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In what condition, should I create a system user instead of a normal user?
From the adduser command, I saw the option --system to create a system user. A system user will use /bin/false and by default belong to nogroup. It also won’t copy the /etc/skel to the home directory....
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change account’s main domain in directadmin
Before anything I should acknowledge that my question was not understandable enough. So I totally edited that I have a VPS with DirectAdmin control panel. One of my users had registered with...
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FTP doesn’t allow /usr/sbin/nologin user
I want to setup a ftp for couple of ftp-only users with vsftpd. I configured the FTP to enable local user access. It works fine. But once I edit the users’ shell to /usr/sbin/nologin, it couldn’t log...
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When is directadmin user detail (especially bandwidth) updated? Possible to...
I hope it be the right place for asking about Directadmin, cpanel and other moderation web application. (I’ve deleted my question from pro webmaster site at http://webmasters.stackexchange.com and...
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Messed up Linux permissions – how to fix?
I was doing an rsync and accidently reversed the command so it overwrote a bunch a files from our backup server on the main server. The backup server is in a chroot jail so it overwrote these files:...
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Apache – Why my apache user is a number?
$ ps aux | grep httpd1003 22806 0.0 0.3 17624 7684 ? S May25 0:00 /opt/web/apache/bin/httpd -k start 1003 4834 0.0 0.3 17624 7684 ? S May28 0:00 /opt/web/apache/bin/httpd -k start 1003 5299 0.0 0.3...
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Running apache + mod_wsgi as different user
I have a django project, which I am moving from the dev-server to apache. I have managed to get it server with mod_wsgi, but it runs as apache. Mod_wsgi documentation says, that if apache is run as...
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MySQL and User level logging
I have been looking at logging only certain users activity in MySQL. I found that the logging could be enabled or disabled for all users but one of the service using the db does a lot of queries and...
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Why adding new user to Remote desktop group doesn’t automatically creates him...
I am administrating a remote Windows Server 2008 Standard. I have already 17 users in ‘Remote Desktop Users’ and all of them have home folders in c:\users. But when I’ve added the 18th user it didn’t...
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switch user doesnt work, after creating user
I’m rather new to the whole setting up a server, and hardening a server thing, but I had to start today. I mainly have experience with my ubuntu desktop. Anyway, I just created a new user, that I...
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