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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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Copy NT user accounts between servers
I've created about 50 user accounts on a Windows 2003 Server, and I'd like to copy those accounts to a new server, is this possible? I'm not using Active Directory.
Patrick
Edit 1 : Thanks for the ...
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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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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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How do I create user accounts from the Terminal in Mac OS X 10.5?
I would like to be able to create new users in Mac OS X 10.5 remotely after ssh'ing into the machine. How do I do this?
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Best way to find the computer a user last logged on from?
I am hoping that somewhere in Active Directory the "last logged on from [computer]" is written/stored, or there is a log I can parse out?
The purpose of wanting to know the last PC logged on from is ...
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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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Am I being spied on my messenger? [closed]
OK. Let's make it clear: I am in a corporate network, and I have suspicions on being spyed. Don´t problem with that, not my PC, not my network. It´s fine.
So, just curious: How I can know if they ...
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Best practices or experience with company wide Username policies and resolving duplicates
I am a programmer with an application that needs to be integrated into the new company wide Active Directory login scheme. This means changing all the usernames in our system to use the new scheme. ...
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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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Is it feasible to have home folder hosted with NFS?
I'm planning to deploy some kiosk computers and would like to leave them with a small pendrive as boot disk, keeping the rest at an easy to back up server, ala LTSP.
Right now I'm pondering two ...
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GRANT SELECT to all tables in postgresql
Is there a one-liner that grants the SELECT permissions to a new user postgresql?
Something that would implement the following pseudo-code:
GRANT SELECT ON TABLE * TO my_new_user;
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How do you optimize new user setup?
What's your top trick for getting a new employee set up quickly? Do you use images, scripts, something else?
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Migrate user profiles to new Active Directory Accounts
I have a few users in a very old workgroup that log directly into their local machines (Windows XP Pro). This week they're finally moving to active directory and will need to log into domain accounts ...
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Simple one-way synchronisation of user password list between servers
Using a RedHat-derivative distro (CentOS), I'd like to keep the list of regular users (UID over 500), and group (and shadow files) pushed to a backup server.
The sync is only one-way, from the main ...
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Windows Local Account and Group Maintenance
How does one remotely maintain Local Accounts and Groups in a Windows environment?
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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 transfer user accounts to a new Linux machine?
I currently have a Linux box hosting our internal Subversion repository. Access to this repository is via svn+ssh with authenticating happening against user accounts on the machine. I have recently ...
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How can I correlate a wall jack to a user/machine on the domain?
After reading Valve's new employee handbook, I was really interested in setting up a company map like they described on page 6:
"The fact that everyone is always moving around within the company ...
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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://myUser@mydomain.com/path/to/git
Now I need to add more users to be able to access that repository, ...
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How can I make gitosis distinguish between two users with the same username
I have a gitosis system that seems to be working correctly except for a common problem we run into where I can't distingush permissions between two users who have the same username, but different ...
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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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Limit bandwidth using tc, iptables, and htb
I'm running a Debian server and was wondering if there are good resources out there, to which you can point me, where I can read about traffic limitations.
I have couple users sharing one server. ...
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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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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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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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Windows Server 2008/R2: Change the maximum UserName length?
Is there any way to change the standard 20 character UserName maximum length restriction for local accounts?
(Server 2008 R2 to be specific)
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Manage Desktop Profiles Gnome or XFCE
I just set up a virtual machine for our software developers an now try to create the user accounts facing the following question:
Is there any possibility to distribute predefined desktop profiles ...
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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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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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Puppet - how can i copy a file to several user folders?
Well i was using the info on this:
Puppet - Any way to copy predefined custom configuration files for software on clients from the puppet master (host)?
But i need some more elaborated, because i ...
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Is NFS + NIS a modern good practice for Linux networks to achieve common logins and home directories?
I'm setting up a smallish network of Centos servers (less than 10) and I'd like to have common logins on all of them as well as network mapped home directories.
I used to work with Solaris quite a ...
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What files are created/modified when adding a user (useradd) in linux?
I know that /etc/group and /etc/passwd are modified, and /home/user/* is created, but are there others?
Thanks.
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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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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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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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Crate a new, read-only user in postgres
I would like to create a new user in an existing postgresql database on an Ubuntu machine. I want to grant this user a read-only access to all the tables.
How do I do it? Do I need to create a new ...
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Jail users in a directory
I have a vps running debian OS and would like to create user accounts on it.
I want it so that when the user logs in with sftp, everything in var appears to be their home directory and they cannot ...
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Setting up individually accessible public_html for each user of a linux machine
I have a dedicated server on which I have a site http://www.example.com
I need to create a user and:
allow him ssh and ftp access into it
allow him to access a page such as: ...
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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 new to the whole server area so I'm fairly unfamiliar with how to do this.
I'm working from a Windows 2008 Server with IIS ...
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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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Windows Server 2003: How do grant a user permission to create user accounts without adding to administrators group?
Simple newbie question I am sure. But I can't seem to find the information anywhere.
How do grant a user permission to create user accounts on the local machine without adding to administrators ...
