Questions tagged [user-accounts]
A user account is an access authorization to a restricted IT system. It consists mostly of a system wide unique user name an a password which are needed for authentication. IT systems use the user account to identify the individual user and grant him permissions which are associated with the user account.
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Join reputation when joining accounts
Would it be possible, when automatically joining my account among Stack projects, to share reputation as well?
Now I have 5 accounts and 5 different reputations - it is frustrating.
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User accounts getting locked out for unknown reason after enabling Fine Grained Password Policy (FGPP)
For my organization of around 6000 users, I just did three things.
Set "Default Domain Policy" password requirements to "not defined"
Set a Fine Grained Password Policy for your basic 8 characters w/ ...
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Can I change the Logon type of a windows service through GPO
We are using a custom windows service which does some task and runs as Local System account. For technical reasons in our project, we want to change the logon type of our windows service to a domain ...
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Remove Access of object or user from directory using PS
We have several servers in the same domain and the requirement is to remove permission from a specific folder which is defined in the power-shell script and I need to specify the name of the object ...
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Run Apache Tomcat as user "tomcat"
I want to run Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu 18 as the (by me created) user tomcat.
I am not using the Ubuntu default Tomcat but instead directly downloaded the tar.gz package from the Tomcat homepage.
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Active Directory: Changing a name
I have a user with a typo'd name. For the sake of explanation, I'll say the username is lusername, first name Lindsay. Active Directory had the user initially named Lindsey Username, and I need it to ...
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Recover root access after wrong usermod -g in Ubuntu 14
I have to recover root access to an Ubuntu 14 box where there is only a single local user and usermod -g somegroup ... has been executed instead of usermod -G ... so the user can't sudo anymore.
I am ...
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Struggling to configure sendmail right with email on same domain
I have a situation that probably unusual.
I run a handful of services I find useful at my domain example.com. example.com is pointed to my VPS server via A record and it's associated services work ...
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Find application causing account lockout on windows server 2012 R2
One of my account is being locked out from a windows server, it was tracked down using the Security Audit which produced event ID 4740. Its a Windows server 2012 R2 running only WSUS service. I think ...
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How do I modify, disable, or delete a task with stored credentials after a Server Name Change?
I have a task that's been running regularly every 30 minutes for several months. It's got stored credentials for my account, listed as MACHINE_NAME\USER. After the creation of this task, we decided to ...
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Is it possible to disable new bluetooth connections for non-admin accounts(Windows 10)?
I can disable bluetooth entirely, but I want the previously attached bluetooth keyboard & mouse to continue working, but the guest/non-admin users unable to pair new devices. I looked at stopping ...
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Ansible user module fails when group parameter matches name parameter (e.g. creating user & group name)
Trying to create an Ansible playbook to create a user (user module) on RH/Cent system (e.g. useradd).
The playbook fails anytime I include the group parameter despite setting the group value to ...
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i can rdp windows server 2016 dc but i can't access server manager or users and computers of active directory
i am a beginer in windows server administration, i am curently working on lab about active directory, so i set up a windows server 2016 DC in whitch i created two OU, in those OUs i created a multiple ...
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Keyboard not working in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V, running inside Oracle VirtualBox
I am considering to migrate my server to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V. Currently I use Windows 10 with Oracle VirtualBox as HyperVisor. In order to test out Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V, I decided to ...
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Limiting time spent per day on a Windows client machine
I know, through the use of the Logon Hours feature that you can control when a user can login in Windows. I also know that there's a way that you log them off when they hit those limits.
What I'm ...
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What happens if you have user collisions between a Linux system and an LDAP server?
I have an (Open)LDAP Server running on a Debian system inside my LAN, and multiple systems running Linux Mint, configured as LDAP Clients.
Here is the content of my /etc/nsswitch.conf:
passwd: ...
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Using powershell can a non-admin user, change password of a user of remote machine which has windows operating system if existing password is known?
I have 2 machines. From machine A i log in as a user without admin privileges. I need to change the password of another user say BUser who is administrator in machine B by providing the existing old ...
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enable built-in adminstrator account on SBS2011
In an attempt to uninstall Exchange 2010 I removed some mailboxes (before I would then remove the DB's), but in doing so, it looks like I've removed the AD administration account - named sbsadmin.
It ...
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Ubuntu 18 inserting leading space to username
We have an Ubuntu 18.04 client authenticating against a Samba 4 Active Directory.
On this client (and this client only) when a specific user (and this user only) logs in via ssh, tty, or the GUI (at ...
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Ubuntu server grant existing user access to a new server
I'm new to Linux/Ubuntu world. I am looking for different methods to be able to migrate/copy Ubuntu users from one server to another. From what I read about this it seems that LDAP will help with this,...
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Windows 2008 R2: Admin user logs out but then when trying to log back in, same admin user name appears with prompt for password
For one of our Windows 2008 R2 servers, a very peculiar issue has appeared.
Using an admin account, I'm able to successfully log out. Then when going back to the server to log in, I'm prompted to ...
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What does the Windows 7 local group Power Users actually do?
A client wants a new bit of software. Typically they are on the cusp of signing a contract before they happen to mention it to IT in passing.
A skim through the technical requirements show nothing ...
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Updating user files on no login account on Linux, without using root?
I am working with a Linux embedded system. It has a special account that is used to run software compiled by the manufacturer's programming environment. This account purposefully has the login ...
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Login to local user account doesn't work after joining Windows 10 machine to Active Directory Domain
The title basically says it all. I also tried adding the local user account to the Power Users Group as referenced in this post here:
Unable to login with Local account (user) after joining onto ...
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Is it good practice to name an admin account 'admin' or 'administrator'?
I have seen on numerous occasions that organisations name their admin account anything but admin or administrator. Most often of course people in help desk would use their own account with different ...
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Creating users in a Windows 2016 VM server which is integrated Azure Active Directory
Scenario/Problem: We need to facilitate access (user access) to an Windows 2016 VM server for couple of our colleagues in our organization.
My understanding is that we do not need to create users ...
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Connect to network share using local account - without a computer name
The short form of the question:
I have a shared folder on a computer with a fixed static IP address, a known share name, and a local user account which has read access to the share.
Normally, I would ...
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VPN user account looked again and again
i have issue in my Active Directory involvement there is issue with VPN user
user use network drive for document sharing in my Org
i reset user password many time but account looked after 5-15 ...
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User keeps getting locked out
An AD user continuously keeps getting locked out for no reason. There are no persistent drive mappings and the user is not logging in anywhere else. In Windows event viewer there are constant logs of ...
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Problem with Firefox and DropMyRights
Trying to set up Firefox to run as limited user in admin account using DropMyRights (Firefox 3, Windows XP Pro, SP3). I had it working fine for a while, then it starting failing. Firefox process ...
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Can I add a Microsoft Account to my Windows Server Core? (WITHOUT domain nor domain controller) [closed]
Can I use Microsoft accounts in my Windows Server Core virtual machines as we can do with Windows 10 without domain controller role or additional magic?
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Windows Domain accounts gets locked without any failed logon events
I have a domain account which keeps getting locked without any prior wrong password login attempts:
I.e (completely stripped off the details, just to give you an idea)
10:15:49 - logon successful
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How to change UID,GID of user accounts while migrating from one server to another Centos 7 server
I have a mail server running with 1000 users. I want to migrate the server to Centos 7 server.
Scenario 1 (Old server): user accounts UID start with 501
Scenario 2 (New Centos 7 Server) : user ...
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Users in Administrators group cannot perform admin tasks with PowerShell remoting only administrator can
I am working on Windows Server 2016 (workgroup) and enabled powershell remoting on it.
Only the default administrator account can perform tasks that require administrative permission such as
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Can't view list of sites in IIS
One of our team members can't see the list of web sites in IIS on one of our servers. When he loads IIS he just sees an empty Start Page node. If he right-clicks on the Start Page node, and then on "...
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create user without password in ubuntu with su access?
I am trying to create a user with su access on centos.
I followed the instructions from this post. but NOTHING worked.
I want to login using su test_user
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sudo adduser test_user
(No prompt to ...
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ad lds to create built in administrator account
I created an Administrator account using AD LDS but cannot log in with it. I used ADSI tool to create the user:
CN=LDSAdmin,CN=Admin,O=MyCompany,C=CH
and then added it to the built in group
CN=...
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Delay Windows login screen waiting for some service statup
I want to wait for wifi connection before let user login to their laptop.
Can I be sure that the login screen is shown only after some service startup?
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Is a windows user really needed for IIS client certificate authorization, if so how to set this user's privileges?
I had originally posted this question in securitystackexchange, but I didn't get the answer I was expecting, and I see the topic can also fit here.
I need to connect two servers in different ...
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How to delete all information belonging to an ejabberd vhost?
Deactivating an ejabberd vhost is easy. In the simplest case, just remove the entry from the hosts section in /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.yml.
I presume this does not delete any information about the ...
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User principal name vs SAM account name
I am confused between the user principal name (UPN) and SAM account name (SAM). Heres what i know
SAM-
Pre-windows name, for backward compatibility with Windows NT machines etc.
DOMAIN/USERA, looks ...
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Semi-selfservice user registration [closed]
I don't want to have wide-open registration on my server so I don't have to deal with spam accounts, but at the same time I don't want to have to manually add accounts for each person I invite to my ...
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How to create linux account with useradd without creating mail spool
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Can I create a new user without creating mail spool and without modification of /etc/default/useradd ?
Explaination
I want to create a user that has a home directory and skeletion, but I ...
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Amend not replace Active Directory Account information with powershell
We are changing our phone system and as a result we need to update users telephone numbers on their active directory profile.
Currently each person has just the extension in the telephone field in ...
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UID/username lookup on IBM z/os USS
How can I associate a UID to a specific username on IBM z/OS Unix System Services?
Within USS, I see content created in my user space which I do not own. File ownership lists a three digit ...
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Samba user login
some help needed.
I have/manage a samba share at work. It works fine for everyone except one user. I've tried all I can think now, so now I hope for some new input.
$smbclient --list LOCALHOST
as ...
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Local user accounts have disappeared after installing Active Directory and running dcpromo
I'm kinda newbie in this Windows 2008 Server R2 configuration stuff, so I would appreciate any help regards the issue I'm facing.
After a Windows 2008 Server R2 clean install I created a couple of ...
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How do I set up multiple unique accounts via command line?
I have to setup and configure about 60 (+ more in the future) windows 7 embedded PC's with the same settings. Each of these PC's will have 12 accounts on them. Each of the accounts will have their own ...
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Administrator account keeps getting locked out. Can't trace source
The Administrator account keeps getting locked out. The Event logs and Netlogon logs confirm that the account is getting locked out, but the source computer name isn't provided (it is blank). See ...
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LDAP user has no name
A user on our Opensuse 12.1 server was trying to mount an NFS directory and came to me saying that he had no username. His user configuration is identical to every other user on the system, so I ...
