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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map remote ssh user to a different local user
All my boxes have the same username for myself, except one legacy machine where I'm loath to try to change it. Whenever I ssh to the machine, I forget to specify my user name, and my password is ...
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Invite users to a Google Apps domain
I have a google apps domain which is associated with the google sites feature, google email and so on. How do you invite users to your google apps? According to the google apps help, there should be ...
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copying user profile on windows 7
Is there a tool or a trick to easily duplicate a windows profile?
My problem is that I have a local user profile and I like to copy that for another user.
Additionaly that profile was created ...
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Force specific usernames for Mercurial commits
We're switching from Subversion to Mercurial in our corporate environment. There will be a central repository that is accessible via HTTPS with basic HTTP authentication.
Now I'm curious whether it's ...
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How to secure Outlook Web Access against Brute Force attack?
I'd like to secure Outlook Web Access with Exchange 2010 against a brute force attack using account lockout.
What is the best way to do this?
I have the following group policy:
Computer ...
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Windows Security Dialog not showing when logging on to my server through remote desktop
I can't seem to figure out how to enable the Windows Security Dialog when logging on to my server. It works for another server we have:
I know it was somewhere in the settings, but right now it ...
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How do I limit the users a specific user can run commands in linux?
I have 2 user accounts, foo and bar
I want to allow user foo to execute commands as root and any other user ie:
sudo su root -c'./run-my-script'
sudo su bar -c'./another-script'
sudo su another -c'./...
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Change ownership of directory and all contents to a new user from root
I created a website under /var/www/html/ all under root, all images, files, .htacess, directories, etc... I uploaded and configured everything as root.
I want to make it it's own username/password so ...
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New AD user request form and workflow
I'm wondering if anyone is providing a solid solution for creating New Network User Account Request forms, and attaching workflows to them to automate account creation?
I'm currently investigating a ...
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Multiple users for same AWS-EC2 account
Is there a way to use one AWS-EC2 instance by 3 (X) different users, without sharing the .pem file?
Update: Is it possible for 3 users to access 1 ec2 instance by their individual ID/password/.pem
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What's the difference between 'useradd' and 'adduser'?
What's the difference between useradd and adduser? When/why should I prefer using one or the other?
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Mac OS X Server mobile account VS Time Machine Network Backup
I am installing a Server @home to manage the mac client's of my family. First I wanted to make time machine Backups over the internal network to an external Hard-drive which is connected to my Mac OS ...
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Why limit maximum username length to 8 characters?
Throughout my humble career in IT I generally see username length limited (typically to 8 characters). This occurs on a variety of systems including Active Directory and database apps.
Is there a ...
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Why isn't my Scheduled Task running a batch script?
OS: Windows 2003 Server
Setup: The batch file basically uses 7zip to zip up a few files into a location ready for uploading into an offsite location via FTP. I have run the batch file as myself and ...
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How to run Apache as another user? (as 'www', or 'apache') on my
I just recently deployed a LAMP stack that came as a package for Linode (a VPS host), I can successfully run Apache 2 but the process and all my files within are owned by root. On my shared web host I ...
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Local user accounts have disappeared after installing Active Directory and running dcpromo
I'm kinda newbie in this Windows 2008 Server R2 configuration stuff, so I would appreciate any help regards the issue I'm facing.
After a Windows 2008 Server R2 clean install I created a couple of ...
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Mass/bulk create user account in Active Directory with Exchange mailboxes
Every couple of months we have to create 30+ accounts so I was wondering what's the best way to bulk-create the accounts and their mailboxes.
We have AD on 2003 and Exchange 2007.
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Copying Windows 2003 local accounts
I have a need to duplicate a Windows 2003 server's local user accounts on another Windows 2003 server. As I'm a UNIX guy I'm a bit lost (on a UNIX system I'd just copy the relevant /etc/passwd, /etc/...
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Moving to an outsourced Exchange provider - turning Exchange off and updating user accounts
we used to have Exchange on the SBS 2003 server inside our AD environment. Earlier this year we moved to outside Exchange provider but for the time being our local Exchange was still up&running ...
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active directory users have auto-created private user share
Currently using server 2008 and a logon vbscript to auto mount 3 drives. I'd like to have a mapped network drive that goes to a user-private share automatically. Is this possible to rig up in a login ...
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Account management in a dual directory (Active Directory + LDAP) environment
We currently have AD and OpenLDAP deployed at our organization.
I was wondering if anyone has worked in a similar setup and would like to share some of the steps taken to keep the sysadmins sane.
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Windows Server Local Account Migration from 2003 to 2008
We have a windows 2003 server with around 2000+ local accounts on it. Most of these accounts are used simply to authenticate a user accessing a web application on the server (basic authentication in ...
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Streamline Active Directory account creation via automated web site
In my company we have high employee turnover, and hence our helpdesk receives about a dozen requests per week for new Active Directory accounts. Currently, we receive these requests simply via e-mail ...
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How to I Document User Rights on an existing Linux System?
Need to document user rights on an existing Linux system.
What commands, actions, etc. will allow me to gather complete user profiles?
User rights include, but are not limited to:
File/Directory: ...
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Active Directory Account Creation
We are creating the AD account and password automatically. The Helpdesk will not know the password or use it in way. I'm looking for other companies that are maybe doing the same type of procedure. ...
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Is it better so use numeric or name for user logins?
Is it better to have user logins based on a unique number or the users name.
eg
Numeric: sc12345
Based on name: simon.cropp, scropp or simoncropp
Some context.
Windows environment
MS Active ...
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Is the context of local user of AD-joined machine a domain machine account or of local machine account?
I am a developer and curious how Windows server machines are used.
A) I believe that they show interactive login screen but run without any user had ever logged-in.
Correct?
In context of definition ...
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Good ways to disseminate login information, especially when new users are created?
When you create user logins in bulk, with set passwords as many users are unlikely to change their passwords, how do you disseminate the information?
Students in our school division are automatically ...
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Windows user account gets automatically locked
One of the user accounts on a Windows 2003 server is frequently locked. Each time the "Account is locked" (roughly translated) checkbox is enabled in the Account Properties -> Account tab. The event ...
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Many users send using a single address, replies to that single address go to many users
I work in an office with a Microsoft Exchange server for email. I would like to have the following workflow:
John, Mary, or Sam send a message from Outlook on their respective computers.
The customer ...
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Active Directory Username Formats [closed]
I'm working on an open source project that will manage active directory users. I am looking for feedback from Windows/Active Directory Admins on the formats of usernames they prefer or their ...
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Why doesn't my Administrator account have access privileges?
We are running windows server 2003.I log in as Administrator but I don't have any access rights. I tried to create a new Administrator account but when logging into that one I still face the same ...
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Two users using the same same user profile while not in a domain
I have a windows server 2003 acting as a terminal server, this computer is not a member of any domain. We demo our product on the server by creating a user account. The person logs in uses the demo ...
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webmail suite recommendation [closed]
I have serveral emails in a few domains (email@domain1, email@domain2, email@domain3).
Currently they are on an owned email server and I am collecting emails via IMAP protocol (i would not like to use ...
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username and password for rsync in script
I'm creating a cron job to keep two dirs in sync. I'm using rsync. I'm running an rsync daemon. I read the manual and it says:
RSYNC_PASSWORD
Setting RSYNC_PASSWORD to the required ...
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Can I use email addresses as usernames with Subversion?
Will subversion accept usernames such as [email protected]?
We are using svn+ssh with public key authentication as per the official svn guide's ssh tips and tricks section.
Basically, we ...
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How to migrate a user from OS X 10.4 to OS X Server 10.6?
What is the best/safest way to migrate the data of a 10.4 OS X user to a 10.6 OS X Server? This user is a local user (no Open Directory, etc.) on both machines. They are connected through a local ...
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Is it possible to have localised Windows user names?
Is it possible to have localised Windows user names?
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Active Directory: Changing a name
I have a user with a typo'd name. For the sake of explanation, I'll say the username is lusername, first name Lindsay. Active Directory had the user initially named Lindsey Username, and I need it to ...
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Can I use Active Directory for user-level security in an Access application? Pretty Please?
My company makes fairly extensive use of an Access + MySQL application that would probably see some significant traffic on the Daily WTF if I posted the source code. The management of users and their ...
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Connect to Samba share with no username/password
I have just set up Samba on a CentOS 5 machine. It works OK, but I would like to configure it so that users can connect to Samba shares without the need to provide a user name and password. I have ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2: User account set to not show on login
This afternoon I set up a Win Server 2008 R2 system for use with Team Foundation source code control. In order to give my team-mates the right to connect, I had to create a user account for each ...
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User name before sudo
I got a script requiring sudo, but the script must set parameters according to the original user, such as:
chown "${USER}:${USER}" dir
If I set it under sudo, I just end up with chmod root:root, ...
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Changing Windows Domain UserName
i have a small network thats managed by a windows server 2003 box with active directory and microsoft exchange. I want to rename my username but want to know if anything is going to be affected by it.
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What characters should I use or not use in usernames on Linux?
I want to create user accounts named after a domain name. adduser complains that the usernames need to match the NAME_REGEX regular expression.
adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular ...
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How can I prevent a Windows 2003 local user account from being locked out?
I want to know if there's a way to prevent an account from every being locked out no matter how many times a password is entered incorrectly. I know this is not a good security practice, but that is ...
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Rename active directory account name
I have an existing user account within active directory. I'm using the naming convention "MyApp-dev" for dev, "MyApp-qa" for qa and so forth, up to prod.
Our IT services department wanted to rename ...
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crontab: login name too long
When I try to edit do crontab for a user with a long username on solaris 10 I get this error:
crontab: login name too long
Is this a known problem and is there a solution for it (without changing ...
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Install Java for just one user under Redhat Linux?
Is it possible to install a JDK on Linux (specifically RH 7.x) so that it exists in only a specific user's space?
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Network users having trouble with apps -- possible permissions problem
We've noticed some oddities where some applications don't work properly for users with existing network accounts [but, see the "User Comparison" section, as they do work with a test network account].
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