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How to use a custom skeleton directory with useradd?
I'm trying to create a new user account using a custom skeleton directory instead of the default /etc/skel.
Reading man useradd I'm pretty sure this should work:
useradd -m -d /home/foo -k /usr/...
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Lock Home Folder down for specific users (CENT OS)
I am running multiple users on my VPS with CentOS 7 64 bit. And, I want to be able to lock down their home directory. I want them to be able to access all sub folders in that home directory but not be ...
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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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Script to notify me when users are created
I've created a script from what ive found on the web to notify a SA of users being added to a server. I have it setup with a cron to run the script every 5 mins to monitor differences in the /var/log/...
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Add an aliases user root2, results changing the owner root to root2
Am looking to add an alias for the root user to log to the server with a different password
So I followed this advice
https://serverfault.com/a/870301/429729
by using the following command
useradd -o -...
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Create user without adding subuid range
Is it possible to create a new user e.g. with useradd without adding an entry to /etc/subuid even if the latter file exists?
I use /etc/subuid only to for the user namespacing by Docker but don't want ...
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su Authentication failure
OS Ubuntu 18.04
I am trying to add a user, with password, home directory, create a group with the same name, using a bash script.
I tried:
sudo useradd -U -m -p $(openssl passwd -1 'some_password') ...
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useradd from jenkins user error: useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later
I run a shell script (Centos 6.7) from jenkins containing this command, in order import root environment:
env -i `cat /home/admin/root_environment.sh` /home/admin/create_user.sh
The ...
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add system user without login but able to su without asking for password
I created a user "sysuser" with -r option, when trying to su using another non-root user I am prompted for password.
As "sysuser" is a system account and should not login, I did not set up a password....
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Is it possible to change the directory in which useradd creates its lockfiles?
Useradd creates lock files in /etc/ directory. Is it possible make it create them somewhere else?
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