Can't run as root without the -u switch

FerdieQO

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When running a command on my VPS via SSH, I faced with this error

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can't run as root without the -u switch
never get this error before. What it is? why causes this error and how to solve it?


Thanks
 

LJSHost

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What command are you trying to run ?
 

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FerdieQO
I could not remember what software I installed on my VPS and got this error when running commands for them.
but sometimes it happened when I ran commands to config software, Its weird because I have faced this error years ago. For nextimes I will note down where I got this error.
 

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the binary you are trying to run cannot be executed as root, it needs to be run as a user.
e.g. 'memcached -d -u nobody -m 1024 -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211' memcached runs as user 'nobody'
 

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Some VPS providers might require you to login to an account (an administrator account) that they provided you, after that you need to use -u switch to log into root account.
I have ever used this way on a VPS provider in the past but never do it again with current VPS providers recent years.
 

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When running a command on my VPS via SSH, I faced with this error

Code:
can't run as root without the -u switch
never get this error before. What it is? why causes this error and how to solve it?


Thanks

Hi.

When you enter login to SSH , did you use "root" ?
 

well-web

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May be your OS Ubuntu/Debian
Try, please:

"sudo need_commnand"
and put your root pass.
 

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