On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:40:12PM -0800, Rick Shepherd wrote: > Two unrelated items: > > > > I have a guy who has lost his root password. As far as I know he has to > reinstall to reset the account. Am I right?
Umm.. is he running linux? If so, either a) boot into single user mode or b) boot from a rescue or knoppix media, chroot into the disk. Then reset the password. Reinstallation of most linux systems is unnecessary unless he's been compromised. > > > > Second, I have another guy - I swear, none of this is me - who creates > files/folders via FTP remotely and wants to access them locally over Samba. > The permissions are being set by VSFTP so that Samba is read only. Under > Samba the permissions are nobody:nobody drwxrwsrwx in this "public" > directory (/home/public). Of course over FTP there is a login/pass and the > stuff created ends up as public:nobody drwxr-sr-x. How can I make a remote > authenticated user create files in a public directory that local users can > have their way with? No clue... would removing his windows systems solve the problem? :-) > > > > Thanks guys, > > > > R > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
