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    Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

      But as mentioned by @wirestyle22 - doing that can break things.. like on Windows, if the user is using Bitlocker to encrypt things.. the key will be lost.

      If a user doesn't exist, and is needed, it's already broken and they need to find out.

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      • wirestyle22W
        wirestyle22
        last edited by wirestyle22

        I found them randomly. Now I have to figure out how to update them once I figure out what needs to be taking place. Not strong with scripting but that will need to change.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
          last edited by

          @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

          I found them randomly. Now I have to figure out how to update them once I figure out what needs to be taking place. Not strong with scripting but that will need to change.

          Then post the script, no shame in asking for help.

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          • stacksofplatesS
            stacksofplates
            last edited by stacksofplates

            You can always do a find /home -executable -type f for future reference. You could then pipe that to grep for keywords.

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            • wirestyle22W
              wirestyle22 @stacksofplates
              last edited by

              @stacksofplates said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

              You can always do a find /home -executable -type f for future reference. You could then pipe that to grep for keywords.

              Didn't know this. Thanks

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              • wirestyle22W
                wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
                last edited by

                @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                I found them randomly. Now I have to figure out how to update them once I figure out what needs to be taking place. Not strong with scripting but that will need to change.

                Then post the script, no shame in asking for help.

                I will when I'm ready to in a new thread. I have some other stuff to take care of now as well.

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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch @wirestyle22
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                  @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @coliver No unfortunately.

                  Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                  The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                  Very inconvenient

                  The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                  How do you do into Windows as another user without their password? or resetting their password to something you know?

                  net user name password

                  Doesn't that just offer you the ability to change the password?

                  No that changes the password. But you'd only ever do this if you HAD to login as SAID user. Otherwise you login as the admin and just grant yourself permissions to the user profile and files.

                  In this case to access the history you'd need to correct

                  No you do not need the user password ever.

                  Stop listening to @DustinB3403 as he is just spewing randomly.

                  @scottalanmiller already told you what to do.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @JaredBusch
                    last edited by

                    @JaredBusch said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                    Stop listening to @DustinB3403 as he is just spewing randomly.

                    I never said he needed the user password, I said he could change the user password if he wanted to login as that user and didn't know what it was.

                    🖕

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @coliver No unfortunately.

                      Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                      The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                      Very inconvenient

                      So someone left / was termed?

                      su root
                      sudo passwd [login] [new pass]

                      Even easier...

                      sudo -i su username

                      Right there. There was no reason to do shit randomly.

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @Dashrender
                        last edited by

                        @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                        The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                        What goes for Windows too?
                        that you can
                        a) log in as a user without knowing the password
                        b) rest the user's password?

                        obviously we know that we as admins can do 'b'... but I read Scott's comment to say he's talking about 'a'

                        Oh FFS, stop cluttering up threads randomly. The fucking platform has a reply as topic button. Use it.

                        You little side rant about windows was nothing but confusing in a thread about fucking Linux.

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                        • IRJI
                          IRJ
                          last edited by

                          This thread really got shit on .....

                          The proper thing to do is to use your privilege account to search for the file. You must know some keywords or something associated with this file.

                          As you are not familar with bash, let me clarify what @stacksofplates said.

                          Run this to search for "app-agent".

                          find /home -executable -type f | grep app-agent

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                          • wirestyle22W
                            wirestyle22 @IRJ
                            last edited by

                            @IRJ At this point it's a miracle I'm not into scatplay

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
                              last edited by

                              @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                              @IRJ At this point it's a miracle I'm not into scatplay

                              What's scat have to do with this?

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                              • wirestyle22W
                                wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
                                last edited by

                                @DustinB3403

                                @IRJ said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                This thread really got shit on .....

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
                                  last edited by

                                  @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                  @DustinB3403

                                  @IRJ said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                  This thread really got shit on .....

                                  Oh well, I mean if you're into kinky stuff, you should probably jump on chat roulette.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @JaredBusch
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                                    @JaredBusch said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                    @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                    The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                                    What goes for Windows too?
                                    that you can
                                    a) log in as a user without knowing the password
                                    b) rest the user's password?

                                    obviously we know that we as admins can do 'b'... but I read Scott's comment to say he's talking about 'a'

                                    Oh FFS, stop cluttering up threads randomly. The fucking platform has a reply as topic button. Use it.

                                    You little side rant about windows was nothing but confusing in a thread about fucking Linux.

                                    read more of the fucking thread before blasting - because your rant has already come and gone.
                                    🙂

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                                    • BRRABillB
                                      BRRABill @DustinB3403
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                                      @DustinB3403 said

                                      Then post the script, no shame in asking for help.

                                      No but you might get badgered into oblivion.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403 @BRRABill
                                        last edited by

                                        @BRRABill said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                        @DustinB3403 said

                                        Then post the script, no shame in asking for help.

                                        No but you might get badgered into oblivion.

                                        What's that supposed to mean? Generally speaking, we're here to help not to harass.

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                                        • jt1001001J
                                          jt1001001
                                          last edited by

                                          last week I had to find a scrip in our etc folder that contained an IP address. Google Fu found the following:
                                          grep -rnw '/etc/' -e '{put ip address in these quotes}'
                                          If you know what the script contains, maybe a key word you could use this for finding it

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                                          • Emad RE
                                            Emad R @wirestyle22
                                            last edited by

                                            @wirestyle22

                                            usually they are stored in /usr/local/bin

                                            that is why you can run them anywhere

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