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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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 solution....
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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 [closed]

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 http://learn.iis.net/...
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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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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. ...
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How to get an text list of login names for a user group of a windows server

I must copy all login names of a specific user group of a windows server to a 3rd party system. To make it easy I need an text list of the login names. I don't like to copy the login names from the ...
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Active Directory New User Workflow

I work in a small organization that uses a single file & print server with an Active Directory domain for user management. The office admin who inducts new people is non-technical and generally ...
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How can I rename a shortname in OpenLDAP on OS X Server 10.6 (Invalid DN syntax (34))

The company I work for is running OS X Server 10.6. All of the users were created with a first.last username syntax. This is causing problems and so we are trying to change the usernames to ...
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My useraccount gets permanently locked by someone

My admin-account in our Datacenter get's permanently locked and I have to unlock it again and again with our general Datacenter-Administrator. I want it to stop, but I don't know who locks my account ...
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Remove saved folder access info?

Yesterday we had a user who was having problems accessing a certain shared folder on our network. When attempting to access the folder, I got the usual "Please enter your credentials here" dialog. ...
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Adding FreeBSD user upon first login

Is it possible, to achieve the proposed behavior on my FreeBSD 8.2 server: New user ssh's into my server. He supplies as 'Login:' his student index number and a new, locked account is created with ...
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How do I create a guest ftp user and give access to specific sub-folder with SSH?

I just got a virtual dedicated server at GoDaddy. I got the Simple Control Panel. There doesn't seem to be a way to create a guest ftp user through this control panel and I was told it must be created ...
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Purging AD Principal from cache

A user in the Active Directory has had a change of his SAM account name, but a web application running IIS still recognizes him under his old SAM Account name. I presume this is because the AD ...
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Log into Windows/Mac OS X authorised against users on a Linux server

We have a Linux server, and about 10 Mac OS X (10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard) workstations and 5 Windows (mostly 7, some XP) workstations and are looking at expanding. Is it possible to log into ...
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How can I make a user and give read only access?

I need to give SSH read only access to a certain directory so they can look at my PHP code. The directory is /var/www/html/websitenamehere/ How can I make a user and let them login via SSH to see ...
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How do I create a new user on AWS?

I want to give developers individual access to AWS Management Console, and have their own security keys for AWS command line tools. Is it possible for me to do this using the command line tools? And ...
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creating users on TFS 2010

I want to create a user for my local TFS server. The server is installed on a Win7 64 bit system. Is it possible to create a user which logins using the TFS' authentication? To be clearer, Can I ...
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Startup Script + Local System user = no functional program UI

I currently have a group policy startup script (CMD file). It runs during startup, as expected, but there is no UI for the program the script invokes. For example purposes, let's say I have this ...
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How to generate a /etc/shadow compatible password for Ubuntu 10.04?

How are passwords generated that are used by Ubuntu 10.04? I know that they use SHA 512 as hashing algorithm, but I figure that there is some sort of salting done. I need to generate such a password ...
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Added a new user to group www-data and to sudoers, still not sure why user creates new directories as root

I'm new to Linux systems administration (dealing with users and groups) but I do have a lot of command line experience as a developer. Right now, i'm trying to make sure that three users I've added ...
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What does pwdadm -c effect?

If you were to run pwdadm -c against a user account and it clears the flags from /etc/passwd; what would those cleared flags stop from happening?
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Migrating mysql 'users' to new machine gives off errors

I have looked at the settings a great number of times but run into the same issue. When connected to my Linux box with the 'exact' same settings, no fault. When run on a fresh machine with xampp for ...
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How do I regain access to root after accidental chsh command that went bad?

I did a silly silly thing. While attempting to change the shell for user 'x' I was in a rush and did not type the users name at the end of the command, so I ended up running this: chsh /sbin/nologin ...
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Combined NFS, Samba server w users from Active Directory

I want to build a server that exports user home directories over SMB/CIFS and NFS. This server would be joined to a Win2k3 AD domain controller that holds our user database. As I understand it, ...
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Unable to get the SSH access for a new user

I created a new user on ubuntu 10 username: codeuser There is an existing user called "admin". Now, my problem is that I cannot directly connect to the server using the codeuser credentials. But, I ...
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SSH Fails, /bin/bash: No such file or directory

I have a user who is jailed. sshd_config: Subsystem sftp internal-sftp Match user matt ChrootDirectory %h X11Forwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no passwd: matt:x:1001:5006:Matt Ryan,,...
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How to configure nginx+php (fcgi) to run every subdomain with a different user?

Im pretty new to nginx and - more for learning purpose - im trying to configure Nginx in order to run php with a different user for every subdomains. For example, i would like to use user john for ...
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Do I have reinstall client apps when domain changed?

Admin we hired gave a wrong domain name (windows network) and going to change it in a few days. He told us he will have to create users list from the scratch. Do users will have to reinstall client ...
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What happens to my SQL Server logins if I change a windows domain username

My question is very similar to this question Changing Windows Domain UserName but the original question doesn't explicitly answer my slight variation. If I change a windows users username (if they ...
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