ESX VM - How to reset your password in Ubuntu

1, You need  hold down the Shift key during bootup.

2, From the boot menu, select recovery mode.

3, After you select recovery mode, then select "root shell prompt".

4, add user and passwd 

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squid add Password Authentication Using NCSA

1, generate /etc/squid/squid_passwd file

htpasswd -c /etc/squid/squid_passwd www

2, [root@localhost ~]# vim /etc/squid/squid.conf
a, Add this to the auth_param section of squid.conf
auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/squid_passwd

b, add this line in the buttom of acl
acl ncsa_users proxy_auth REQUIRED

c, add this line in the top of http_access
http_access allow ncsa_users

start cvs

[root@NTRCVS ~]#  CVSROOT=/cvs/CVSROOT/
[root@NTRCVS ~]# export CVSROOT
[root@NTRCVS ~]# /etc/init.d/xinetd stop
Stopping xinetd:                                           [  OK  ]
[root@NTRCVS ~]# /etc/init.d/xinetd start

cvs Permission denied

Error message:

Logging in to :pserver:wu@172.22.113.181:2401/cvs
CVS password: 
[zh@localhost ~]$ rm -rf DRS-1.0/
[zh@localhost ~]$ cvs checkout -r flbranch DRS-1.0
cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/DRS-1.0' (/cvs/DRS-1.0/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/DRS-1.0'
cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

Solution:

Need to add user to cvs group

[root@NTRCVS ~]# usermod -a -G cvs wu
[root@NTRCVS ~]# id wu
uid=501(wu) gid=501(wu) groups=501(wu),502(cvs)
 

Move CVS

Instruction for Move CVS to different box or backup CVS - CentOS

1,  install CVS
 yum install cvs

2, create cvs group and user
useradd -G cvs cvs

3, set CVSROOT environment variable

CVSROOT=/cvs/CVSROOT/
export CVSROOT

4, generate CVSROOT
cvs -d /cvs/CVSROOT init

5 setup the CVS server. It will be launched by Xinetd
[root@NTRCVS ~]# vim /etc/xinetd.d/cvs
# default: off
# description: The CVS service can record the history of your source \
#              files. CVS stores all the versions of a file in a single \
#              file in a clever way that only stores the differences \
#              between versions.
service cvspserver
{
        disable                 = no
        port                    = 2401
        socket_type             = stream
        protocol                = tcp
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        passenv                 = PATH
        server                  = /usr/bin/cvs
        env                     = HOME=/cvs
        server_args             = -f --allow-root=/cvs pserver
#       bind                    = 127.0.0.1
}



6,run cvs server
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart