Questions tagged [users]
Humans using a system. They try to break everything. Always handle with caution. Expect the unexpected.
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Find out if password expired or when it expires for user in a specific OU
Is there any powershell command that outputs the users that have their passwords expired from a specific organizational unit (OU).
If so can it be combined in a script with another command that ...
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Make usergroups able to authorize User Account Control Prompt
I was wondering how you could make a group in Active Directory that is allowed to elevate/authorize programs with their credentials without setting them as the built in administrator?
Windows server ...
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CentOS root+nologin [closed]
Can I somehow get access to root account after changing /etc/passwd file?
Similar problems:
Lost root access possibility /sbin/nologin
How do I regain access to root after accidental chsh command ...
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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 ...
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AD log message showing E-mail of user object creation
I am referencing the active directory log message (4720) which shows 'User Principal Name' as an email address.
However there is another email address found when viewing the actual User Object '...
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Did I give access to my user folder by mistake?[Windows 7]
I shared a folder from my user in Windows 7.
I want to understand if this led to sharing the whole user folder.
This is the description of the issue:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...
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Permissions, owner, group inheritance? [duplicate]
I don't understand restrictions in terms of directories nesting. For example, /var/www/folder/index.html directories. What permissions, owner, group should every directory and file have? Is there such ...
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Hiding the active Administrator account in Windows 8
I am trying to use the integrated "Administrator" account in Windows 8. The problem is that I do not want this account to appear on the Welcome Screen for login. I tried to hide the account by using ...
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Changing Password in Exchange Server only [closed]
I created 1 user in AD and created mail box in exchange 2010 server. We implemented password policy for changing password in 45 days.
I was having crunch on licenses so, I deleted AD user and did not ...
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Local User Account Disappeared After Domain Upgrade
I upgraded to server 2012 r2 from 2008 r2
I have all computers in AD
The workstations with local logons are losing the local user that i have set up on them... (the admin logon is not disappearing)
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give permission to Active directory user to enable/disable a device
In my network, one of users uses DOS application and he need the permission to enable and disable his graphic card using devcon command . this user is Active directory user . how can i give him a ...
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Mysql, Sequel Pro: access denied, but connecting with terminal is OK
I created a user 'vasya'@'%' with all priveleges on some dbs on a remote server.
When I ssh to the server I can mysql -u vasya -p without any problems.
However when I try to ssh tunnel via Sequel Pro ...
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Filter getent passwd output with SSSD
I am using ldap_access_filter in sssd.conf in order to limit access to users that are in a specific ldap group. However, when I do a "getent passwd" I still get a full list of the ldap users.
How can ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 "azureuser" exists - and I did not create it
I just logged into an Ubuntu 14.04 instance and in the home folder there is a user "azureuser" (yes, this is an Azure VM) with four items in it:
.ssh (folder)
.bash_logout (file)
.bashrc (file)
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LDAP authentication fails
I try to set up an LDAP directory that will allow me to authenticate Debian users. Once the configuration of the LDAP server and PAM files is done, the authentication fails. I think the client doesn't ...
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Usermod -aG vs gpasswd -a as a best practice
I am aware that usermod -g is not best practice from many posts like this however they normally explain the usermod should not be used as it changes the primary group of a user. These posts don't seem ...
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Active Directory Users Delegated Permissions
This is probably a dumb question, but how does the delegated user access ad to make these changes? I have set this up but a user cannot launch the active directory users and groups tool. Only admins ...
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How do I provide a public key to a new user without granting them root access? [closed]
I have a linux server and have created a new user with useradd. However, for that user to log in, they need an public key. I have my own public key, but it lets me log in as root, so I assume it ...
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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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Migrate local user to LDAP server and keep the old user directory
I have an existing Debian server with a lot of local user (these user account are used for application authentication and keeps files in each home directory), and I want to migrate all the local user ...
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Spamassassin cannot write files to disk
I am running spamassassin on Ubuntu 14.04 as root. When I am calling any of the methods, such as Check or ReportSpam, I am also passing in another user that the check should be run as. However I get a ...
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Restrict the user to access one folder only and deny all other folder in D: drive [closed]
I am running windows server 2008.
I have a user to which I need to set permission so that he can access only one particular folder and deny access to all other folder.How can i set the permission.
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Suggestions required on how to allow users access to WiFi Captive Portals when roaming
I have written a script that will turn the proxy settings off and back on again after an allotted period but you often need to open up Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings and click OK for ...
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Active Directory Copy User and his password on another domain (and forest)
Is there a way (PowerShell would be nice) to copy a user (I need sAMAccountName) and his password, from one domainA (forestA) to domainB (forestB).
All Active Directory servers are on LAN and this is ...
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Can IIS handle a web application deployment under moderate user load?
It is my understanding that IIS should be able to handle a scenario, where I can xcopy updated web application files (.dll, .aspx, etc.) out to a running web server. IIS will detect that the files ...
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Dump users and group membership to file
I'm trying to get an oracle 6.2 system (same as redhat 6.2) to find all the users on the system, then take the username of each user discovered and query group membership of each user individually, ...
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Active Directory Export GPO user
I would like to get in .csv (or any other readable format) all my AD users and the policies that they need to comply (the type of authentication each user needs, his event logging properties and even ...
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Command shows different results when I login as a user vs su to the user
I'm trying to run a simple command from an init.d script and I'm troubleshooting why the command doesn't work when I run it from my init.d script but works when I run it as my user.
Can someone ...
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User in Administrators group has not the same rights as Administrator (Win 2012 R2)
I have created a user admin and putted this user in the Administrators Groups (local, there is no AD). But This admin user has not the same rights as the Administrator user itself.
Example 1: a file ...
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To create a scheduled task which can execute without user logged on --using vbscript
I need to execute a file on a remote machine without logging into the machine.
I created scheduled task for the same. PFB the code snippet
scheduled_task = "schtasks /Create /S <> /SC nologon /TN ...
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Correctly assigning permissions & groups
So my nginx is using www-data:www-data, and I want to deploy files to my server with Beanstalk through sftp properly.
So I've created an user called beanstalk and added him to www-data group.
$ id ...
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Show both Local and Domain accounts on Login Screen in Windows 8
Our employees use their laptops both as personal laptops and as work laptops. When they're at work they sign in to the domain and when they're at home they sign in to their laptop directly.
The ...
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Script to delete users profile only months old profile with the Registry itself but should leave current profile intact
first of all sry if this post is repetitive for the profile deletion.
If you have a correct link please post it below or the script itself.
Question: as i have a lot of computers with windows 7 (...
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Nginx can't serve more than 40 concurrent users
I'm testing my Nginx web server (configured with CentminMod) with https://www.blitz.io/ and the server returns timeouts when the connected users are about 40.
I can't understand why! It's Nginx, not ...
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How to use update-alternatives per user
Is there any way to use update-alternative "user wide" ? I mean that it would be great to set preferences per user.
Does Debian provide some tools for that?
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Allow power user to install software
I need to grant an user some admin rights, so he can enter his credentials when someone is prompted to install a software (and just that), he is no admin, I don't want him to have too much access.
My ...
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What's the best way to shutdown one Citrix XenApp 6.5 server in a farm with users connected?
I have a citrix farm with four application servers. The users base connections are spread out over the four for load balancing. I want to shut one down for maintenance. Can I go ahead and do that ...
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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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Apache Per-user web directories under user's own ID instead of www-data?
Talking about this feature
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/public_html.html
Is there a way (HOW?) to have Apache take on (setuid) the ID of each "~user", instead of doing everything under ...
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Including default files and folders in User's home directory
I'm using ubuntu server 14.04. I want to include some default files and folders in home directory for every user, whenever a new user account is created. How to make this. Can anyone help me in this. ...
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"No input file specified." (I am stupid and deleted a user) [closed]
So I had a server (running several sites) hacked recently and a low level user account was spinning up lots of processes (sending spam) that were crashing the server repeatedly. Out of frustration, I ...
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Migrate user and passwords to new linux box
I am trying to migrate old Centos 4.3 box to Centos 7.
I have followed the migration steps from an article published way long back on http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-move-migrate-user-accounts-old-...
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Check that a given user has a given privilege
Given a pair of a user and a privilege I need to determine if a user has the privilege on the server. The following is true in my setup:
The server is a part of a domain but not a domain controller
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Giving AD user accounts admin access on specific machines
Is there a way to give domain based accounts administrative access on specific machines and not others?
I can control access and rights to which machines a user can log in to and what their ...
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Need to get a list of all users within a subnet of servers
I am looking to write a batch or vbs script to gather all users
(local to the server. ie. administrators or a local account(not ad users))
on a collection of servers inside my network.
I assume I ...
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Do I need a User CAL for a record in AD if the user is not authenticating? [duplicate]
We are considering expanding our user provisioning to cover a large portion of the workforce that does not currently exist in AD. Our understanding is that any named user in AD requires a User CAL. ...
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Powershell - check if all users in a specific OU are disabled, disable if not
I tried to search for it but I didn't find anything. Could someone help me out with an example of a script that would do this?
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Count of Unix users: how many is too much? [closed]
I know about Postfix MTA configuration concepts: there's tree of them and the last one is most-appropriate only because it doesn't require new Unix user to be created for new mailbox creation.
From ...
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Exchange Full Access issue
I was just hired as a System Admin for a small company. They use Exchange 2010 for their Mail Server. I've never had a permission issue like this with Exchange because I worked for a larger firm with ...
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What's the best way to see logged in users in Windows Server 2012?
Right now I use a powershell script to see the currently logged in users. But I don't see if their session is idle, active or inactive. I can see when the session was started, that's it.
Is there an ...