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.
Questions tagged [user-accounts]
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I need to create a group a group of pseudo admins in AD to manage users at a remote location, but I'm not sure how this should be done
My company is migrating/consolidating domains with several remote business we have purchased, and one of our remotes sites has a pre-existing IT department that we want to keep in place. We would like to give the pre-existing department access to…
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How do I share all resources between two AWS Root accounts?
We have one person that has been in charge of all AWS resources for our company, including EC2, elastic IPs, EBS storage, etc. Now we want a second person to also have access to ALL the resources in the first persons account.
So far we…
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i can rdp windows server 2016 dc but i can't access server manager or users and computers of active directory
i am a beginer in windows server administration, i am curently working on lab about active directory, so i set up a windows server 2016 DC in whitch i created two OU, in those OUs i created a multiple users,
i want to delegate controle of those OUs…
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Can I add a Microsoft Account to my Windows Server Core? (WITHOUT domain nor domain controller)
Can I use Microsoft accounts in my Windows Server Core virtual machines as we can do with Windows 10 without domain controller role or additional magic?
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Special user account for logon script only
How can I create a user account which can logon to a domain and only be able to let the logon script run (netlogon) and then log out automatically? This user needs to be as restricted as possible.
What are the possibilities?
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User is not in passwd list
Some user forgot his password and I want to restore it being root. For that I use, in su :
#passwd
passwd: user '' does not exist
I know the user is there because trying via ssh I am asked for the password. Either the user is not in…
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How do I provide a public key to a new user without granting them root access?
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 would let them do the same.
How do I provide the…
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Setting a password hint on administrator account in Windows Server 2008 R2
I've tried to change a password on administrator account using Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\User Accounts\Change Your Password but can't set a password hint. When I clicked What is a password hint I could read
"Because your computer is on…
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dscl command failing to create user - mac
I am a mac user I created a user from the terminal using dscl (I am more familiar to linux and adduser command)
It seemed to work but I can't find my newly created user under /Users, and the command sudo su $newuser is not recognized by the…
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setting up sudo account
I want to create a managed account with root powers and the ability to su as root if need be to manage the box without needing root. What is the correct way to do it?
Does this work?
/usr/sbin/adduser -u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0,1,2,3,4,6,10 -M admin
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what is the default username / password of telnet?
I have installed Telnet server on my CentOs Server.
and set disable = noa in xinted.d folder and reset xinted.
so telnet is started.
When I telnet to server,it will get login and password but I can't login into it by any username or password.
I…
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Semi-selfservice user registration
I don't want to have wide-open registration on my server so I don't have to deal with spam accounts, but at the same time I don't want to have to manually add accounts for each person I invite to my ejabberd server. Is there a way to have one-time…
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"Wscript.echo" in place of Report.txt in VBS?
This script gets remote user's membership info and saves a report.txt as a result. Can this code be changed with wscript.echo in place of Report.txt. I tried to change it but i couldnt :( Thank you in advance
strUsers = InputBox("Enter Username:…
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User with "root" privileges can't actually see all folders
There is this problem with my newly created user with "root" privilages in my web server Ubuntu LTS 12.04 .
I follow the rule:
adduser newuser
usermod -a -G sudo newuser
then I add in visudo
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL)…
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adduser with -s, what is -s
Can someone tell me the difference between these 3 versions, specifically what is -s and what's the difference between the 2nd and 3rd versions?
useradd -g vmail -u 5000 vmail -d /var/vmail -m
useradd -g vmail -u 5000 vmail -d /var/vmail -m -s…
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