Questions tagged [accounts]
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How do admins maintain user accounts across hundreds of linux servers?
Dealing with hundreds of RHEL servers, how can we maintain local root accounts and network user accounts? Is there an active directory type solution that manages these from a central location?
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Where's my tab completion and up-arrow behavior? (Ubuntu 10.04)
I'm new to Linux, trying Ubuntu 10.04, preconfigured by host.
When I log in (SSH) using the preconfigured account, the shell prompt is: user@hostname:~$
The up arrow scrolls through the list of ...
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How to disable an LDAP account?
The LDAP uses the posixAccount schema and related attributes and I wonder if there's a standardized way to disable an account. Re-enabling the account should obviously re-enable the former password.
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Run a script after I unlock my Windows session?
How do I run a script each time I unlock my Windows 7 session?
So, if I lock my session and then log in again, I want the script to run.
Do login scripts configured in the Group Policy do this or ...
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Change different domain account without being admin Windows
I have 2 accounts on a domain.
I can log into a citrix virtual desktop with the one account fine, but the other won't let me log into anything until I first change my password. I am remote, so I can'...
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what to do if i accidentally reset the computer account
I'm not the domain admin, but I thought I could handle a simple task, and apparently I thought wrong, how I need assistance.
A computer was locked and we needed to login to shutdown a program that ...
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Why is IIS_IUSRS used instead of IUSR for file permissions?
I was recently setting up a Drupal install on IIS7. The setup instructions required that the IIS_IUSRS account be given, temporarily, write access to the settings.php file so it could write the ...
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Account lock after a single authentication failure
I have 2 standalone servers (not in any domain/AD) - Windows 2003 and Windows 2008.
When connecting to shares on them, using the UNC path from Windows 2000 pro, or Samba (under linux), if I make a ...
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Creating Limited User Accounts on Ubuntu Server
Using Ubuntu server, I need to create some user accounts that have the following limitations:
(1) User may only view and manipulate files in their home directory.
(2) User may only execute commands ...
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Wordpress - Administering users on a blog
As a wordpress blog administrator, I create the user accounts.
What are the differences between these role types in wordpress?:
Subscriber
Administrator
Editor
Author
Contributor
I want to add ...
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LDAP Account Locked Out Sporadically after Password change - Finding the source of invalid attempts
On a small network of machines (<1000) we have a user whose account is being locked out after an indeterminate interval following a password change.
We are having severe difficulties finding the ...
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Windows 2008 R2 - What is the Attribute that defines the default user or group that can add the computer to a domain?
When you create a new computer object, you will define the CN, sAMAccountName and a user or group that can add the computer to a domain(can access) to that Computer Object using GUI Interface, this ...
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Is it possible to change an Azure organisational account administrator?
My (small) company has an Azure account we use for various projects. Does anyone know if it's possible to change the Account Administrator?
I've figured out how to add technical users as 'Co-...
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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? ...
Jeff
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Delete and Re-Add Disqus Site [closed]
I have a site that uses Disqus, and I've messed up the comments/discussions data beyond the point of recovery. I'd like to simply delete the site and start fresh. I know that all of my comments/...
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Lock Workstation Glitch? (AD/Windows XP)
I was playing with a lab setup recently (Windows 2003 R2 x32 SP2, Windows XP SP3, Active Directory) and noticed that if I locked the workstation, the following strange behaviour appeared:
I have a ...
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How can I give permissions to one account to create/modify/delete OU in Active Directory?
I have on account and I don't want to give it Administrator permissions, only to create OU, users, and groups. The trouble is that Accounts Operator can't create OU, how can I add a group for this ...
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How to reduce our AD account creation and maintenance requests and work load
Where I work, almost 40% of our support requests are for account management tasks :
Create new account and assign in groups
Unlock an account
Reset a password
Change an account's groups following a ...
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Best Practices for "temporary" accounts in a Windows server environment?
Are there any best practices for "temporary worker" accounts in a Windows server environment?
We have a couple of contractors joining the organization temporarily. They only need access to a few ...
Millman
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What's the difference between managing certificates for a user account and for a computer account?
We have some domain-joined computers that were unable to import a third party root cert as a trusted cert provider. In trying to fix this, I noticed that when we go to use the certificate management ...
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PostgreSQL User Permissions
I'm trying make a transition from MySQL to PostgreSQL, but find the user accounts/permissions system to be quite different.
With mysql, all accounts are handled internally by mysql. With postgres is ...
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Active Directory view last logged in computers
Is there a way to set a view up/add column for active directory on windows server 2003 under the computers section that tells me when they were last accessed. Just so it's easier when clearing up AD ...
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Linux: disabled user accounts: Is there a non-root shell command that can show if an account is disabled or not?
Is there a non-root shell command that can tell me if a user's account is disabled or not?
Please note that I make a distinction between LOCKING and DISABLED:
LOCKING is where you prepend ! or * or !...
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Web based remote administration of Windows user accounts? [closed]
We're looking for a simple web based admin tool to allow trusted users to create windows user accounts via a web based interface. It should also give regular users the ability to change their ...
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How to disable account lockout policy on server 2008?
We've played around with the account lockout policy but it did not turn out to be a great idea. We have one account that's being used by 100+ computers and every now and then it gets locked.
We weren'...
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AD account change not effective on sql server
When we have to change a user's last name lets say from jsmith to jjones, in our Win2000 active directory, we experience a bit of strange behavior with Sql Server 2008.
When jjones hits the server ...
Jim Little
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Transfer Active Directory account profile and settings to local account
I have seen plenty of questions about doing it the other way around, but my problem is this:
I have an Active Directory account that can't log in anymore, because the DC is down (and not going back ...
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Active Directory Domain User to be used to run Windows service
I have an Active Directory containing domain users for all employees that are used for computer login, file server permission, access control RDP, etc...
Also, I have more than one service that ...
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Missing local account after joining a domain
I attempted to add my computer to a domain and now I cannot access any of the local accounts on my computer.
I had downloaded Windows Server 2012 and had two local accounts on it. Then, I attempted ...
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Streamline Active Directory account creation via automated web site
In my company we have high employee turnover, and hence our helpdesk receives about a dozen requests per week for new Active Directory accounts. Currently, we receive these requests simply via e-mail ...
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How do I migrate, and rename a computer using ADMT command line?
I've checked all the ADMT documentation, experimented with negative results and am unable to get ADMT to rename a computer during a migration.
The command I'm using is:
C:\admt>admt computer /f:...
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Issues with Additional Accounts in Exchange and Outlook 2010
I have several users that need access to a common mailbox, lets call it [email protected]. Each of the users have an AD account in domain.com, and have their own Exchange mailboxes. After doing some ...
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How to give user root access without giving him root password
The scenario is this:
I have a development machine I want (need) to have root access to
Our admin setups the machines using his own credentials for the root user. The explanation being that if ...
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Lock down XP dns settings
All,
Developers usually need admin rights to the OS, so they can do their task.
How do I as an admin, lock in the DNS settings on windows , so they cannot be changed, only by me?
I am not an expert ...
jeremy
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How to set user account Name/Surname in postfix?
I created a user account in postfix in the form: [email protected].
When I receive emails from that account, in gmail, for example, the senders name is "editor", but I want to show something like "...
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Where is there a Linux log file that will provide information concerning deleted accounts?
A test server that I am working on has had two accounts deleted.
It won't be malicious - another department has probably deleted them thinking they are not needed. If I can find out who, we can ensure ...
JF
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MySQL security settings ignore accounts limits?
After several years of using MySQL, I've encountered some security issue that quite baffle me.
I create a new database, and a new user, then grant CRUD rights only to the new DB, to this user.
But ...
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Change certbot renewal configurations to another Let’s Encrypt-Account
Using certbot 1.26.0.
Due to moving some certificate configurations to another server and creating new ones, I now have got two accounts. That was not intended and I think I don't need two accounts.
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Accidentally deactivated Administrator account in Windows Server 2008 VM
I logged in to a Windows Server 2008 VirtualBox VM as Abbas (local, standard-user account), ran cmd.exe as Administrator and then deactivated the Administrator through:
net user administrator /active:...
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Account sharing among Ubuntu machines
I'd like a simple and secure system to have allow users in our network to have their account (e.g., 'myname') work on every machine in the network (e.g., such that they could ssh to any machine and ...
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Users can't send mail through smtp
I have my own mailserver, it used to be hosted by Hostgator but now I have a VPS.
From my home location I can send and receive mails as much as I want. It even works on my phone.
My other users also ...
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Start app on remote machine
I have a remote machine running windows 7. It has two users. It has the default user with no password which is used for home theater purposes. I have a separate login I use for remote desktop.
I ...
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Does Symantec Endpoint Protection create a AD user called "symantec"?
I found this Administrator user called "symantec" in my AD and i wanted to know if the recently installed SEP (Symantec Endpoint Protection) product created it? Does anyone know if SEP needs to create ...
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Windows Account Locking policy different while editing scheduled task
When I connect (through RDP) on my Windows 2008 R2 server and editing a task from the "Task Scheduler" if I enter a wrong password, the account is immediately locked.
This happens with Domain user ...
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Replication Issues in Active Directory - Computer Objects showing up in multiple OUs
There seems to be replication issues in the domain , but there is a strange occurrence. Some computer objects are moved to a different OU ; after a day when i searched for those computer objects in ...
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lastcomm command shows no results
I'm trying to monitor a user's activities on my Debian server.
I found, after Googling that the acct package should help me log all commands and let me filter them by user.
I installed the package, ...
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How can I aggregate account lockout events in Novell eDirectory?
I'm seeing an account become locked out pretty frequently and I wanted to pull an aggregated log together of all of the lockout events so I could get a better idea of what times it's occurring. ...
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SQL Server account per-table privileges
Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008, is it possible for a SQL Server account to be given privileges on a per-table basis within a database? For example, to have read access to all tables but write access ...
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Windows Server: Change AD account name
In my SBS 08 (AD, exchange), is it possible to change the name, email address of a user because he is leaving and I'd like to transfer all the account and credential to the new employee that is ...
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Adding new users
I have an FTP server that is running Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
the problem is I need to create new users and I have root access saved in WinSCP, so I can run useradd or adduser via the fake ...
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