Questions tagged [users]
Humans using a system. They try to break everything. Always handle with caution. Expect the unexpected.
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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:
[[email protected] ~]$ 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 straightforward but I'm still stuck.
I have an OU called Users, and I created a GPO that simply maps a drive for a single user, and I applied ...
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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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Give server accounts to webmasters
I create a system for multiple web masters for storing and serve their websites. They have their linux accounts and home directories. Their public_html folders are linked via ln -s command to ...
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LDAP - complex configuration involving multiple uid=oracle and other users
We've got openLDAP running, but a somewhat unique? situation that I'm not sure how to describe. Trying to find a better solution than what we've got.
tl;dr: How to allow:
a FooCo system to allow ...
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CMD User Active Directory
I'm working in a small business and I am the administrator of the Active Directory using Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 7 machines.
I want to create a user who can only access the CMD (find the ...
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Which is the safer "contingency" ubuntu sudo user approach?
I was just seeking some advice on (opinionated?) security concious, best-practices for this situation:
I have an Ubuntu VPS (on Azure) running a couple of websites. These servers are quite hardened ...
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make shutdown / reboot warn on a shared server in case of user sessions or high load
Is there an easy way to warn an admin on shutdown, reboot, poweroff, halt, ... about:
ongoing computations (high load, high disk io)
open bash / zsh / ... terminal sessions
other logged in users
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sss_useradd vs useradd with SSSD
I am currently using sssd to authenticate users to active directory. However, I still need to be able to add local users. I noticed SSSD has a local provider and also as a tool to add local users to ...
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Unable to confirm timezone while setting crontab for different unix users
On our production server, UCT timezone has been set for server i.e. for root user but for local technical user different timezone is set in .base_profile.
I want to set cron as per CET but server ...
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Retrieving Active Directory Users with no Email address [closed]
There are 1000+ users in AD. Some random users accounts (approx. 400) are created without Email address. Now I need to retrieve all those users in an Excel file who are there without Email Address. ...
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ftp client multi user
I cannot find anything on point so here goes. We need to ftp a single file three times a day. Different users need to be able to share the client.
I tried WinSCP but it seems to store the ...
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How do we handle sysadmin tasks in a non-traditional (academic/research-oriented) workplace?
Disclaimer: I'm struggling to figure out where this question fits -- it could be here, Workplace SE, or Academia SE -- so I'm happy to move it if necessary.
I work in a research group at a large ...
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User-specific SFTP Tunnels
Basically, I have a couple differant Centos7 LAMP stacks running on differant virtual machines (on xenserver) & openSSH. I also have a couple intermediate proxy authentication servers running (...
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User GPO not showing in gpresult
I have a GPO that maps a drive for users. I have tested it and it works for a newly created test user.
Settings are: User Configurations > Pref > Windows Settings > Drive Maps : SETTINGS
The issue: ...
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How to kick users from Windows Server 2012 R2
I need to migrate some databases from one server to another to decommission the first one. This server is sharing a network share and a database. Prior to migration and to ensure data integrity, I ...
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Prevent users from installing softwares on workstation irrespective of rights [closed]
I am trying to apply below scenario, could you please help me out.
In my environment all users are having administrative right on their respective workstation, i am trying to prevent them from ...
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Disable accounts on AD automatically
here is a question that I couldn't find online.
Is there a way to disable accounts on AD automatically after a certain amount of time?
I know that you can just put an expiration date and the user ...
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Determine which workstations a user has logged on to previously
I would like to find a way to determine what workstations or servers a user account has logged into.
Is there a script that can scan a DC for this info?
Alternately, any PC a user has logged onto ...
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Unable to retrieve users from AD on VMWare vcenter
I have added the AD successfully from the vcenter console and also configured the Single Sign On.
When I try to retrieve the users from the AD, I first set the domain in the Users and Groups tab, ...
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How can i limit a user to use no more ram than 1gb in window 2012 r2 server?
is it possible to to limit a user ram?
No more ram than 1gb in window 2012 r2 server?
One of of my user is using about 3GB ram
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User Group folder access 2012 essentials
I am setting up a 2012 r2 essentials box and have a user group setup with access to certain folders. When I view a user in that group it shows the folder access as nothing.
Is this just a default ...
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Cannot SSH After Adding Another User to Group of SSH Target User
I'm trying to make a web interface for a game server.
I have a user/group "gameserver" that has game files and configurations (not a sudoer).
And a user/group "www-data" that you all know is for web ...
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web program today: why is online web program user =/= Unix user in /etc/passwd [closed]
History and explanation
In the early days of Unix,
... as Unix was invented as a network and multi-user operating system; you could deploy web server programs on Unix where the online user in the ...
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Centos setting password for user, but still can't log in on it
I've got a problem, where even though i set a password and try to log in with it, it doesn't work.
I created a new user called test with password test. When i try to log in i get "access denied".
I ...
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Basic Auth User Management
I have 2 questions regarding Apache Basic Auth that i currently am utilising. I have a website that after a certain action, the website will produce a Basic Auth username and password for the user to ...
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How to use siege to test Magento with user login?
I have a Magento site running on CentOS 6 (Amazon EC2). I've installed Varnish cache and a FPC extension called PageCache to make Varnish work with Magento.
When I am not logged in, I check the ...
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Correctly setting user permissions via SSH
I'm getting stuck with user permissions on a LAMP stack (using Digital Ocean if it matters). Here's my setup.
User dev has the following groups:
dev www-data
The /var/www folder has been set so ...
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Easy way to get all user accounts
I am in the process of migrating to a new server and I am having a number of issues due to user accounts not being present (for example nginx seems to be running under nginx user on the new system www-...
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Importing Bulk Users from .csv file leads to user logon name and domain being blank
I have the following issue when adding bulk users through a .csv file: the user logon name and the domain are blank, however the user logon name (Pre windows 2003) is showing ok. Because of this, I am ...
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Batch import local user in Windows Server 2012 R2 with a CSV file
I've got a Windows Server 2012 r2 without domain and active users.
No Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) are installed and no Csvde command.
Is there a way to import users from a csv file ?
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How to block a users name from getting mail using postfix
I have a setup where I use /etc/aliases to define several email addresses for a user, e.g.:
foo: user
bar: user
foo.bar: user
However I want to block the users name ([email protected]) from ...
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User write to C from CMD
I have a very strange problem. On some computers in my network I can go to C:\ directory, run edit program and save file to C:. But when I list files in directory this file is not listed. But when I ...
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MySQL Log to show users
I have a MySQL server running with about 50 users. I am looking for a way to tell which users are still actively accessing the server, which accounts are used.
I already thought about grep-ping ...
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Debian: How to lock root account AND still use cron. (cron does not work while locked account :( )
I'm setting up a small private server which is connected to internet. For security reasons I would like to lock my root account after setting everything up and then use a sudo user for further ...
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PowerShell: How to get local users and local groups, but exclude disabled accounts
I got a PowerShell command that gives me a list of users and the groups those users are members of. The only problem is that is gives me every user including those that are disabled. I need to be ...
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How to get the time and date at which a user account is locked/unlocked in unix?
I need to get the exact time and date at which a user account was locked or unlocked in Linux.
passwd -S command can give the status of an account i.e., if its locked or unlocked.
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Set CPU affinity for all processes of specific user with taskset
I have ubuntu server 14.04, and I'm wondering if there is any easy way to achieve this task.
For example, I can already do this for single processes with taskset -pac 2 29435, but is there any way to ...
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Why didn't Windows create a User_Data folder for a new profile? [closed]
Normally the User_Data folder is created automatically when the new user logs into their profile. Where/how can I check what's preventing this?
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ansible user variable overwritten by local machine user
so I am getting ansible setup and have a host configuration successfully setup via my ansible_hosts file:
104.236.59.171 ansible_connection=ssh ansible_user=root
checking the configuration status ...
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Can't add built-in Remote Desktop Users group on DC to Remote Desktop Users on 2012 server
I have new 2012 servers and so far its only set to allow administrator to remote in.
In Computer Management/Remote Desktop Users, the only member is administrator.
When I try to add the built-in ...
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How do I add new users so the drives are mapped upon login?
In an existing Windows Server 2008 domain the users added by professional IT administrators automatically mapped drives when they logged onto any office machine.
The new users I've added, however, ...
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userdel still keeps users in /etc/passwd?
I made a shell script that deletes an unix user and among other things, here the command used to delete the user :
pkill -9 -u `id -u {USERNAME}` > /dev/null 2>&1
userdel -f -r {USERNAME} &...
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Prompt for credentials when accessing administrative share over network
I have an administrative share on a server called install$ (\server\install$). This share should be accessable only for administrators and helpdesk users since it contains installers from different ...
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New-AdUser : The specified account already exists
I am trying to import some AD Users using a powershell script and a file.csv but I am getting this error:
New-AdUser : The specified account already exists
Here is the script:
Import-Module ...
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top is only showing current user processes
Recently got a dedicated server running CentOS 6.7, we have ran updates and noticed that top is only showing processes for the current user.
[myuser@server2 ~]$ top -b -n1
top - 20:19:20 up 1 day, ...
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