How to Disable Direct Root Login to Secure Your Network

December 30th, 2007 Use the command below as root after replacing new-login-name and old-login-name appropriately: usermod -l new-login-name old-login-name For NIS accounts don't forget to run: cd /var/yp make

August 26th, 2006 In two simple steps: 1. Login as root.

May 15th, 2007 Several years ago I noticed a big issue with NIS security at Sun, which I promptly reported hoping for a patch. Today I found out it is still there.

April 20th, 2008 1. Login to the Admin account (not the normal account) 2. Open up a command shell in the Terminal application by selecting - Macintosh HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal At the command prompt type this command: sudo passwd root You will then get the following prompts.

April 20th, 2008 Let's look at all the ways to change MySQL password, for root and other users: In MySQL the default password is empty. This is inherently unsafe and should be immediately changed.

November 3rd, 2008 Today I am going to tell you the trick to hack your root passoword in Linux if you are too forgetful to remember it or you have legal permission to enter a server run by a different admin and by any chance he forgot to give you the root password. Those Who Have GRUB bootloader The first step is to reboot server.

January 17th, 2009 If you have never set a root password for MySQL, the server does not require a password at all for connecting as root. To set up a root password for the first time, use the mysqladmin command at the shell prompt as follows: $ mysqladmin -u root password newpass If you want to change (or update) a root password, then you need to use the following command: $ mysqladmin -u root -p oldpassword newpass I hope this will work for you perfectly.

September 1st, 2007 Try: mysql -e status|grep 'Server version' If that doesn't work then use: mysql -u root -p -e status|grep 'Server version' Provide root password when prompted. Default root password for MySQL is empty string, so just pressing enter when prompted for password will suffice by default.

May 31st, 2008 Login as or su to root and run: yum -y install pcre zlib lighttpd That's it folks! Note: The -y saves you from ok'ing the download & installation.

May 26th, 2007 rdiff-backup is a popular, free, open source mirroring and incremental backup system for posix based operating systems like linux & Mac OS X. It uses rysnc algorithm through librsync but it doesn't use rsync.

August 21st, 2007 A guide to easily disable IPv6 support on your Linux workstation / server: 1. Add the two lines, if not already present, to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off For Fedora 7 you should add the command to blacklist instead as shown below: blacklist net-pf-10 Note: I haven't personally tested on Fedora 7.

September 14th, 2009 You may find several instructions to autostart synergyc during login and after login. I had a hard time using them.

June 29th, 2006 I learnt a hard lesson today on mod_rewrite. I haven't had time to explore further to find the root cause.

August 26th, 2005 One of the strong security concerns in shared hosting environments is whether your sensitive data like MySQL server login/password or other login/password is actually safe from other users sharing the same web hosting machine. Few shared hosting providers do not provide telnet/ssh.

October 23rd, 2006 First of all I want to make it clear that having a MySQL database without a password set (on your root account) is a very very bad idea. However I wanted to set it up on my home machine which has XAMPP installed.