Questions tagged [users]
Humans using a system. They try to break everything. Always handle with caution. Expect the unexpected.
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Runuser Not Return Expected Results
There are two accounts in my linux computer, appuser and root. For testing purpose I wroto below code into /home/appuser/.profile
export key=value
then as root I execute below commands separately:
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NFS super simple user mapping between Windows (NFS “share”) and Unix (mount_nfs)
I have a Windows 2012 server system all firewalled off to do one particular task only converting files using a program that only runs on Windows. That Windows server exports a directory (a so called &...
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Trying to programmatically create new Windows user's profile
Trying the low-impact solution as mentioned in the post:
how can I programmatically cause a new windows users profile to be created
Suggestion was to run a command as that user using psexec.exe for ...
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allow ssh AD authentication while keeping few local users
Need to use AD for user authentication in Linux servers, while keeping only a limited (1-2) local users.
AD authentication is done through the Kerberos. pam.d file configuration as follows
cat /etc/...
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Group Policy to copy users profiles to the server
This is my first time asking here but, I tried to find a solution but nothing so far,
I want to create a GPO that will automatically copy the user's profiles of all computers for a folder in the ...
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SFTP user creation in Windows OpenSSH
We have installed an SFTP server as per
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_windows_openssh_server
Now we are able to connect via WinSCP and FileZilla.
But by default, account login to SFTP is Windows ...
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Windows 10: sticking several domain accounts to the login screen
I would like to stick permanently 3 domain users to the login screen in Windows 10. So that they choose their account and enter the PIN, but without entering the login and password. Is it possible?
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Multiple LDAP servers
I have two OpenLDAP servers:
the server A with Linux VMs a1 and a2 connected to it (PAM LDAP)
the server B with Linux VMs b1 and b2 connected to it (PAM LDAP)
The servers have different users stored ...
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Is it safe to have servers running with the user `systemd-coredump` on CentOs 7
I am running some Dockerized services on CentOS servers. If I don't explicitly change users inside the docker file, the processes (for example php-fpm or mysqld) run on the host machine under the user ...
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Azure AD Guest Users missing email address
One of my flow fails because "Created by Email" is not set for an external user. I checked the guest user. Looks like the email field is not populated. I see there are a lot Guest users in ...
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Add user home directory depending hostname
Is it possible to add a list of users and change the home directory of each user depending on the host name of the server?
Thanks in advance
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How do I harden nginx to serve user-generated content?
nginx, is, as far as I know, relatively secure. I'm working on a site that lets users upload content to their own paths on the site. I use proxy_pass for my main site at /, but how should I configure ...
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Cannot add B2B Invites
User the Global Administrator account and/or Guest Inviter role not able to add any more new B2B external users. I have added 6 B2B users already a week or so ago.
Give me an error say
Graph call ...
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Should I remove almost all users in Ubuntu?
I want to defend my ubuntu server from unauthorized logins. I have an all users list. There are a lot of users. You can see a list on screenshot. Should I remove all the users except mine?
I want to ...
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How to run a powershell script with logged in user using SCCM 2002
I have a PowerShell script (package) which need to run with the logged in domain user account in order to get a file from intranet site. It should be silent installation without any user intervention
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list the users name in specific OU+ the Groups
I need to write a Powershell Script to list the users name in specific OU+ the Groups in which the user belongs to (but I need to list specific Group and not to see all Groups).
Ex : OU : A
Users ...
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Let one user become another user without a password?
On (most) Linux systems, we can let a specific user su into anyone they want by placing him in the wheel group and making some settings in /etc/pam.d/su.
I want to do something more limited: I want to ...
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Quota exists for deleted groups
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.
I'm trying to set up group quota for a disk on the server.
I added 5 users to group1 and 7 users to group2.
Then I set group quotas for a disk on the server and checked the ...
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New Debian 10 server: add client websites in /home/clientname/webapps/ or /var/www/clientname/webapps/? [closed]
I'm used to setting up client websites in /home/clientusername/ with subdirectories such as webapps/, html/, cgi-bin/, logs/ etc. (for both Apache and NGINX) so clients can manage their own files, ...
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Ubuntu Server 16.04 log message
I've recently started running check_mk (few days) to monitor my network and servers and started receiving critical service errors for service user@1002. When I take a look at the logs on the server, ...
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Recover files on a Windows 7 host from a user who has been deleted from active directory?
Is there a way to recover data (Files, Programs, etc...) on a Windows 7 machine assigned to a specific Active directory user, that has since been deleted from Active Directory? For some reason the ...
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Can roles be enabled on users of a group in keycloak?
Can we have users added under a certain group and then give few roles to each of these groups in keycloak? For example, if we have a group called 'admin', all users under this group will have read/...
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How to permit the chown use to a regular user, but only on its home directory?
I'm trying to allow regular user A to execute chown command to a list of user B,C,D having as object any files located into its home directory.
In other words, I would try to limit the chown "root ...
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Can I delete initial ubuntu user on Ubuntu server?
Ubuntu installer create by default an initial user called ubuntu (that it's also a sudoers), as explained here.
On my server I have created another sudoer (with a less common name) and I would like ...
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pre launching systemd user processes
I've configs in place to start resque-first.target, then resque-metro.target and finally resque-prisma.target, but for some reason they all start at the same time
systemctl --user cat resque-worker....
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Setting nice value of all user processes in realtime based on his CPU usage
In order to balance users CPU consumption on a shared computing server, I would think it very useful if one could:
set the nice level for all processes of a user
furthermore, adapt this level in ...
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What determines the user a services started
I thought, that the service files under /lib/systemd/system/ determine as what user a service is started.
But apparently that's not (always) the case.
Here's an example:
~# ps faux
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whoopsie 1445 ...
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What is the default user when running job/playbook from AWX?
I am running a job/playbook (git source) from AWX GUI, but it keeps connecting over ssh to managed hosts as a root user.
In credentials I filled SSH PRIVATE KEY, USERNAME is blank and the default ...
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[Wordpress][htaccess] Prevent not logged in users access to pdf, doc, docx, odt files
i have the following code on my htaccess, it works for all users but i want deny access only to not logged in Wordpress users, anyone can help me? Thanks!
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}...
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Users cannot log into VM server that is joined to a DC
I've been having a problem recently where i have a VM machine that is running windows server 2012 which is connected to a DC running the same OS, on the DC i have ADUC running with all of my users ...
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LDAP Linux import user shell config files
I want to know if it's possible to import some user config files (shell config for zsh or bashrc for example) from our LDAP when a user login for the first time ?
It's exactly what mak /etc/skel but ...
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Can we increase MTSUser validity?
Our Content Manager Tridion uses a Windows account "MTSUSer" which gets expired in every 90 days, then we request windows team to reset the password as we do not have admin rights in production. Is ...
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SELinux port type to reserve port for user PHP in-built webserver
I am trying to get an application running which uses the PHP inbuilt webserver. It gives permission denied because of SELinux running on the system. There is no policy for the PHP inbuilt webserver as ...
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Attach root-user screen session as non-root user
I have a screen session that is started by root and I would like the non-root account (guest) be able to attach the root user's screen session in multi-user mode with screen -x. Is this possible?
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How can I add a folder to the root of the default user?
There is a program we have that needs to be set up after the user signs in. This change is the same for everyone and only needs to be done once. We are trying to present that app in Citrix and are ...
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GPO vs attributes for users exctracting using CSVDE
I am currently in doubt about how the GPO is changing the attributes of the users registered in the AD.
I have a Windows Server 2019 Datacenter and I have a few active users that have the flag "...
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If I have user/host pair “root@<MyMachineName>”, is it necessary to keep “root@localhost” in the mysql host/users table? (multi-part Q)
On computer "dexwin10", the user@host pair is as follows:
root@dexwin10
root@%
root@localhost
When people install our software, we want them to be able to access the database from computers ...
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Is there a way to determine the Hostname or IP of a computer given the AD user account logged in?
If I know John Doe is logged into a workstation on my network, is there a way to determine what computer he is on using his account, in Powershell preferably.
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What happens if you “print” an application or program in Windows?
What happens if you right click on an application/program in Windows, and click "Print"? I accidentally almost did this when I right clicked a program icon to open from the desktop, but accidentally ...
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Deleted users still apear in terminal output
ubuntu 16.04 lts
After creating a user with useradd
sudo useradd -G sudo -m -d /home/user -s /bin/bash user
and then deleting it with
`sudo deluser user`
the user still appears after typing
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Create a list of user whose home directories have no files newer than 7 years
I have an old storage with hundreds of user home directories. I want to reclaim some disk space by deleting all "old" home dirs. It's on a linux server, RHEL 6. I want to delete the entire home dir., ...
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What should the home directory of a non-interactive user account be set to?
[root@Acheron ~]# systemctl status shadow
● shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
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Rename a linux user (and their home folder) with Ansible
I have a linux user with various folders and files in their home:
User: foo
/home/foo/somefolder
I want to rename this user and move their home directory to end up with:
User: bar
/home/bar/...
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Gitlab filesystemuser messed up
I have inherited a server with an installed GitLab, but it is unable to run. After a few lookarounds, I've found, it might had a user who got deleted, and the original user to run gitlab was him. I ...
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PHP creates files as root user instead of nginx
I've set up a new server on Debian Stretch.
The web server user is nginx:
ps aux | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\ -f1
nginx
I have already ...
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User sessions under the systemd control group hierarchy, why it's needed?
When a user log in a server with systemd, the PAM logic execute pam_systemd.
With that module, the users are registered under the systemd control group. This is an example of two users (root and a ...
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Can't change user to mpm-itk user
I tried to use mpm-itk to isolate my apache virtual host using this tutorial. I created user bean and group bean, I created a password for this user using passwd bean. When I try to swith to this ...
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Single session limit for sftp user
I just want to set limit on sftp connection.
Like if i set a session limit 1 so that user can make only 1 connection from that username. I don't want ip based or port based limit.
I have tried /etc/...
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How do I specify NetworkService or LocalService for a Windows Service on a Domain Controller?
This question is a not duplicate of these existing questions:
AUTHORITY\NetworkService does not exist (question is for Windows Server 2003
How can I run a process as "NT Authority\NetworkService&...
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freeradius: assign IP from specific pool filtered by user
I'm new here.
I have a freeradius 3 with sqlippool and LDAP authentication (with a "guest" file-configured user), all working fine.
I have 2 sqlippools:
-main_pool
-guest_pool
I want to do the ...
