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[Dr. Mikeal Hughes]

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> On Jan 26, 2017, at 13:22, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 12:46:11 -0600
> "Dr. Mikeal Hughes" <macmikeal at me.com> wrote:
> 
> at the bottom of every email through this list is a URL like this:
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> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users  
> 
> and if you look there you'll find an archive of everyone's emails
> including yours and others' on your topic. There'll be a copy of the
> thread you can't find.
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>>> On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:03 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 09:08:07AM -0600, Dr. Mikeal Hughes wrote:  
>>>> I am trying to find out some specific configuration for OpenSSH. I
>>>> recently had my Ubuntu Server crash. Turns out my backup the boot
>>>> sector was the wrong type UEFI instead of BIOS so I couldn't
>>>> restore and get it to work. So I had to reinstall the Server plus
>>>> decided to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04. Anyway I have 4 issues I
>>>> need to resolve. 1. When I try to SSH into the server I get
>>>> unable, to connect with server, please try again later.  
>>> 
>>> I already made a suggestion in your previous thread about how you
>>> could get more information on this.  
>> 
>> Let me see if I can find that thread.
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 2. For some reason setting at the Server I can only do things if I
>>>> am the root user. Sudo doesn't work.  My account is an
>>>> administrator.  
>>> 
>>> What exactly does sudo say?  
>> 
>> I am not in front of the Server right now. But basically says I am
>> not a Sudoer.
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 3. Even from root I can't get to the root directory by cd / to be
>>>> able to edit my php.ini file to increase maximum upload limit for
>>>> wordpress.  I am thinking I need to run chmod on the root directory
>>>> and set my permissions to say 755 to get to the php.ini file(?).  
>>> 
>>> That sounds quite confused; php.ini should not be in your actual
>>> root directory.  Normally the "root" visible from an FTP or a web
>>> server is not actually the root of the server's file system, but a
>>> "virtual root" somewhere underneath that.  If you're poking at it
>>> directly then you need to determine where that is.  
>> 
>> I was thinking when I looked at my backup drive I found the php.ini
>> file in the root. I don’t know the command line command to find it. I
>> remember someone told me the command three years ago but don’t
>> remember.
>>> 
>>>> I am not sure how to put my user macmike in a group where I can use
>>>> sudo.  
>>> 
>>> I already gave you instructions for that in your previous thread.
>>> 
>> I have to find that previous post. 
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