need to set-up something to syncronise (say every hour) a set of ftp and > config files between two servers and rsync seems to be the prog for the job > (for a HA ftp server using Pro-ftp). > > But so far, unless i r...

I'm stuck on a problem with rsync... We've got a chrooted shell with rsync and all the needed libs inside (and not much else). We're using rsync over ssh to send the files into this chrooted session. The rsync binary in the chrooted session is SUID root so that it can create the files with the correct UID/GID. When the following is run, it creates all the files as root.staff, not