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how many user accounts can a unix-like OS host?
Let's say I want to have a server with as many user accounts as possible. How many is the max?
I want millions of user accounts. Is that crazy? I'd host dozens of load-balance mirrors of the box, ...
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What are my options for centralizing Unix user management
We have 15 Debian servers and growing.
What's a simple, lightweight method for centralizing user management? Use cases would be adding a user across all servers, tweaking a users access on a specific ...
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How to create dummy user?
I want to create user with least privileges. Without home, without rights, without shell. How to do that?
When I call useradd it creates user with home
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Sync user accounts over multiple linux servers
What is the best way to sync multiple user accounts and home directories over multiple servers, they will all be the same OS. The servers are in different locations around the world, so if one goes ...
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ZFS: can per-user encrypted filesystems be deduplicated on block-level?
Let's assume I build a storage system where each user gets his/her own encrypted filesystem on top of a ZFS pool. Would deduplication on pool-level still work when each fs is encrypted?
What ...
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How do I give users reboot rights on fedora?
On a fedora server, an web application which is in development stages, get stoked for unknown reasons for the moment. The only solution is to restart the linux machine, but only the root has acces to ...
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How to change user for more rights on a SFTP client?
It is always suggested on first step to disable the remote root login for the SSH protocol.
I have a low-right user able to connect via SSH and once connected, I simply su in order to gain more ...
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choosing Red Hat Directory Server vs FreeIPA vs Other
I'm setting up a new, small network. About 10 servers at 3 sites with just 3 users total. All are running RHEL 6.1. I was hoping to have centralized user management, especially having a single ...
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How do I log every command executed by a user?
I want to monitor all user's activity in my server.
Even when the user executes a shell command from some editor like vim I want to
see them in the log file.
I have checked the tool acct but it is ...
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How do I re-enable an sudo lecture, once it's been seen
I have sudo set to show the usual lecture on its first use by a user. Without thinking, I accidentally triggered its display for a new user as I was setting them up, and now it's been shown, they ...
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Using active directory as a master staff database and allowing specific users edit capability
We have a challenge in our enterprise, where we have at least a few different storage locations for employee information. We are trying to get this all consolidated as much as possible so there is ...
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Recommendations on managing dot files for users using Puppet
Goal is to have a collection of dot files (.bashrc, .vimrc, etc.) in a central location. Once it's there, Puppet should push out the files to all managed servers.
I initially was thinking of giving ...
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Any repercussions from not using default primary groups for Linux users?
We were thinking of not using the default primary group for our RHEL users. What I mean by default:
User: melbin
Primary group: melbin
We will instead do something like:
User: melbin
Primary ...
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Delete specific PHP sessions
I'm using PHP sessions as the focus for a user system on a website. As an admin of the site I would like to delete specific sessions to force users to logout. Or at least delete all the sessions so ...
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How can I set up a single user that can edit multiple sites' files with correct default permissions?
How can I achieve this setup:
There is a primary user that I use to ssh into the server and edit all files for multiple sites.
The various sites are stored in the /srv/www directory, so ...
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Creating a windows account only for share access
I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 in a workgroup, not a domain, and I want to create a local account that is only used for allowing other computers in the same workgroup to access file shares on that ...
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Use Puppet to deploy files to all user's home directory
I want to deploy a simple text file (a git commit message template) to each user's home directory using Puppet.
I came across this post which seems very close, but the part I'm not clear on is how do ...
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What are the minimum permissions to grant an Exchange 2007 admin to perform specific mailbox management tasks?
I would like to allow someone else to administer user accounts and mailboxes (add users, reset passwords, disable accounts) on an Exchange 2007 server.
Obviously, they should not be able to disable ...
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Create a Bulk user creation script on Windows Server 2008
The script below (create_user_list.bat) loops and creates 30 users. It works well on Windows Server2003 but is breaking on Server 2008. The error that is received is 'System error 5 has occured. ...
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Best user group for developer domain users
What is the best user group for Visual Studio 2010 developers? Now we have added them as Member of Domain Users but under certain situations they need admin account.
We would like to give them more ...
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I'm not able to add passwordless entry to a new user on EC2
I'm trying to add a deploy user to a EC2 instance to work with capistrano. I've been able to add passwordless entry for user ubuntu, but it's not working with "deploy". I'm setting up this user as ...
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Windows users and groups management software
I need software to manage a large number of groups for a FTP server. Ideally this software should also allow managing the associated NTFS rights for the folders on FTP (if they still match the ...
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Linux User and Permission Management within an AD Environment
Issue: Centralized user management and user permission mangement of user access needs for resources (access to services, home directories, joining to local user groups, file system permissions, etc.) ...
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Disable temporary user profile on workstations in a Windows 2008 env
I have a Windows 2008 domain with +/- 27 workstations. The users have all roaming profiles, but this doesn't work sometimes. What results in that the user is logging in with a temp user profile ...
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Windows Server 2008 extremely limited user
I have a couple AWS windows 2008 instances that are about to go into production but I need them to be load tested first. We found an overseas group to do the load testing but they want to be able to ...
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PowerShell and Active Directory User Management
Issue: Take a list of usernames from a CSV file and recursively remove them from all of the user groups that they are a member of. I would like to limit what groups they are removed from based upon ...
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Where to store application that I develop?
I'm developing a server application for ubuntu server, clients will connect to in through socket connection. It's in beta stage and under heavy development. At the moment lots of people are using it ...
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Email hoarder intervention and education - (Exchange environment)
Throughout my career, I've encountered quite a few users who were email hoarders...
I'm managing a 100-user environment where users previously had 100mb quotas and a basic Cyrus IMAP/Postfix ...
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Is a user automatically part of a group of the same name?
Consider this situation.
A user called _example is created without assigning him to any group.
A new group is manually added to /etc/group called _example without any users.
Is the _example user ...
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Whould changing the administrator username effect the other setting on my windows server 2008 R2?
I would like to change the default administrator username on my Windows Server 2008 R2 but not sure whether it would effect my environment badly or not. I am also connecting to my server with this ...
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New administration user's $PATH seriously differs from the root's
I'm administering a rented CentOS 5.6 Dedicated Machine as root like initially setup but I'm aware it's extremely bad practise, so I created an User named administrator, placed into groups ...
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Roaming Profiles: Simultaneous Logins of Same User
I am administering a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment that is using roaming profiles and folder redirection. The client machines are running Windows 7. Due to the nature of the business, users ...
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Creating users in cpanel
We have recently purchased VPS server hosting and manage it through a WHM cpanel interface. There are many users who need to access this and all of them currently use it through the root login. ...
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Managing a small group of workstations that are not connected to any servers
I have a network of 5 workstations, 1 laser printer and 1 photocopier. Each of them connected to a WiFi router to get out to the internet or use the printers and copier. They belong to a small charity ...
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Can I create a hidden admin account via the terminal on OSX?
I have around 300 baby macs to look after, and they have lots of different admin accounts, which is a nightmare to work with.
ARD has slowly been configured with the accounts of the machine owners, ...
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How to restrict members of a certain group to one login per user?
I have an ssh server. Some of my users login several times simultaneously; some of those who are doing that should not be, and I suspect account sharing. The ones who shouldn't are all members of a ...
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What is the difference between Features in Server level and site level in IIS7.5
I am having trouble connecting with IIS_manager created users to my default FTP site.
I followed the guide at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/321/configure-ftp-with-iis-7-manager-authentication/ (as ...
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Trouble creating FTP in Server 2008
I have been trying to create an FTP server on my new Server 2008.
I have been following both (very detailed and highly published here guides)
For setting up using IIS Manager
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Creating user groups and assigning users in Windows Server 2008
I'm setting up an FTP server on a Windows Server 2008 r2 system. Rather than deal with setting filesystem permissions for users manually, I would like to simply grant a single group read/write access ...
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Is there a way to force a Password policy to local OSX users?
i have to manage a couple of MAC's with local accounts.
Now i know pwpolicy to set local passwordpolicys, but i can't find a way to force a password history. I tried to use the "usingHistory=5" ...
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How to change local user home folder on Windows 2000 and above
I was using a local account on a Windows 7 desktop that is not connected to any Active Directory.
After a while it was required to rename the local account.
Renaming the account was simple using ...
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Managing Active Directory Group Membership with a Non-Administrator Account In Server 2008
I am running Server 2008 R2 in an Active Directory Domain Environment.
I have created a group in Active Directory and I have delegated management authority to that group to a user.
I want this user ...
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linux useradd limited
How do I make a user account using useradd and give the user access to only the dir where he can just read write files. The user when login goes to this base dir I provide and cannot access anything ...
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How do you manage two users with the same name in AD?
I have two users on the network.
One is John Smith. The other John Smith Jr.
How do you as a sys admin set these two users up so they do not conflict in AD(active directory) and or FileMaker?
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Add users to a server folder
I use Windows Server 2003 R2. I am logged in as user Administrator.
I want to give myself permission to add a user for a certain folder. I granted myself all possible permissions for the parent folder ...
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Possible options for knowing user's identity without using a user account
I am managing a network in a condominium. Right now, I am looking for a method for logging the users' activities without using a user login system. We have this login system not long ago, but people ...
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Linux Server user copy
Is there a way to copy user list (with data and passwords) from one server to another.
We have two servers and one of those is new. I need to create same users (that exist in /home/) and set same ...
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Catch-all ACL attributes via CLI for Mac OS X?
It's nice and all that one can "go crazy" adding and subtracting ACL's from files/folders till the cows come home... but when doing it from the command line, say for example..
$ chmod +a# 1 "admin ...
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OpenSSH SFTP with Chroot, how to change password
I have setup up ssh with chrooted directory where users only can use sftp and access a directory and all is child folders.
The only problem I have is that I need to let the users change their ...
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SQL Server: best account for dbo user?
What is the best account for dbo user? I mean that if I use personal AD account for database owner, and if this account is removed from AD (e.g if I leave my job), these databases are not accessible. ...
