Questions tagged [user-accounts]
A user account is an access authorization to a restricted IT system. It consists mostly of a system wide unique user name an a password which are needed for authentication. IT systems use the user account to identify the individual user and grant him permissions which are associated with the user account.
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Microsoft account locks everytime PC goes to sleep, user cannot change password
In this case I'm a frustrated user asking as my company (who shall remain nameless) IT department seems unable to diagnose the issue with this, and my own web searching can't find anything either.
My ...
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Best strategy for fast deployment of equal workstations in a department
I'm planning to deploy around 50 workstations for a booking department in my company. All workstations has same hardware and same software, basically they are all the same, the only things that ...
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Adding users from DC to remote desktop users
How to add a user from DC to allowed remote desktop users for certain PC?
It lets me choose only users on local machine, although I am connected with a user defined in DC server. A domain user. Even ...
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Apache Authentication - Find out user password
My field of expertise is far away from server management but I am currently covering for a former collegue of mine, so I apologize in advance if my question doesn't make sense.
I have to restart an ...
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User account auto-creation using SSH certificate authentication
My SSH server is configured to use certificate authentication, so it will trust anyone who presents a certificate issued by the user CA when they connect.
For reasons related with audit logs, I don't ...
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Weird user creation / Is this some sort of attack?
For a few years now, a bot-like user tries to create 10-12 users a couple of times during a day first and last names like "rlpzieqT WHKLpdGQr" (on a website of mine). The ip address is ...
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cant' delete user with userid 502, 503 and on CentOS 6
I have a CentOS VM that shows the list of users like this:
drwx------. 2 504 504 4096 Dec 10 2000 username
So if I try to run the userdeel command I got a message saying that the user does not ...
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How to get name of BUILTIN\Users & BUILTIN\Power Users
Is there a universal way to get the principals BUILTIN\Users or BUILTIN\Power Users (specifically retrieve the name)
The obvious answer would be that I already have the names! However, they are called ...
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How to confgure multi realm Kerberos
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I want to set up 2 Kerberos realms where one can authenticate the users in the other.
Current Setup
I have 2 Kerberos Servers (ad.somedomain.com and kerb.foo.bar)
I have my users on kerb.foo....
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If a user returns after being deleted from AD, can they have the same username?
"Jan Smith" is returning to my small organization after a few years elsewhere. Her old AD profile ("jsmith") was deleted years ago and does not exist in Deleted Objects. We ...
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proftpd join multiple paths into single virtual filesystem for specified user
I've tryed configure proftpd for specified user, that join at least two directory paths as single filesystem tree, including chroot option (rootdir). Is it possible any way? Proftpd has support for ...
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User gets locked out frequently
I have a user that gets locked out of their AD account almost daily and sometimes multiple times a day.
The account even gets locked out when they are not working. They utilize 3 different computers ...
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Windows RDP won't allow confirmation of UAC prompt
When I am connected via rdp to another computer and when trying to perform any admin task this is the prompt I am getting. no "ok" no password nothing. just a "no"
locally the ...
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Support staff can reset some User passwords but not all?
In our environment we have two AD-accounts per person, one user level account and one admin level account.
Our support-staff can only reset user level accounts, which is good but I can't figure out ...
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Why does Azure AD joined account name on local computer not sync after change of UPN in Azure AD?
A user asked me to change his account name in Azure AD, which I did (actually did it through GoDaddy UI but end result is change of user principal name). The account name has changed on his Teams and ...
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How to Limit CPU Cores in Ubuntu / Virtualmin?
SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version
*Ubuntu Linux 20.04.4
Virtualmin version 6.17-3*
I am sole owner of my server and all the virtual servers. I want to limit the resources being used by servers. ...
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Changing Azure User Access Administrator?
The root User Access Administrator that is inherited by all our subscriptions is assigned to an account of an ex-employee. We're keeping that account alive so that we can continue to make changes as ...
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Updating AD attributes programmatically
My apologies, as I am an engineer not a sys admin, but am working with someone who is managing AD.
Current situation: We have an AD attribute that contains a longish parse-able string that contains ...
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Active Directory Domain User to be used to run Windows service
I have an Active Directory containing domain users for all employees that are used for computer login, file server permission, access control RDP, etc...
Also, I have more than one service that ...
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Is it possible to access MS Teams Team member tags via PowerShell or other means?
I was thinking of using Tags assigned to Users in a MS Teams (on Office365) Team for some reporting related things and query them in some PowerShell scripts. Is there a way to get this information?
I ...
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Why same user has different password and system properties over SSH and GUI login (Debian)?
I am using a VM on Google Cloud Platform. Once created it can be accessed through SSH through the GCP web GUI. When I access through SSH, I can use sudo to perform privileged actions. When I access ...
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AD keeps locking my account every 5 minutes, but without reason?
I know there are many threads who are similar like mine, but may I'm to stupid to get all these informations.
My problem is I changed my password and since them i get locked every ~5 minutes, I don't ...
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I need to create a group a group of pseudo admins in AD to manage users at a remote location, but I'm not sure how this should be done
My company is migrating/consolidating domains with several remote business we have purchased, and one of our remotes sites has a pre-existing IT department that we want to keep in place. We would like ...
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Create User active directory Bulk and home folder for user but folder Not Created
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I am trying to create a user with Active Directory and home folder automatically using bulk files and csv but when the user is done I check the user profile it redirects every user's home folder ...
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Bash - Run 'chage' Command Against Each User Account
I have to audit the users accounts on our linux servers in each environment so I want to script checking whether each account is expired or not. I have a for loop that's pulling user accounts listed ...
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How can I "archive" accounts in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC)?
I don't mean disabled... and I'm hoping for something other than "exported". Here's my problem: My org never deletes accounts (just disables them)--not my call. I've hidden the disabled ...
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Run Script over SSH with nologin user
I have to run a script from server A and connects to 20 more servers over ssh to pull information. Previously i was using a normal user, and that would become a problem once the password for that user ...
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In a windows domain, if I define the local Administrator group in Restricted Groups, does it remove Domain Admins?
It is my understanding that in a Windows domain, the Domain Admins group is automatically added to the local Administrators group for all domain members. I need to add another domain account to the ...
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How can I grant rights to update ServicePrincipalName when I can't see that option in the list?
I'll happily close this if its a dumb question. I am trying to grant rights to SELF on an AD service (user) account for a MSSQL Server instance account.
Problem is I cannot see the check box for Read ...
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How do I share all resources between two AWS Root accounts?
We have one person that has been in charge of all AWS resources for our company, including EC2, elastic IPs, EBS storage, etc. Now we want a second person to also have access to ALL the resources in ...
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How long should accounts be deactivated before being deleted?
How long should accounts be deactivated before being deleted? Should accounts be deactivated?
For example, our organization uses 1Password Business, which allows for accounts to be deactivated. How ...
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Linux user and password copy between servers with cron script [duplicate]
I have two Red Hat 7 Linux servers that I want to keep user accounts synced. I have a bash script that copies these files between servers:
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
/etc/gshadow
/etc/subuid
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Join PCs that were on old Windows 2012 server to new server AND new domain without breaking SIDS and trust
Background: Had a small 4 PC office on Server 2012r2 with domain named OLD-DOMAIN. Server was old and wonky and had to restore from full system image backup that was recent (as in a few days old).
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"Password never expires" greyed out?
I have domain users in an Azure AD DS.
I need to set some of those users with passwords that don't expire.
When I go to "Active Directory Users and Computers" on a machine in the domain, the ...
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Use of Account expiry, disable and lockout in Active directory
I am learning the concepts of active directory. Recently I learned the difference in Account lockout, expiry and disable. My question is all these types are doing the same thing but the purpose is ...
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I can't access my account after unmounting my home directory and doing lvremove (centos7)
I do not have an IT background. I am working things out on my own, so I would really appreciate your help on this as I am in a panic at the moment.
I wanted to increase the size of my /home directory (...
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How to manage local accounts on a windows office network?
I've recently had to assume the role of a network admin in a small office running a network of about 20 computers with a main server running Windows Server 2019. This server contains our AD as well ...
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Logging SSH commands on Linux - is custom kernel the only way?
I've done some research and it looks like that the way linux keeps history is less about security and audit and more about helping the user.
Even after making changes to instantly log the command and ...
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Event 1007: The share denied anonymous access to the client
the body of evevnt is:
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**The share denied anonymous access to the client.
Client Name: \10.139.70.35
Client Address: 10.139.70.35:49157
Share Name: \*\in
Share Path: ??\C:\Users\jodat\Desktop\...
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Cognos Analytics 11.1.6 - Reports Requesting User ID and Password When Clicked
I'm running Cognos Analytics 11.1.6 and restored a bunch of reports from the previous server that was running 10.2.2. A user mentioned that when she clicks a report on the 11 instance she is required ...
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Replacing GoDaddy Office 365 accounts with Exchange mailboxes
I'm currently working for a company that had an inefficient setup for their "department" mailboxes (i.e. mailboxes like info@company.com, queries@company.com, etc). I quickly realised that I ...
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Expired Windows Account Password
I need to programatically change my windows admin password without using the login screen.
Essentially we deployed 50+ laptops across our business.
We setup 1 user account and 1 admin account (same ...
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One AD Account logging into 50+ machines simultaneously
I have an AD Domain set up specifically for running computer-based exams at multiple locations. One site sits 50-100 exams and needs to start them at the exact same time and they all login to the ...
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Active directory fears
I want to implement active directory in my organization but my major challenge is that i have already installed an application on the server(windows 2016 server standard) that uses sql 2012 and sql ...
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Is it bad to use a Linux username that is the same as a Linux command?
Let's say your name is Ed. Would it be bad to make your username "ed" if it coincides with the line-oriented text editor by the same name, ed?
https://linux.die.net/man/1/ed
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How to enum user account and get detailed account message in Windows operating system?
I want to get all user account messages in Windows operating system from remote Linux machine. There are no any services or functions that can support it in Windows operating system. Now I connect to ...
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AD best practise delete or just disable?
As an IT company that delivers IT systems, servers and everything for our customers. I'm trying to find the best practice when it comes to Active Directory and users leaving the company.
We have ...
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How to create a very limited linux user
I need a user in my linux machine to execute some commands in .bash_profile. But I don't want this user can have access to sftp, ftp and any other protocols. Also any commands can't be executed except ...
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What folder should be the home of the web root owner?
I'm setting up a SLES 12 system for running web applications on it. There is already a /srv/www folder and it's going to be owned by a special user (let's say: web user).
Is there a good practice / ...
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Is it possible to let nginx run as a different user for a location?
My nginx is running as user nobody:nogroup.
But I want a certain location of server clause to be protected and owned by specific users. Basic Authentication is easy enough to set up, but the ...
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