Tag: root
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Snippet to check root privileges
Snippet to use in your scripts to execute them only if you have root privileges. if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then echo “Superuser privileges are required to run this script.” echo “e.g. \”sudo $0\”” exit 1 fi
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Change password for mysql root user on debian
You can perform the password change with mysqladmin command mysqladmin -u root password “newpwd” mysqladmin -u root -h host_name password “newpwd”