Questions tagged [user-management]

Practices and procedures aimed at performing bulk and/or fine-grained operations on user accounts, permissions, allocated resources.

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FTP Error 530, User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible

I've been tasked with setting up an FTP directory for a client of ours. I'm working from a Windows 2008 Server with IIS 7 installed. To create the FTP user directory I've followed this eHow tutorial. ...
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How can I resolve this one application coming up with an "You don't have permission to use the application" error?

I've got a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server Open Directory Master with a user who's getting Mobility & Application managed preferences from a group (the only group they're a member of). The ...
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In simple terms the difference between a Group and a Role in OTRS Ticket system?

I'm new to this whole OTRS/Help ticket system notion. Be grateful if anybody could provide a simple example that differentiates between a User in a Group and a User associated with a Role in OTRS. ...
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Should I use Organisational Units or Groups in Server 2008?

At the company I am doing work for at the moment I am setting up a new server. It's going to be running Microsoft Server 2008 and be used as a domain controller with the DNS pointing to OpenDNS for ...
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Adding security to privoxy

I have this little proxy that i run with privoxy on my server, basically to take advantage of my server's static IP to connect to my office's VPN. I'm using it on a, let's say, uncommon port without ...
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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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windows 2003 - Can a server operator install windows update packages?

If not, do you know witch permissions have to been granted for that? thanks!
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Samba users not added untill they logon first? Edit: How do I add users to tdbsam without a password prompt?

I add users to my server with the command useradd -m -p PASS_HASH -s /usr/sbin/nologin USERNAME Then I try to access their samba home share, but it never shows up until I login with the user: root:~$...
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Add daemon account on OS X

I'm trying to manually install a daemon (Oracle Grid Engine) on my machine, and I would like it to run under an isolated account. What is the preferred way, using Directory Services, to add a "system" ...
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Setting up a user on ubuntu (for ftp purposes)

So is setting up an ftp user really just setting up a user in ubuntu? I saw something about setting up a user without a home directory. What other things are important? I'd like to give the user the ...
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Remove a Linux user with only his UID

I would like to remove (or rename) an Ubuntu user I created but the usual solutions don't work as there is a question mark in the username. $ sudo usermod -l myuser my?user usermod: user 'my?user' ...
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Windows XP User Permissions - local machine

I want to have 2 types of accounts on my machine: admin (easy) and a user account. What permissions should the user account have and how should I set them? Permissions should include everything ...
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Users cleaning in debian

I'm running a webserver at slicehost and decided to delete unused/unnecessary users. But I really don't know which ones are necessary for the system to work I use it as apache webserver with mysql, ...
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Delete windows profiles with similar names using a batch file or script

I’m on a Windows 2008 server and would like to delete 15 users (user1 till user15) without having to do this by hand. After deleting them completely I’d like to readd them (again, with a script) and ...
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RunAs under domain account from non-AD Windows [closed]

Why does this answer tell me it is impossible, and this one states the opposite? Update1: http://msgoodies.blogspot.com/2006/04/runas-without-domain-trusts.html
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Users changing their name

When users need a username changed, is there a set of places to have to check that the bases are covered? I know that AD uses a SID to actually identify users, but in this example we have a user that ...
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Create SSH user with limited privileges to only use Git repository

I have a git repository hosted on my SunOS server, that I remotely use through ssh git clone ssh://[email protected]/path/to/git Now I need to add more users to be able to access that repository, ...
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Know my novell server version and adding a user

how do i know the version of novell on my server when it has already been installed? How do i add a user to the novell user? is there a graphical user interface to manage novell services?
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Windows server 2003 R2 problem with resetting user password

I am trying to help a friend and with the limited knowledge I have about the server setup ,here are the 2 problems Resetting a user password does not work New user created cannot logon to the domain ...
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Active Directory - Bulk Company Update

I was wondering if there is a way to update the 'Company' field for a large group of users within Active Directory? I would like to match all users with a company ending in a certain string. It would ...
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What is the minimum architecture required for per-user history logging and password protection on a small network?

I'd like to set up and administer a small network which would supply a captive portal where users type in a unique password and/or username to connect to the internet and to each others' computers, ...
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Windows 2003 Permissions Problem

I am trying to setup a new user on a Standalone (non-domain) Windows Server 2003 SP2. The user needs FTP access to 1 folder in our web site's directory structure. Here's exactly what I have done so ...
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Temporary changes to /etc/passwd or /etc/group - how-to

I want to temporarily modify /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group to "remove" a user/group without deleting the line. Is there a way to do that? http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?...
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How to get the name of the windows default user group

We want to change file permissions for the windows default user group. The problem is, depending on windows version (xp,win 7) and language, the name of this default user group differs. Sometimes ...
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Fedora NAS software raid?

Hey guys, we got a new linux server for the office, and my boss decided I would install the software, but I have no clue what software to use. I am looking for network drive support for window boxes (...
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Is there a good graphical/pseudographical/web-based tool for managing Linux users and groups?

Is there a good graphical/pseudographical/web-based tool for managing Linux users and groups? To see them all at once, operate them (create, remove, associate (add/remove users to groups), modify) ...
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How to create an alias for a user name on Linux?

For example, hot to set-up the system for john.smith and jsmith to be synonyms? UPDATE: the reason is than I want a user to be registered in the system as jsmith and to have [email protected] ...
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Storing users in Active Directory in hierarchical manner

Is it possible to define all users in Active Directory so they are also hierarchically related between each other? In other words: Is it possible to define managers from top of my firm and all the ...
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bulk swap uidNumber/gidNumber?

We currently have LDAP servers in Dev env. and staging/prod env. Both are not coupled and accounts are created manually. So the uids are same but the uidNumber and gidNumber are different across these ...
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Windows Workgroup to Domain Migration

We have a Windows network running in Workgroup mode with no server. There are around 14 machines on the network so it's clearly time we moved to a SBS 2008 server in domain mode. My question ...
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Migrating Identity Providers - specifying a new users password hash

We'd like to switch Identity Provider (and Web Access Manager), and also the user directory we use, but would like to do so without users needing to change their password. We currently have the SSHA ...
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How to train users converting from PC to Mac/Apple at a small non profit?

Background: I am part of a team that provides volunteer tech support to a local non profit. We are in the position to obtain a grant to update almost all of our computers (many of them 5 to 7 year ...
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Linux Permissions

I am running Fedora 12 and I've setup a partition separate from my root partition to keep shared files and home directories. Now, I've been having permission issues where it says the user cannot ...
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SQL Server 2005 Accidentally removed a user from public role, can't add user back into role

I'm trying to crearte a DB user account that only has access to a specific database, and can't read or change other databases, and can't alter credentials for any other accounts. I accidentally ...
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Mac OS X Server add server user

What's the recommended way to add a user to Mac OS X Server that doesn't need all the hoopla associated with Workgroup Manager? There are many users pre-configured in Mac OS X Server (www, root, ...
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How to setup a user account for a web application

What are the main guidelines to setting up a user account on a Linux machine for a web app? In my case it is a Rails application that does file management. First thing I can think of is to limit ...
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How do I add a domain user to a group on a non-domain server?

If we are running a server that is not attached to the domain, how would I go about adding a domain user to a local group on that server?
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Active Directory Username Formats [closed]

I'm working on an open source project that will manage active directory users. I am looking for feedback from Windows/Active Directory Admins on the formats of usernames they prefer or their ...
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git networking for small team

I'm trying to set up git for my programming team. My setup is: 1. example.com (Ubuntu server) IP: 192.168.1.2 (public: xxx.yyy.yyy.zzz) main git repository in /var/www/testgit user: mot (root) 2. ...
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Minimum permissions needed to create a user Home Folder in Windows Active Directory

We would like the Help Desk to have the responsibility of creating User Home folders instead of our 2nd level support. The help desk global group is already an Account Operator, so in Active Directory ...
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Limit unix users file access

I just created a new user on my server, but I only want this user to have access to var/www/ and all the files/folders inside that. They should be able to access no other files on the server except ...
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User for MSSQL 2008 Service Accounts

I want to create a Domain User that runs the SQL Service Accounts. The reason for this is that I have setup mirroring and MS recommends having the same user (a domain user account) running the ...
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Sun Grid Engine: Automatically Terminating Idle Interactive Jobs

We're considering using Sun Grid Engine on a small compute cluster. Right now, the current set up is pretty crude and just involves having people ssh to an open machine to run their jobs. We'd like ...
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Limited SFTP access under Debian

under debian, I want to create a user who can only access to a specific folder (ie /home/user/some/folder/ (this folder already exists) , can do anything that he wants like modify, create delete a ...
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Linux: Managing users, groups and applications

I am fairly new to linux admin so this may sound quite a noob question. I have a VPS account with a root access. I need to install Tomcat and Java on it and later other open source applications as ...
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Single-Purpose SSH account, exclusively for Reverse Port Forwarding

On my Debian system, I'd like to create a user that is only allowed to do a Reverse Port Forward from their machine to my server, but I'm not sure how to create a limited user specifically for this ...
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PHP scripts owned by www-data

I use to have owned php scripts on a dedicated server by user "webroot". It would be easier for coding and administration if the scripts were owned by the apache2 user, "www-data" on my system. Also ...
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How do I set permissions structure for multiple users editing multiple sites in /var/www on Ubuntu 9.10?

I'm setting up an Ubuntu server that will have 3 or 4 VirtualHosts that I want users to be able to work in (add new files, edit old files, etc.). I currently plan on storing the sites in /var/www but ...
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Are these MySQL user settings vulnerable?

I'm using PHPMyAdmin to manage the databases and I'm new to SQL in general. Am I suppose to keep an open anonymous user on localhost so things like Drupal can access MySQL? It seems like having a non-...
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How come some linux users don't have home directories?

In linux I only see a /home/[[me]] directory. However, I know there are at least 20+ other users (root, www-data, etc..). How come some users don't have user directories - and is it possible to ...
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