A user account is an access authorization to a restricted IT system. It consists mostly of a system wide unique user name an a password which are needed for authentication. IT systems use the user account to identify the individual user and grant him permissions which are associated with the user account.
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Mac OS X Server mobile account VS Time Machine Network Backup
I am installing a Server @home to manage the mac client's of my family. First I wanted to make time machine Backups over the internal network to an external Hard-drive which is connected to my Mac OS X Server (10.6) but when I read about the mobile…
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Mass/bulk create user account in Active Directory with Exchange mailboxes
Every couple of months we have to create 30+ accounts so I was wondering what's the best way to bulk-create the accounts and their mailboxes.
We have AD on 2003 and Exchange 2007.
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Moving to an outsourced Exchange provider - turning Exchange off and updating user accounts
we used to have Exchange on the SBS 2003 server inside our AD environment. Earlier this year we moved to outside Exchange provider but for the time being our local Exchange was still up&running and forwarding email to the new email accounts.
Now the…
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Windows Server Local Account Migration from 2003 to 2008
We have a windows 2003 server with around 2000+ local accounts on it. Most of these accounts are used simply to authenticate a user accessing a web application on the server (basic authentication in IIS). They do not use desktop logins.
We are now…
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How to I Document User Rights on an existing Linux System?
Need to document user rights on an existing Linux system.
What commands, actions, etc. will allow me to gather complete user profiles?
User rights include, but are not limited to:
File/Directory: Read, Write, Execute and Delete
Access: Root, su,…
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Is it better so use numeric or name for user logins?
Is it better to have user logins based on a unique number or the users name.
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Numeric: sc12345
Based on name: simon.cropp, scropp or simoncropp
Some context.
Windows environment
MS Active Directory
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Active Directory Username Formats
I'm working on an open source project that will manage active directory users. I am looking for feedback from Windows/Active Directory Admins on the formats of usernames they prefer or their organization uses. I want to make sure the software…
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Why doesn't my Administrator account have access privileges?
We are running windows server 2003.I log in as Administrator but I don't have any access rights. I tried to create a new Administrator account but when logging into that one I still face the same issue.
Is there a problem with the Group…
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How to migrate a user from OS X 10.4 to OS X Server 10.6?
What is the best/safest way to migrate the data of a 10.4 OS X user to a 10.6 OS X Server? This user is a local user (no Open Directory, etc.) on both machines. They are connected through a local network.
Ideally, the following would be…
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How to manage a user account on SLES that does, and does not, exist?
My team (software devs) has a VM we use for testing. We agreed to self-admin the server in order to have root access. Despite us being devs and not admins, it's worked really well for us, but today I ran into an oddity I've never seen before. I…
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User profiles are getting corrupted, and the GPO to delete User Profiles is not working as intended
I am working in a school were laptops are shared between students, and up to 60 kids can use the same laptop in a week's time. The first time we encountered any problems with this was when one class in particular came in with two students receiving…
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Adding users from DC to remote desktop users
How to add a user from DC to allowed remote desktop users for certain PC?
It lets me choose only users on local machine, although I am connected with a user defined in DC server. A domain user. Even if I try pressing advanced, same thing. Adding…
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Apache Authentication - Find out user password
My field of expertise is far away from server management but I am currently covering for a former collegue of mine, so I apologize in advance if my question doesn't make sense.
I have to restart an Apache server running on Debian. However, I do not…
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cant' delete user with userid 502, 503 and on CentOS 6
I have a CentOS VM that shows the list of users like this:
drwx------. 2 504 504 4096 Dec 10 2000 username
So if I try to run the userdeel command I got a message saying that the user does not exist.
How can I make sure this user does not exist…
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How to get name of BUILTIN\Users & BUILTIN\Power Users
Is there a universal way to get the principals BUILTIN\Users or BUILTIN\Power Users (specifically retrieve the name)
The obvious answer would be that I already have the names! However, they are called different things in different languages, so I'd…
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