Questions tagged [users]
Humans using a system. They try to break everything. Always handle with caution. Expect the unexpected.
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How to add a user to a group?
Self-mockery : Fantastic question.
I followed sudo usermod -a -G grp uzr in order to add uzr into grp.
When I type groups uzr I get uzr : adm cdrom ... grp and when I'm logged in with uzr I type ...
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Get list of users in a group in FreeBSD
How to get a list of usernames assigned to a group in FreeBSD 11.1?
This Question asks for a list of users or a list of groups.
This Question asks for users who happen to be members of multiple ...
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An issue with apache and sftp users
I have installed an apache server, then I have created SFTP user webdev and uploaded all website files with FileZilla to /var/www/mysite.com/public after this action all my files are with ownership ...
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Windows DC event 4769: why some users appear to connect to themselves
Windows domain controller event 4769: We noticed that most of the users are trying to connect to themselves, i.e. they appear both in the account name and service name fields for this event.
This ...
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How Apache and ProFTPD should work together, users and groups ect
I have Apache server running on apache:apache and ProFTPD running on ftpuser:ftpgroup, all my websites are under /var/www/ which is owned by root:root.
So the question is when I create a new website ...
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Centos httpd with vsftpd
Currently got a VPS setup with CENTOS 7 to serve as a web server. Httpd is all setup and working and so is vsftpd. Getting logged in no bother and wordpress pages showing as required.
The problem is,...
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Non-standard site directories
You know that by default, servers like nginx and apache use standard directories for sites. Like "public_html", "www".
And I noticed that on multi-user setups the sites are placed in the user's home ...
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Windows users/groups - Anonymous Logon, Everyone, Guest - what is what?
During installing and scheduling connection via DB-links, I've come accross settings permissions for the libraries (DLLs) for the account/group Everyone and account/group ANONYMOUS LOGON. So far, I ...
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Freebsd shutdown privileges
I need to create a user and deny them permission to turn off the machine.
DO SOMEONE KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE PERMISSIONS OF A NORMAL USER TO NOT ALLOW ME TO TURN OFF?
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Ansible - Using different users to login when working on a dynamic inventory
I'm trying to install a package on a list of servers, these have a tag in common so I'm using that tag as they are all having Environment tag set to Dev. But the issue is some of them have OS as ...
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Azure Portal BizSpark Subscription - Is there any Max limit and cost for adding Users?
I am having Azure BizSpark Subscription in Azure Portal, and I want to add Guest Users and grant them roles/resources separately. I searched documentations but not able to find whether adding Guest ...
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Do not show all docker containers to a particular user
I want to use one server to host multiple docker-containers. I want to give another user a possibility to manage new docker-containers, but I do not want to give him access to all other containers, ...
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Import users from Gitlab 6.0.1 instance to Gitlab 11.2.1-ee instance
We have two gitlab instances, running on our servers.
We want to move users from our old instance (6.0.1) to new instance 11.2.1-ee.
We want to move SSH keys and other settings of all users to new ...
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Locked out of MySQL; how to sign in from specific IP Address?
When I was managing the users and privileges for a SQL server, I accidentally locked myself out. To explain there were previously multiple combinations of users and hosts that had access to the DB (...
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powershell - get from ad group user name and they group
in my AD I have security group "Citrix" and in this group I have added a lot of groups "Citrix 1", "Citrix 2", and more... in this group has add users.
I need to get information with powershell users ...
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Properly implement REMOTE_USER-like thing for ssh
I'd like to know how to make the remote user name available in an ssh session on my server. So when joe@host1 logs in as commonuser@server1, the scripts running on server1 running as commonuser will ...
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Linux: add an sftp user who can only access a web root subdirectory (not their home folder)
I see a lot of instructions on how to create an SFTP user and jail them to the /home/username directory. However, I want an SFTP user to only access a directory like this:
/var/www/html/website.com/...
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Apache not running as user with mpm_itk
I have mpm_prefork and mpm_itk loaded with Apache (on CentOS). A httpd -M | grep mpm reveals the following:
mpm_itk_module (shared)
mpm_prefork_module (shared)
I my vhost configuration I have ...
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How to create a single Authentication point with multiple LDAP servers?
I'm currently into a process of creating a central service system from where users can connect to VMs.
My goal with this is to have a single point of authentication for all possible users.
The issue ...
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How to enable ssh access without public/private keys?
I am building a progressive cyber challenge for my club members (the challenges work), but what I was trying to do to make the progressive part is have each challenge reveal the password for the next ...
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List all users with ALL PRIVILEGES in MySQL
I need to find a way to list all database users that have ALL PRIVILILEGES on *.* (all databases and tables). Additionally, it would be great if it could also list only those with GRANT OPTION.
My ...
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Windows server - moving to new server with AD
I want to add/copy users on new server with AD from server without AD ( Windows 2012). What is recoomended scenario ?
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how to manage Multiple User Acceptance Tests at once
Our current setup has the following environments:
development
testing
staging
production
We are finding that things are being held back at the testing phase due to UAT taking longer than expected ...
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Creator of the instance
I am trying to figure out how to get information about who is the creator of an instance in the GCP.
The use case: I wish to build a certain automation, and one of the requirements is to get ...
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Solaris local users querying centralized LDAP
I have a centralized posix ldap that store some users and a lot of solaris servers that points to.
The users stored in ldap are able to authenticate on solaris servers.
When I look to ldap access ...
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How can I start puma under a specified user/group?
I'm using Rails 5 and the Puma 3 gam on CentOS. Is it possible (and how?) to specify the user and group under which puma runs when it is started? I need to start it with the appropriate user/group ...
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How to check which linux system user is logging to the mysql database?
Is it possible to check witch user logged to the Debian server log in to the MySql or some solution to create that thing.
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user quota value deleted on reboot
I´ve activated user quota on Debian 9. I´ve set a quota by command
edquota -u testuser
I´ve set a value for soft (20000000) and hard (20100000) and saved the file.
repquota -a shows the newly ...
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Standard groups and users on RHEL 7 base
Could anyone provide me with a list of the default groups and users which ship with RHEL 7.x base installation?
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Vsftpd virtual users can't write to /var/www/ folders on Amazon Linux
I am trying hard (tried 100 different posts) since yesterday to configure VSFTPD virtual user to give write permission to /var/www folder.
I am trying this on EC2-Amazon-Linux
My vsftpd.conf is as ...
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How to upload via SFTP so that files and folders belonged to 'www-data' group?
A user112 belongs to www-data group and all website's files/folders belong to that group. However, when I upload new files/folders via SFTP with user112 credentials, the uploaded files/folders belong ...
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Windows Server 2012 to add Domain Controller role / local accounts
I have Windows Server 2012 joined into domain, I am going to migrate it to become also Domain Controller for my domain that will have Remote Desktop services.
What would happen with local users that ...
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Cannot login into gerrit
I have a gerrit setup on my server with http as a authentication method and nginx as server. I've created a admin account which works perfectly fine. I was trying to set up a another account with ...
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Why a separate user for MPI jobs?
Many of the tutorials on setting up a cluster with MPI suggest creating a separate user with limited permissions (1, 2). This means running jobs requires logging into a separate user, and is obviously ...
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GCP user groups?
In GCP, are we able to group users like how we do in Active Directory? I was thinking, instead of assigning roles to individual users, I can assign to groups which is more manageable. Thanks.
google-cloud-platform
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Shared folders on EC2 Windows without Active Directory
I'm facing an issue with sharing folders on Windows Server. The application is as follows:
There are 3 servers, one "source" and two "targets". The source has a service running on it, which ...
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Give user permission to change IP address from static to DHCP and vice-versa
Let me start by saying I am somewhat of a Linux newb. I have inherited some basic Ubuntu systems to admin (Ubuntu 16.04). I have a couple users that need to plug their machines from the network to ...
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Revert a user modification (usermod) in SSH
I ran usermod -s /bin/false ftpuser2 and now I'm unable to use the FTP service with my secondary account. How can I revert this command?
If you ask me what I've tried, nothing, and don't wish to, ...
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VSFTPD – How to fix this security issue? [duplicate]
I've created a user called example using adduser command and setted its password and everything. That was part of the VSFTPD setup process.
However, I've noticed that I can also access using the port ...
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How to create extra root user? [closed]
I have tried making a root2 user which should have the same permissions as root by doing
useradd -g root root2
passwd root2
usermod -G root root2
usermod -aG wheel root2
but root2 can still not cat /...
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Restarting a systemd service upon a network 'up' event
My system requires the use of a vpn, of which I use expressvpn which is based upon OpenVpn but uses its own systemd daemon. All connect/disconnect commands must go through the provided binary. In ...
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Manage list of local users via ansible
I have Linux servers that are using local accounts and I would like to find a way, with ansible, to maintain them.
My goal is to keep the same list of users on all servers and be able to efficiently ...
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Sql Server user password changes by itself
This the same question as this:
Sql server automatically change password
However, the user never specified how he fixed it, he only said that he fixed it. I am having the exact same issue. ...
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“user is not in the sudoers file” despite user belonging to group wheel
I've added a new user to the group wheel. I can ssh into the machine with this user and password and confirm that it belongs to that group:
[newuser@xxx.xxx ~]$ groups
newuser wheel
But still, if I ...
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Apply GPO to certain users
I went through some GPO documentation and it seems really straigforward but I'm still stuck, I have a OU called Users and I created a GPO that simply mapped a drive for a single user and I applied it ...
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Configure ldap client to not search local system accounts in ldap server
We've an ldap server and clients configured to authenticate users against it. Everything is working fine apart that I saw in the ldap server logs that says that the clients also contact the ldap ...
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server capability, requirements [closed]
Ok, I am new here. Sorry if Im posting in a wrong way.
I work in a school where most of the employee downloaded movies and stuff that used most of the bandwidth while we have a dedicated internet of ...
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Login some users as root with SSH and LDAP
I have a SSH + LDAP installation with users public keys stored in LDAP.
I want that when some user in a list (configured into server) do a ssh connection with ssh user@server always log in as root. ...
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temporary user profile on windows
everytime I log into the computer I am getting Message you are logged in With a temporary user profile. How can I fix this problem? I set up pc With New Windows 7 still i am getting the Message. I am ...
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Web app user sees content of other web apps
On Debian VPS server, there are two web applications in separate directories, let's call them publicapp and privateapp.
There are users for each application (user publicappuser and privateappuser).
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