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Thread ID: 75326 2006-12-24 21:53:00 Linux - Working without GUI is like losing right arm.. How do i ???????????? personthingy (1670) Press F1
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509321 2006-12-24 21:53:00 OK
Here's the situation. My personal machine is Linux, infact i own no windows machines. With Bletch's help, i now have a server sitting in my house that serves as a gateway/firewall for me, and a web server for http://chatf1.pcresolutions.co.nz/

We both have root access to it, but without a GUI on the server, i'm lost. Life has just given me a well deserved kick up the **** and told me to start learning instead of being a lazy GUI only user. :)
I can access the machine using fish://root@192.168.0.1/ and paste files in should i so choose, but the files belong to root, not the user, and i have no way of changing this.

Is there a way using command line and SSH access to change the ownership of files?
How do i add a new user?
Change user password?
How do i change apaches settings so /home/new-user-to-be/pub becomes the files served to someone who browses to www.something.net.nz rather than the default /home/chatf1/pub ?

and most importantly, where's the best place to find out this sort of thing so i don't have to annoy people about it here all the time? :p 		personthingy (1670)
509322 2006-12-24 22:10:00 Google should help you with all those questions. but anyway:

Using SSH:
to add a new user (using debian)
(as root) type "adduser [username]" and it will prompt you for all the details
To change the user password: you just type passwd as that user (or as root type passwd [username])
To Change the owner of a file. type chown [username]:[groupname] [filename] (and the group name is often the same as the username)
Apache Settings, that requires a bit of manual configuration file editing, i would recommend either following a howto, or getting someone else (bletch) to do it for you 		Dannz (1668)
509323 2006-12-24 23:12:00 Thanks DanielF, that lot worked a treat :)

And your right, i will leave the apache configuring to Bletch. The mission is to learn this stuff without fixing what isn't already broken. 		personthingy (1670)
509324 2006-12-25 20:38:00 You could always:
mv /home/chatf1/pub /home/chatf1/old_pub
ln -s /home/new-user-to-be/pub /home/chatf1/pub

Or:
mv /home/chatf1/pub /home/chatf1/old_pub
mkdir /home/chatf1/pub
mount --bind /home/new-user-to-be/pub /home/chatf1/pub

Take ya pick ;)

I offer the second option, cause I know that when I was setting up an FTP server it didnt like honoring symlinks that could take you outta your chroot. Not too sure how happy apache would be, but I know its fine with symlinks inside of /var/www/localhost/htdocs/*** on my machines :) Then again, I use Gentoo ;)

Cheers


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
509325 2006-12-25 21:12:00 You could always:
mv /home/chatf1/pub /home/chatf1/old_pub
ln -s /home/new-user-to-be/pub /home/chatf1/pub

Or:
mv /home/chatf1/pub /home/chatf1/old_pub
mkdir /home/chatf1/pub
mount --bind /home/new-user-to-be/pub /home/chatf1/pub

Take ya pick ;)

Chill.Dat's scary!
/home/chatf1 is one area i am NOT touching, apart from changing Xmas trees and removing the snow when too many people complain about the cold making their computers freeze!
We got the revised CF1 running, and i dare not do anything to break it... That's Bletch's department. :D I'm just looking at getting it to do other things, like using it as a test server for a site i am to be building soon, and serving images, etc. All this entirely separate from CF1

O yeah... It's a debian machine, running only whats needed to allow it to run a web-server, amarok (remotely) and serve as the gateway/firewall for my private home network 		personthingy (1670)
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