Change hostname to null in linux [closed] - linux

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I downloaded elf file on the server but, it checks whether the file is executing on the server or not.
By debugging it with gdb and i found that there is a 'gethostname' function and if the function returns 0 the file stop with the message 'Running on an illegal host'.
Searching from internet 'gethostname' return -1 when the hostname is null.
So how can i change my hostname to return -1 and execute the program?
or is there any ways to return -1 without changing my hostname to null?

If you know which hostname is accepted by the "elf file", you can change the hostname of your system with the "hostname" command.
If you don't want to change the hostname globally, you can run your program in a LXC container into which you can change the hostname.
If running a container is heavy or difficult, you can run your "elf file" in a brand new UTS namespace with a command like "unshare" :
$ sudo unshare -u /bin/bash # Run a bash in a new UTS namespace
# hostname foo # Change hostname in the new UTS namespace
# ... Run your program ...
# exit # exit the shell and go back to original UTS namespace

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No remote commands executed when ssh runs as sudo [closed]

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The following command gives the expected result (file is created):
sshpass -p pas ssh root#host 'touch foo'
But the following one does nothing on the remote host:
sudo sshpass -p pas ssh root#host 'touch foo'
The only difference here is just sudo mode.
What is the reason here? And how this can be solved?
The problem is more visible when running ssh -v.
With sudo communication interrupts after detecting the server host key.
To solve the problem ssh needs to run with the following argument -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no".

Bash script check permissions to run command on remote [closed]

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I have a local development machine and from my bash script am sending commands to the remote server.
How can I write bash code to check if I am allowed to run the remote command so that I can handle the success/failure response from my script?
Alternatively, how can I capture the output so that I can parse it and detect if it succeeded. The difficulty with parsing is that the ssh command might trigger a password prompt so I can't interfere with that.
That bash script uses ssh -qt to send the remote commands
Command
ssh user#host -qt "sudo -u www /usr/local/bin/php /mnt/data/script.php"
Output:
[sudo] password for xxx:
Sorry, user xxx is not allowed to execute '/usr/local/bin/php /mnt/data/script.php' as www on host.domain.com
Assuming that user != root above: you can't - there's no way to read /etc/sudoers or /etc/sudoers.d/* in a normally set-up Linux box if you're not root, so apart from trial & error there's nothing to be done.
As for capturing the result - that's fairly simple (parsing it, of course, is a different story, depending on what you're doing over there).
output=$( ssh user#host -qt "sudo -u www /usr/local/bin/php /mnt/data/script.php" 2>&1 )
After the execution (and you typing the password for sudo)
echo $? # gives you the return-code of what happened on the far end, if it's a success that should be 0
echo $output # gives you the strings to parse

How to set up an SSH Server on OS X [closed]

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I'm planning on making a Bash script that sets up an SSH server. The script is only meant to work on a computer running OS X. With the research I have conducted it seems like you have to use the GUI to enable SSH. Is their a way to enable SSH through Terminal and then create a script that does so?
You can enable it from the command line (or a shell script) with:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist
You might also want to regulate access to the ssh service with the com.apple.access_ssh group:
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a usernametoallow -t user com.apple.access_ssh
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a otherusernametoallow -t user com.apple.access_ssh
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a groupnametoallow -t group com.apple.access_ssh
...after which only usernametoallow, otherusernametoallow, and members of groupnametoallow will be able to ssh into the Mac.

How do I check if a port is open between two Linux servers? [closed]

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How do you check if a port is open when you cannot use telnet or install Cacti? I want to see if a port is open between two Linux servers. Telnet isn't installed. I tried this command:
cat < /dev/tcp/x.x.x.x/6061
where x.x.x.x was the remote IP address of the Linux server and port 6061 is the port that I want to test. But based on tests of known working and not working ports, this command wasn't conclusive to me. There may be an environmental explanation for that.
Install nmap and than:
nmap x.x.x.x
Better use (if installed) : netcat :
nc -zw3 <host> <port>
If you want to use the bash feature net redirection :
cat < /dev/tcp/x.x.x.x/6061
do it the right way :
{ exec 3<> /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/6061; } &>/dev/null &&
echo "Connection to socket OK" ||
echo >&2 "Can't connect"
If it doesn't work, you need to compile bash with --enable-net-redirections

Loging with SSH with a different user, shows no current path [closed]

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I am trying to get a server up and running, there is no problem when I am using my root user, however when I created a new user and I log in with him instead of getting
user#internet:/$
I am only geting $ and I can't see the folder in which I am.
The server is running ubuntu if that helps.
Your new user is probably using a different shell. You can check by typing $0 at the prompt in each.
It sounds like root is using bash and your new user is using sh, but do the above to check.
If you want to modify the login shell for your new user, use usermod with the -s flag:
usermod user -s /bin/bash
The above would set the default shell to bash.
It's because your user runs sh as default shell.
Run as root:
chsh -s /bin/bash your_user
And login again.

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