I'm in a totally new situation.
I have the access on root on a reseller account.
One of the clients for that reseller has a file, he can't modify. Is a file installed with a plugin in wordpress.
That much I understood. He is not the owner of the file. I have to change the owner of that file.
I have shell acces and cron acces but I was not able to use it to solve the problem.
The solution I come out till now, that doesn't work is adding a new cron job(copy and paste from a forum)
#!/bin/bash cd /var/cpanel/users for user in * do chown -R $user.$user /home/$user/public_html/* done
Doesn't work! First of all there is only one line in the cron filed for code so the code above it goes in one line and it looks like is commented. Second, I have no ideea if the cron works. I put my email address to be notified when a cron job is being executed, and I don't get any email.
The only thing I care is to change the ownership of a file.
(Answered by the OP in a question edit. Converted to a community Wiki Answer. See Question with no answers, but issue solved in the comments (or extended in chat) )
The OP wrote:
Solved!
I used http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
Steps:
WinSCP Login/Session Use you data for Hostname, User name and Password
At File Protocol choose SCP
Login/ Click Yes for the key
Go up a directory by clicking ..
Go to Home and there navigate to your files
right click on file and on properties you will find the owner of the
file and there you can change it
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Quoting How to determine if you can write to a file with SFTP because of your group? ,
You could do mode & 00002 to see if a [directory] is writable by the public
and you could get a directory listing to and see if the owner of .
matches the user that you logged in with (although stat doesn't
usually return the longname for SFTPv3 servers, which is what you'd
need to get the username from that) but what about group permissions?
In the answer to that post it was suggested that a better way to test the writeability of a file with SFTP was to actually open that file for writing. eg. something analogous to fopen('filename.ext', 'w');.
My question is... what's the best way to determine the writeability of a directory with SFTP? You can't open a directory for writing like you can a file. My best guess: just attempt to upload a temporary file in the directory in question?
Like maybe use SSH_FXF_CREAT and SSH_FXF_EXCL? Altho the possibility that the file might already exist kinda complicates things. I guess a directory listing could be obtained and then one could attempt to upload a filename that doesn't exist but, the fact that this would require read permissions not withstanding it'd also not work as well if the directory was super large.
Any ideas?
What about a login script which would do a touch on that directory with that user?
If sshd would be used you could use a pam_script (pam auth module to execute a script) simply to simply do a touch testing_file_creation in your directory. You would need to add into your pam sshd configuration.
If the directory would not be writable you would get a message during your login
touch: testing_file_creation: Permission denied. Of course, you could do more fancy stuff with that but this would be the very basic.
using cpanel server, setting a simple "lynx http://www.domain.com/script.php" command gives following error and I am unable to understand it.
Lynx file "/etc/lynx.lss" is not available.
the problem is the SHELL.
You can solve this problem via two ways:
1] I simply changed the sentence:
SHELL="/usr/local/cpanel/bin/jailshell"
in /var/spool/cron/account
to SHELL="/bin/bash"
2] You can copy file /etc/lynx.lss
to directory: /home/virtfs/account/etc
Both worked for me !
Wilhelm
You can create an empty (or not) style sheet file in a directory where you have write access, then explicitly point to that file on the lynx command-line:
lynx -lss=/path/to/my/lynx.lss ...
I enabled shell access for the account and it started working. The above answer seems to assume you have access to the entire server and can modify those files, if so then just enable shell access and you are set, but if you are on a shared hosting account basic cpanel and ftp access you may not be able to do it. Ask you hosting company if you can have shell access. Then decide what you can do depending on the answer they give you.
you can solve this issue by follow below process :-
Open this file
root#server [~]# vi /var/cpanel/exim.conf.deps
and append below entries and save it.
/etc/lynx.lss
I forgot the master-password of my Glassfish 3.1.2.2. Is there a way to reset it? I spent a lot of time "googling around" but i didn't find a suitable answer.
There is a backup password that can be used to access the administrator panel even if you've forgotten the main one.
If you navigate to glassfish\domains\domain1\config\ you will find a file called local-password.
The contents of that file can be used as a password to log in to the control panel as admin.
Please follow the below steps:
Stop the domain
Back up the master password file
Create a new domain and save the master password:
asadmin create-domain --savemasterpassword domain2
Remember the password :-)
Copy the newly created masterpassword file over the old one
Delete the newly created domain:
asadmin delete-domain domain2
FYI, now you should also know why you want to protect the master password file using file permissions :-)
Copy the admin-keyfile from origin install zip (empty password).
This was a big problem for me after inheriting a testing VM from a colleague who left the company. I didn't want to risk creating a new domain as described above and I tried using the contents of local-password file as also described above, but that didn't work for me.
What did work first time was the following on GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.2.2 (build 5). Change contents of this file:
$GLASSFISH_HOME$\glassfish\domains\domain1\config\admin-keyfile
with:
admin;{SSHA}WQVj8i9CLECCiv+w6ZxGgMrcfPqHPoXZW+2Jdw==;asadmin
I didn't add a newline or carriage return at the end of the line.
This is my modification of an online solution.
For Glassfish 4, after creating domain2 with default passwords, I also had to copy keystore.jks and domain-passwords files along with the master-password before change-master-password would recognise the password.
Is there a way to gain root access without user input?
I want a script automatically looks at a stored password, then authenticates with that password. Is there a way to do this without user input? I tried man su and man sudo, but these don't support this. Is this possible?
P.S: I know python, sh and bash.
Check out this link. It explains how to do this in python. Root Access Python
The basic of it is changing the permission of the script itself.
Option 1 - Use cron
If the script is a cron job, it can be kicked off by root's crontab. Then it is automatically running as root. Be REALLY careful though as you are running as root. Anyone who can change your script has just become root.
Option 2 - Set up a new id
If the task can be done by a non-root user, you don't actually need root each time.
I'm moving from an old shared host to a dedicated server at MediaTemple. The server is running Plesk CP, but, as far as I can tell, there's no way via the Interface to do what I want to do.
On the old shared host, running cPanel, I creative a .zip archive of all the website's files. I downloaded this to my computer, then uploaded it with FTP to the new host account I'd set up.
Finally, I logged in via SSH, navigated to the directory the zip was stored in (something like var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/ and ran the unzip command on the file sitearchive.zip. This extracted everything just the fine. The site appeared to work just fine.
The problem: When I tried to edit a file through FTP, I got Error - 160: Permission Denied. When I Get Info for the file I'm trying to edit, it says the owner and group is swimwir1.
I attemped to use chown at this point to change owner - and yes, as you may be able to tell, I'm a little inexperienced in SSH ;) luckily the server was new, since the command I ran - chown -R newuser / appeared to mess a load of stuff up. The reason I used / on the end rather than /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/ was because I'd already cded into their, so I presumed the / was relative to where I was working. This may be the case, I have no idea, either way - Plesk was no longer accessible, although Apache and things continued to work. I realised my mistake, and deciding it wasn't worth the hassle of 1) being an amateur and 2) trying to fix it, I just reprovisioned the server to start afresh.
So - what do I do to change the owner of these files correctly?
Thanks for helping out a confused beginner!
Jack
Your command does indeed specify an absolute path to the root of the filesystem. Any path that begins with a '/' is absolute. You need:
chown -R newuser .
or:
chown -R newuser /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs