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How can I generate a private key for an account set up by yum?
I am using EC2 and am new to the world of Linux, and I've looked for an answer to this but I think I'm just not sure how to ask the question correctly.
I have installed Jenkins and git using yum, ...
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Exchange Email Delete / Recreation Issue
So I was having issues with a users mailbox to the point where I couldn't solve what was wrong so I deleted the account. I recreated the account with the same email address. Now users trying to email ...
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Where IIS keeps user account info?
Where does IIS keep user account information ( login and password )?
Does IIS keep the information in the Windows SAM file?
Is there a way to prevent hackers from getting it?
I have heard IIS is ...
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service account - prevent misuse via drive mappings
I am deploying an application which scans files. Our systems access management team will provide a Windows non interactive service account so the app can access file shares. They've just told me that ...
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How to disable account lockout policy on server 2008?
We've played around with the account lockout policy but it did not turn out to be a great idea. We have one account that's being used by 100+ computers and every now and then it gets locked.
We ...
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cPanel Moving mails to another host
I need to transfer about 20 addon domains and their email accounts to new host where I already have some sites, mail accounts, databases etc..
For some reason, I think that my best bet is to transfer ...
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Any way to allow local computer login to access domain network remotely?
I am setting up a laptop for a customer (Windows 7). He needs to be able to access SQL server on his office network while on the road.
What we are trying to do:
Since he will be out of the office, he ...
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change account's main domain in directadmin
Before anything I should acknowledge that my question was not understandable enough. So I totally edited that
I have a VPS with DirectAdmin control panel.
One of my users had registered with ...
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How to give user root access without giving him root password
The scenario is this:
I have a development machine I want (need) to have root access to
Our admin setups the machines using his own credentials for the root user. The explanation being that if ...
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Creating a forwarding account in Postfix
I have to create a forwarding mail account on a Ubuntu system using Postfix.
I have scoured Google and everything I've found seems to point at doing all of this work through MySQL. According to ps ...
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lastcomm command shows no results
I'm trying to monitor a user's activities on my Debian server.
I found, after Googling that the acct package should help me log all commands and let me filter them by user.
I installed the package, ...
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Linux: disabled user accounts: Is there a non-root shell command that can show if an account is disabled or not?
Is there a non-root shell command that can tell me if a user's account is disabled or not?
Please note that I make a distinction between LOCKING and DISABLED:
LOCKING is where you prepend ! or * or ...
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what to do if i accidentally reset the computer account
I'm not the domain admin, but I thought I could handle a simple task, and apparently I thought wrong, how I need assistance.
A computer was locked and we needed to login to shutdown a program that ...
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Cluster service account password change
I have four different cluster running in our enviroment. Cluster is runing in active/passive mode. All cluster services account is a domain user account. cluster services is running as same account ...
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Whats the meaning of sambaNTPassword in a machine account?
After running samba3 for quite some time I was wondering what the exact meaning of sambaNTPassword in a samba machine account in the LDAP Database is. I never set it myself (Samba must have set it, ...
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Clone windows account privileges
I need to create few domain accounts to run my applications under. The accounts should be equivalent to standard accounts like NETWORKSERVICE and IIS APPPOOL\ASP.NET v4.0. How can i easily do that ...
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Backup and Restore of Machine Account (Active Directory)
I have an XP Workstation which is member of an AD Domain. I have to reinstall Windows XP on the machine.
After that I should ask the Domain Admin to re-join the machine to the domain. Is there any way ...
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don't have “sufficient right” to my own TFS 2010
after I removed an active directory domain service, I lost all my accounts...then not only the SQL server and the TFS stopped working, the TFs administration console also says that I don't have ...
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Accidentally deactivated Administrator account in Windows Server 2008 VM
I logged in to a Windows Server 2008 VirtualBox VM as Abbas (local, standard-user account), ran cmd.exe as Administrator and then deactivated the Administrator through:
net user administrator ...
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LDAP Account Locked Out Sporadically after Password change - Finding the source of invalid attempts
On a small network of machines (<1000) we have a user whose account is being locked out after an indeterminate interval following a password change.
We are having severe difficulties finding the ...
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How to make my normal account can execute `sudo`?
I installed bare-bone FreeBSD, and added a new user. And added sudo package with command pkg_add -r sudo.
When I logged into the box with new user account, it cannot run sudo command. What procedure ...
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CentOS mysql user
I'm completely confused with the CentOS's mysql server. It's 5.0.77 from CentOS 5.5.
I can't seem to create a user on that server. I've disabled the old_password option and restarted. I created a new ...
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how to restore access to MySQL after deleting all privileges?
Ok, I know I'm stupid. I deleted all privileges to MySQL, I have access to root account on host. Is there any way to add account to mysql?
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Creating multiple Gmail Accounts
To check my application in a software testing environment , prior to launch where it requires the mail sending functionality to different email and in order to check multiple scenarios, i need to ...
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Novell eDirectory—How can I aggregate account lockout events?
I'm seeing an account become locked out pretty frequently and I wanted to pull an aggregated log together of all of the lockout events so I could get a better idea of what times it's occurring. ...
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Configuring email - when i send out email they all come from ACCOUNT@www.mydomain.com instead of ACCOUNT@domain.com. Is this an alias problem?
Configuring email - when i send out email they all come from ACCOUNT@www.mydomain.com instead of ACCOUNT@domain.com. Is this an alias problem?
Do i need to configure my dns or mail server in a ...
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How can I use mobile network account at server so home sync works
I would like to be able to use a mobile network account while sitting at my server.
I had os x server 10.6 running on a mac mini server but recently got a new quad core iMac and want to take ...
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SQL Server account per-table privileges
Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008, is it possible for a SQL Server account to be given privileges on a per-table basis within a database? For example, to have read access to all tables but write access ...
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Difference between forcing a password change and an expired password
There seems to be a subtle difference between a domain account that has the checkbox "force password change" and an account that merely has an expired password (say after 90 days).
Is there a way to ...
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SSRS 2005 - What permissions are needed for the Unattended Execution Account?
I have created some SSRS 2005 reports within our SQL Server 2005 box. I needed to create an Unattended Execution Account for displaying external images on the reports. Currently, the account has Local ...
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How do large organizations with large turnover and many systems perform account provisioning?
Our current solution
At the moment, it is essentially a bunch of scripts which are executed by an in-house developed console menu that is Perl-based. Each script is associated to a step in the ...
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Java service can't list files in directories
I posted this question in Stack Overflow, and someone redirected me here:
Hello everyone. I'm doing a Windows Service in Java, this service list the files in a directory and write the results in a ...
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Where's my tab completion and up-arrow behavior? (Ubuntu 10.04)
I'm new to Linux, trying Ubuntu 10.04, preconfigured by host.
When I log in (SSH) using the preconfigured account, the shell prompt is: user@hostname:~$
The up arrow scrolls through the list of ...
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How to reduce our AD account creation and maintenance requests and work load
Where I work, almost 40% of our support requests are for account management tasks :
Create new account and assign in groups
Unlock an account
Reset a password
Change an account's groups following a ...
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How to disable an LDAP account?
The LDAP uses the posixAccount schema and related attributes and I wonder if there's a standardized way to disable an account. Re-enabling the account should obviously re-enable the former password.
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Google Postini Support
I've just ordered Postini for a friend's business and like an idiot I have added the secondary email address with the wrong extention .co.uk rather than .com. I have got the credentials through for ...
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windows 2003 Domain. Strange case domain admin account blocked can't be unblocked
I'm having this situation:
I have domain admin privileges on my user account
There are some domain users with unlocktime password permissions (applied by delegation over the domain) for unlock ...
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Orphaned Accounts on Windows Server 2003
When editing the NTFS permissions for some folders on my Windows 2003 Server w/ SP2, I see many accounts like
Account unknown(s-1-5-21-545330648-264140627-1714.....)
This server isn't a member ...
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Why use a dedicated SharePoint setup account?
What are the main reasons for installing WSS 3.0 and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 using a dedicated setup account rather than local admin or a non-shared domain account? What are the ...
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FTP access for >1 user with same account?
I'm creating an iPhone app which is basically a breakout game, but you can create your own levels and upload/download stuff! It's working well... sort of.
My game uses a single account for whoever ...
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Run a script after I unlock my Windows session?
How do I run a script each time I unlock my Windows 7 session?
So, if I lock my session and then log in again, I want the script to run.
Do login scripts configured in the Group Policy do this or ...
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windows service access network resources as well as local usb drives
The Windows Service application I deploy on Windows Server 2003 needs to access network resources as well as the usb tokens I plug in. When I use local system account I can access the usb but not the ...
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Best Practices for “temporary” accounts in a Windows server environment?
Are there any best practices for "temporary worker" accounts in a Windows server environment?
We have a couple of contractors joining the organization temporarily. They only need access to a few ...
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Account sharing among Ubuntu machines
I'd like a simple and secure system to have allow users in our network to have their account (e.g., 'myname') work on every machine in the network (e.g., such that they could ssh to any machine and ...
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How to set user account Name/Surname in postfix?
I created a user account in postfix in the form: editor@example.org.
When I receive emails from that account, in gmail, for example, the senders name is "editor", but I want to show something like ...
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Write-but-not-delete permissions on SAMBA
I installed samba on my linux server for public file sharing on the LAN. I works great currently, but I would like to add some security:
People from LAN should be able to Read files present and Add ...
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Account lock after a single authentication failure
I have 2 standalone servers (not in any domain/AD) - Windows 2003 and Windows 2008.
When connecting to shares on them, using the UNC path from Windows 2000 pro, or Samba (under linux), if I make a ...
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Users can't send mail through smtp
I have my own mailserver, it used to be hosted by Hostgator but now I have a VPS.
From my home location I can send and receive mails as much as I want. It even works on my phone.
My other users also ...
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Computer account (SYSTEM) across the network
I have an interesting problem... I need the local SYSTEM account on one server to access a specific network share on another server. Due to other reasons I can't use a regular domain account for the ...
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Monitoring User Account Time
Is there a good way (on networked *nix systems) to keep track of how much time user accounts have been logged in on a daily/weekly/monthly basis?
Also, it would be cool if I could set adjustable time ...
