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How will IPv6 impact everyday users? (World IPv6 Day)
With the current (one hour in at the moment) trial by all the big boys (Google, Facebook, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) I wondered how IPv6 will effect home users and the Internet as a whole.
Will the change ...
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How can I create a user with read-only access to all files? (ie root without writing permissions)
For backing up my server, I would like to remotely access it via SSH. To minimize all risks, it want to user a user who only has read access, but to all files, just like root. However, he shouldn't ...
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how do I see which user I am logged in as in MySQL?
I have multiple text console session open and log in as different users into different consoles. I forget after while which consoles belong to which user, it would be nice to not have to quit and log ...
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How can I create an SSH user who only has permission to access specific folders in Ubuntu?
I installed SSH, but I found if I use my original account to login to Ubuntu, it has too many permissions.
I want to constrain the user to only have permissions for specific folders in Ubuntu. How ...
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Run part of a bash script as a different user
Is there a way to make part of a script run as a different (non-root) user? If it helps , the part to be run as a different user occurs at the end of the script
Edit :
OS -> Ubuntu 9.04
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Ubuntu: limiting user account only to access his home dir
I just created new user account, but the new user is able to access all the directories structure (including other's home directories). I'd like to limit the user to access ONLY his home directory ...
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Is it possible for root to execute a command as non-root
I am root user and suppose i want to run any application as another user. is it possible, without switching to another user.
Something like
# google-chrome user=abc
I am actually executing a cli ...
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Is Remote\username same as ComputerName\username or username in windows 7/xp?
Is there any difference if I log in as:
username
computername\username
remote\username
domainname\username
something\username
I want my computer to behave differently depending how I log in. Is ...
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How to run 'ifconfig wlan0 down/up' with a comm user?
I need to run ifconfig wlan0 down and ifconfig wlan0 up with my common user.
How can I perform this?
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Skype status always appears offline for one user
I have one Skype contact who always appears to be offline, even when he's online. We've chatted regularly over Skype for years without any issues, except for the fact that he always appears to be ...
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XAMPP phpMyAdmin failed with #2002
New test server running Windows 7 64 bit. I installed XAMPP and created a seperate user other than the root.
When I created another account and initiated XAMPP I was able to get localhost but when ...
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Create a Windows XP user from a linux partition
Long story short, someone repaired my brother's computer and set a password on his account, now we can't get in and can't contact the person who set the password.
Is it possible to create a Windows ...
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Windows Vista Login results in Clean Profile
recently whenever I login to my 10-month old account on Windows Vista the desktop launches brand new. As if the account was created 10 seconds before. The user account picture and desktop picture is ...
