How to add a ssh user who only has permissions to access specific folder?
How to add an ssh user who only has permissions to access specific folder?
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What is the difference between user and service account?
I would like to know difference between user and service account.
In /etc/group what is the meaning of the second field?
A sample /etc/group file contains the following entries:
Does a user have to log in to run a process and become its owner?
In general, does a user have to log in to run a process and become its owner (ruid, or euid)? Does this apply to any user or any non-root user?
For example:
Is it bad practice to set root’s shell to something other than the default?
Once a friend of mine (who is an experienced Unix/Linux user) told me that setting root’s shell to something other than sh (i.e bash or zsh) might create problems, because some script might assume that the shell is sh and do something weird.
How do you kick a benign user off your system?
I was googling this a bit ago and noticed a couple of ways, but I’m guessing that google doesn’t know all. So how do you kick users off your Linux box? also how do you go about seeing they are logged in in the first place? and related… does your method work if the user is logged into an X11 DE (not a requirement I’m just curious)?
Allow user1 to “su – user2” without password
I need to allow user martin to switch to user martin-test without password
How can I create an SFTP user in CentOS?
I’d like to give temporary SFTP access to a support guy. How do I create an SFTP user? And how can I delete it once the job is done?
What’s the difference between a normal user and a system user?
Some documentation I’m going through has a boolean switch on whether or not a user is a ‘system’ user or a ‘normal’ user (defaulting to ‘normal’).
Difference between sudo user and root user
The /etc/sudoers file lists which users can do what with the sudo command The root user creates and modifies the /etc/sudoers file. This concept is difficult for me to understand. If all users having sudo privilage belong to sudoers group, then all of them can become root by giving the sudo su command. Then who … Read more