Questions tagged [unprivileged]
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How to build application without sudo privileges?
What do I need to setup on a Ubuntu 9.10 server so that a user can build applications of there choice (i.e. ./configure , make && make install) with out the need for sudo/admin privileges.
I just feel its a bit of a security risk having to give a…
RC1140
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Can't perform regular sudo commands, have to use su now
I'm an Ubuntu newbie I just installed 10.10 and I don't know what I did but now to perform actions that required sudo privileges (open synaptic, mount device, run apt-get install, etc) the OS won't let me saying I don't have enough privileges, for…
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Nested unprivilaged lxc containers from upstart that its owner can stop
In a host running Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS I have an user named ci that can create an start unprivilaged lxc containers also running Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. The user has the subid range 200000-231071. The configuration file of such a container is:
#…
Ivan Ogai
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How to expand the privileged port range past 1024?
Port numbers under 1024 are reserved for superuser, so a normal user cannot bind to ports in the range.
And a range of ports that the system will assign random bind requests from can be set in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range So I can reserve…
Joseph Santaniello
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Why can ubuntu perform a shutdown from the GUI even though it is prive on the command line?
Possible Duplicate:
Difference between menu shutdown and 'shutdown -h now'
Why can ubuntu perform a shutdown from the GUI even though it is prive on the command line?
By what mechanism does it do so?
awiebe
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How can I install a Gnome Applet without privileges
I would like to install stackapplet, but I don't have superuser privileges to install the deb file and the admins will not install it for me.
I'm confident that I must be able to install this applet without privileges, but I can't seem to find a…
Peter Smit
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PPTPD on lxd unprivileged container
There is lxd-3.0.3 unprivileged (containers with uid shift started by root) on
Ubuntu-18.04 (amd64). In container there is Ubuntu-16.04.5 (amd64).
How to configure pptpd on it? It seems that there is problem with ppp0 interface. It is not…
user2772439
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Non privileged user launch SSH?
My server got hacked, and as a result the server guys decided that my apache user would be one called 'nonpriv' which has no privileges at all.
Before that happened, I had a user that run apache which had lots of privileges. I used that user to…
Hommer Smith
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"/etc/init.d/networking restart" with non-root user
I have a thin client with 112mb RAM which boots ubuntu server 12.04.1 from a usb drive with openbox and it is to be used by students to communicate with cisco equipment. And because of this the students need to be able to reconfigure the network…
bonchen
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How to apply resource limitations per nonroot user in Ubuntu 24.04 with Cgroups V2?
Even though we apply the resource limitations using the unified hierarchy for the corresponding user slice, the expected limitation does not happen.
Can we accomplish putting limitations user-wise using CGroups v2 on Ubuntu 24.04?
G. Raven
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Will NAT bridged LXC unprivileged containers routes the http calls to host http server via the lan network?
User A has a http server running on host Ubuntu machine with IP "HostIP" and port 8081.
Now user A creates an unprivileged lxc container (container1)
User A logs into lxc-attach -n container1.
Now the root user inside the container1 makes a call…
