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Linux group / user permission issue
Redhat 5.5, logged in as root
I created a group dev-core
groupadd dev-core
Then I create a new user tony
useradd tony
I changed tony's password and added tony to group dev-core
usermod -a -G ...
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command for list users in linux system
How can i list all the linux users when the ldap autentication is cofigured? I remember that there are one command to list the /etc/passwd files and the ldap users.
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How can I add CAC user name to my web page and logging?
I have a win 2008 server IIS7 and users who login with a CAC card. I want to add the user's CAC card user name to the web page when they login. And I'd also like to log user info from CAC card to my ...
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Lync User Migration Strategy
We are starting to put the finishing touches on our Lync server roll out and a few of our IT staff have been manually migrated over. Things are going well.
We've started to think about migrating our ...
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Run legacy application on Windows
I've got an application (guiformat) which needs to run on clients in a network. However, it seems to require Administrator privileges to run. Clients run either Windows XP or Windows 7, and users log ...
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Allow scp/ssh for www-data user
I am on Amazon EC2 using Ubuntu 10.04.2
My web folder is owned by www-data so I want to be able to log into my server as www-data for ssh and scp.
Thanks!
Adding the line to my /etc/ssh/sshd_config ...
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Limiting user permissions to single folder while also being accessible by the apache user
I have a website running on Apache under Linux in the directory /var/www.
This site has some files outside the web directory root in /var/www-store which are written to and read by the apache user ...
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MSSQL db_datareader to All databases
I have 100 databases in MSSQL 2008 Server. I need to create a read only user to read all these databases. Is there a server wide role: db_datareader I can assigned the user to, so that I don't need to ...
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Set different PHP UID for Apache VirtualHost
I have many VirtualHosts for different users. How can I set UID for PHP process per VirtualHosts?
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php server web user setup
I'm needing to setup a basic web user account on my ubuntu 10.10 server to host web pages. This account should be limited to access only the necessary directories on the machine. I setup the following ...
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Server 2003, How to setup the Firewall for Remote Desktop Connection
My company owns a cloud server having Windows 2003 Web Edition installed on it. This server can be access by anyone through remote desktop connection. I want to place some kind of restrictions on ...
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Web server end user monitoring
I am searching for a solution to monitor access and activities on my web server. There are only a handful of people who are allowed to access my https or ftp/sftp server and I would like to know:
Who ...
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MySQL: Replicating the MySQL database
I have a primary write server (server1) which replications to two servers (server2 and server3) which are query servers. I am replicating all databases to these servers including the MySQL database.
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How can I automatically delete Linux users after fixed period?
I have a script that programmatically creates users, but we'd like to delete the users after 48 hours, as well as any files they own.
I know you can set an expiration with the useradd command, but I ...
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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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Installing MoinMoin -wiki to my user directory on a server with no root access
I posted this on webapps, but they told me to come here :)
I've been trying to install MoinMoin -wiki on this webserver, where I have no root access.
The server doesn't support wsgi, but it does ...
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Cleaning Up Unused Users and Groups (Ubuntu 10.10 Server)
I'm very much a beginner when it comes to Ubuntu and I've been learning the ropes by diving in and writing a (backend-language independent) web app framework that relies on apache, some clever ...
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Environment variables and further user setup
I have a jar file, which works in many machines. However we just asked for a new unix user to install it, and it is not behaving the same... wonder if it could be anything related to some env. var.
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Special SSH Configuration
At the moment in my sshd_config I have it set so that passwords cannot be used and only keys can be used to login.
I need to enable passwords for one user. This user is yet to be created and has to ...
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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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binding unix user to mysql
I am just asking myself if it is possible to bind unix users to mysql.
So that I can bind databases to users or groups known by unix.
Thx,
Axel
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Nginx html folder
The files in the folder "/usr/share/nginx/html" belongs to the user "nginx" (or root ?), the primary user "2x2p1p" can't modify these files, then the best thing to do is:
1 - Change the user and the ...
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User's privilegies (Mysql, Nginx, Php-fpm)
got questions of unsuccessful searches
1 - Why almost every software should run with its own user, is so simple run everything with a single user, why no one do that ?
2 - Why can't I just set the ...
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vsftp give user only access to a certain folder
I use CentOS 5.5 and I installed vsftp.
I created a user "myUser" and every time I use Filezilla and log with this user I get directed to the users home-folder, but still have access to pretty much ...
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Check who is logged in on another machine without ssh?
Is there a way to find out who is logged in to another Linux machine on the network given the machine name and not just sshing into that machine and running who? I'd prefer a way directly in python, ...
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Using UTF-8 in the /etc/passwd file. Any known issues?
I was recently asked to modify the GECOS field in the passwd file for a certain user so that it will contain his name with his original accented characters. My first was reaction was "sure, why not?" ...
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Jail user to only read/write into their user directory
I'm running a Ubuntu server and wanted to know if there was a way to only allow a user (connecting via FTP and SSH) read and write access to their own /home/user/ directory and not let them read or ...
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Creating Linux Accounts with Home Directory Symlinks
My workplace is setting up a new server for hosting PHP applications. I work at a university, and this will essentially be a playground to keep faculty and staff who want to tinker with PHP away from ...
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How do I deny a user-based Group Policy for a specific computer?
So we have a GPO setup to redirect "My Documents" to a server location for all users in the domain (it's linked to the root "Users" OU). This works just fine, but we have 2 special workstations that ...
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What Command(s) List a User's System Permissions in Linux?
QUESTION: What Command(s) List a User's System Permissions in Linux?
CURRENT_OS: CentOS-5.X
MORE_INFO/QUESTIONS:
Looking for commands that will NOT be seen as aggressive or change the system, ...
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Cannot remove user account as the domain administrator
win2k3. Logged in as the domain admin account, I cannot modify a specific user. I can edit other users. Almost every change I try gives "access denied". This users is a former domain admin who is no ...
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Which user takes precedence domain controller administrator or local PC user created using user account for Windows 2003
I need to know which user takes precedence, domain administrator or local PC user created using user account for Windows 2003.
Basically, what I want to know is if there is a service running using a ...
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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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mod_wsgi with dynamically allocated UIDs
I have a system where users upload wsgi applications and we serve them using apache/mod_wsgi. For scaling reasons, we're simply using the WSGIDaemonProcess directive and setting them to dynamically ...
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how to add quota for new user
I have quota enabled for /. I have two users currently. quota applies to both users.
When add new users say user3. Editing edquota -u user3 won't work? Do i need to run quotacheck after running ...
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How to log processes shown in top by user to a text file?
I need to log all processes (including the amount of CPU usage used, the time it was running for, etc...) to a txt file; preferably one entry per line as it appears in top.
The user appears to be ...
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urgent! I deleted the default user in sql server 2008. help
i saw this in logins
computername/username
and i deleted it!
now can not log into sql srv mangmnt sttdio 2008
no the mixed mode is not enable, can not use the sa account its disabled default
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IIS 7.5 running Classic ASP connecting to UNC path problem
Moving from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2.
We have a classic ASP site that connect to a remote UNC '\10.1.40.7\' path.
When I run PROCMON on the web server, it says ACCESS ...
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wget only works for some users
Currently have a strange situation: wget only works for one user on a system -- and root isn't it.
There are three user accounts, user A, B and root. User A can use wget with no problems. User B and ...
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Make all accounts use the same kind of Bash
On a dedicated server we use the shell is setup differently between accounts, which is quite irritating. When I ssh into most users I get:
[user@machine some_dir]$
However, with some accounts I ...
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cannot centrally administer user profile in wink2003
I have created one shared folder to store domain user roaming profile on a profile server. The issue is only the user has the right to open the user profile folder on a profile server, not even the ...
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Ok, i know i messed things up pretty bad… virtualmin sub domain user taken over root login
ok, here is the scenario, i was playing around the import wizard and imported a subdomain i had created on a linode and now im having trouble cause the user i assigned to the subdomain is root. Now ...
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Figure out php user without shell access
Is there a way to figure out which user it is that executes a php-script in a webserver using php-commands? (I don't have shell access to the server running httpd, so I cant use ps.)
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Can you run a specific tomcat Web Application under another user?
We're developing a web-app running under tomcat which relies on Java User preferences to store all kind of settings. That works great, but we've run into problem where we needed to set up another ...
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Ubuntu--cant create new database with phpmyadmin its writes: no privileges
Hi I have probem with phpmyadmin on ubuntu (My desktop computer):
cant create new database with phpmyadmin its writes: no privileges.
How privaleges can be enable that i will able to create new ...
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How to tell start-stop-daemon to update $HOME and $USER accordingly to --chuid parameter
I'm trying to run a service that uses $HOME and $USER environment variables. I could set them in service itself, but that would only be a temporary solution.
Let's say I have a script test.sh with ...
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Debian: create a new user without home directory
How do I create a new user in Debian without home directory?
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Debian: how to create a user with root privileges (sudo)
How do I create a user with root privileges in Debian? Maybe it sounds a bit silly, but I don't think I need user directories, only some rights to run services (mainly web server, mysql, etc.). I just ...
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tomcat6 on ubuntu fails when user set to root
I'm well aware that running tomcat6 is really bad from a security point of view - and opens the box it is running on to all kinds of security risks and attack vectors. That said:
When I change the ...
