Questions tagged [users]
Humans using a system. They try to break everything. Always handle with caution. Expect the unexpected.
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List user's folder access permissions
I have a user in a domain who has access to multiple subfolders in multiple folders. His rights were defined pretty granularly. Now he's leaving the company but will continue to work for a firm as a ...
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Where can I find data stored by a Windows Service running as "Local System Account"?
I'm using a service which stores data on disk.
The service is running as "local system account".
Where is the stored data for that system user?
I'm thinking about C:\Documents and Settings\Default ...
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What should I do about a "misbehaving" user?
What should I do about this user? The user is:
Downloading pornography
Attempting unauthorized access
Running hacking software
Sending unsolicited email
Installing software / tampering with the ...
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How to check who is currently logged on to windows workstation from command line?
Environment is in domain, server is Windows Server 2003, workstations have Vista and XP installed.
I need the way to check remotely who is currently logged on workstation, preferably from some simple ...
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Maximum number of users on Linux
What is the maximum number of users accounts I can have on Linux?
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How can I limit the login times in linux for certain users?
How can I limit the login times in linux for certain users? For example I have to a user that only needs to be enabled from 8am till 5pm? Is there a way of automating this. My environment is a Centos ...
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How to know what user belongs to what ip on debian
is there a way to get an overview of users logged in on my server and the ip they are connecting from ?
I have the IP already, I want the user that is associated with it :)
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How to map authenticated Apache users to their own directory?
I am trying to offer our users an Apache WebDav space where they can store their calendar (.ics) files. I've got Dav and LDAP authentication running already. But I fail to jail users to some sub-...
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SSH public key authentication - can one public key be used for multiple users?
I am wanting to deploy a RHEL5 server using Kickstarts and for security I only want to allow remote clients to ssh to the server as the user 'Developer' (I have already configured the sshd config to ...
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User can't log in after I manually set MD5 hash
I'm using Puppet to manage user passwords. (Yes, I know LDAP is better, but I've been told from the higher-ups to use Puppet.) I have this class that, when run as root, changes bob's password to "...
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Unable to change user in security context of symlink
I have created a few symbolic links to replace some broken links in /etc/pam.d. The original links have system_u as the user. The newly created ones somehow have unconfined_u as the user. I am not ...
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set up single directory ftp access for customer on Ubuntu
I have a user who like to use the our Bitnami AWS ec2 instance to store podcasts. Up to this point they have been using http://www.lemonzdream.com/podcastmaker/ with MobileMe. Now that MM is dead, ...
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Setting up individually accessible public_html for each user of a linux machine
I have a dedicated server on which I have a site http://www.example.com
I need to create a user and:
allow him ssh and ftp access into it
allow him to access a page such as: http://user.example.com
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Windows Remote User Managment
I have a server PC and several client PCs, each running Windows 7 Home.
I would like to create a user on the server PC and have that user then available on all client PCs. User1 should be able to ...
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How do I share a Git repository with multiple users on a machine?
I have a Git repository on a staging server which multiple developers need to be able to pull to. git-init seems to have a flag very close to what I'm looking for: --shared, except I'd like multiple ...
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Unable to remove user: "user is currently logged in"
When trying to remove the user, it returns "user is currently logged in".
I already killed the user using pkill -KILL -u usernameHere and several other commands, but it does not help.
How can I ...
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What User Should NGinx and PHP be running as?
Permissions are something that have confused for me a while with Linux. So at the minute both my NGinx and PHP-FPM instances are running with the user and group :
www-data
Is this standard? I run ...
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How do I find all files and directories writable by a specific user?
Under Linux, how can I find all the files and directories that are writable (or, actually, not writable) by a particular user?
Edit: To clarify, I meant under a particular subdir, not systemwide. ...
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How do I change the default location for a users home directory in Vista?
I would like to move the default location of my c:\Users\USERNAME to another drive. What is the easiest way to do this and how?
I know that I can move each of my "Special Folders" like Documents, ...
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FTP doesn't allow /usr/sbin/nologin user
I want to setup a ftp for couple of ftp-only users with vsftpd. I configured the FTP to enable local user access. It works fine. But once I edit the users' shell to /usr/sbin/nologin, it couldn't log ...
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Allow scp/ssh for www-data user
I am on Amazon EC2 using Ubuntu 10.04.2
My web folder is owned by www-data so I want to be able to log into my server as www-data for ssh and scp.
Thanks!
Adding the line to my /etc/ssh/sshd_config ...
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Puppet: how to create and manage unix users and groups
This last week I spent all effort into learning Puppet. Now I suffer from a mental buffer overflow and little confidence of ever being able to tame this beast. I came across many annotated examples ...
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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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How can i create a user with password in EC2 instance?
I have an EC2 instance on which i have set up a Git server. Now to access this server from eclipse plugin outside, i need a username/password for an instance user.
All i can see is that i have user ...
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Are there internet users connecting with HTTP/1.0?
Are there internet users connecting with HTTP/1.0? Such as over a proxy. Because I'm going to block HTTP/1.0 since most of the bots are using HTTP/1.0.
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Can't login to Cygwin sshd server with a non-administrator user account
I'm having some difficulties logging in to my Windows 2008 server (a DC) running Cygwin sshd. I can log in fine with an account that is a member of the Domain Admins group, but when I try with a ...
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Powershell assistance for Active Directory Cleanup
I just started a contract to clean up an Active Directory system for a large company. I was told it would be quite the busy work but after reviewing the system and seeing how disorganized and messy it ...
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List users in all specified unix groups
Is there an easy way to get a list of users who are in all specified groups?
For example, if I have the following users:
fred - rainbow, dell
jane - hp
zippy - rainbow, hp, dell
george - hp, dell
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Windows: change own password of standard user by using commandline
I want to change the password of the current logged in Windows user (no Active Directory) in a scriptable way. The users have the right to change their own passwords and already can change the ...
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Tracking local user accounts for security audit
I would like to compile a list of local users accounts from all servers on the network. This would include domain and non domain W2K3 machines. A script to run net user and pipe the results to a file? ...
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User account for running websites on linux
I have seen many blogs and articles recommend me that do not run the website on Linux under root user.
Should I create different account for running website? How about backends like MySql like ...
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Limit which ports a user can bind
I'm working on a setup for a Linux based system in which user applications are executed in Linux Containers to provide confinement and limited capabilities. Each application is launched under in a ...
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placeholder for later username in /etc/skel
Is there any possibility to use a placeholder in the config files located in /etc/skel that is replaced by the username later?
e.g. I place ":USER:" in one config file and create a new user with the ...
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Default user for MySQL [duplicate]
With a fresh (but old) install of Ubuntu and MySQL, I found I could access the MySQL via command line client without being asked for any user or password.
Logging in as root requires the root ...
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Organising users in a Windows Server 2008 domain
I am planning to create a Windows Server 2008-based domain for 70 computers and 50+ users, which will be distributed across two different buildings, which are connected by a dedicated 100 Mbps line. I ...
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How many users can be in a AD LDS group?
Microsoft published the recommended maximum limits for users in an Active Directory group. It basically says :
Starting with Windows Server 2003, the ability to replicate discrete changes to linked ...
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Active Directory Default Domain User permissions?
If I create a new AD domain user account. Does it, by default, have access to locally log on to any machine in the domain and read/write to its hard drive?
What are the default permissions for a new ...
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Giving user exact amount of MySQL databases
If I wanted to grant user 'abc' to create exact amount of databases ( for example 10 ) how would I do this ? Or anything similar maybe?
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Linux users traffic measurement
I want to measure traffic(upload) made by each user on a linux system.
Each users runs a rTorrent instance on a specified port. Also users could make traffic through the ftp server (vsftpd).
Is ...
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Jail users in a directory
I have a vps running debian OS and would like to create user accounts on it.
I want it so that when the user logs in with sftp, everything in var appears to be their home directory and they cannot cd ...
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postfix/dovecot filter who can send mail on behalf of
I am using postfix + dovecot(imap+pop3) + mysql
I whant to explicity define users or groups that can send email on behalf of others
I was thinking doing this way:
for all local(mysql) authenticated ...
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Unable to login with Local account (user) after joining onto domain
I am trying to login with local pc account with user level access but denied saying "you cannot log on because the logon methods you are using is not allowed on this computer".
But when I am adding ...