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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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SSH login with no authentication

I have an account (root, if it makes a difference) set up without a password (passwd -d), which enables me to log in with no authentication through the console. SSH however insists on a password. How can I set up an SSH connection without…
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Testing Windows user accounts without actually logging into them?

We setup Windows users accounts with redirected profiles here at work, and in the past we have just logged in to the account to test them out. However, recently there has been a change in company policy that as the system administrator I am not…
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What can I do to fix missing start menu/desktop icons for a domain user?

I'm having a problem with one user account in my domain. The domain controller is Server 2008 R2, with Win7 clients. The user's password expired, so she went through the process of changing it. We have group policy set up to require a complex…
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Why would an interdomain trust account not require a password?

I am trying to understand why and interdomain trust account would have an account value of 2080 (INTERDOMAIN_TRUST_ACCOUNT – PASSWD_NOTREQD). During a routine audit, after we had recently set up a bidirectional trust with a sister company, one of…
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Account management tools supporting self-service registration and email verification?

I work in a university environment that has in the past offered services almost exclusively to university affiliates who already have "formal" accounts in central user database. We are increasingly offering services to outside collaborators (hosted…
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Support staff can reset some User passwords but not all?

In our environment we have two AD-accounts per person, one user level account and one admin level account. Our support-staff can only reset user level accounts, which is good but I can't figure out why. This is the ADUC permissions on top…
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Active Directory: Changing a name

I have a user with a typo'd name. For the sake of explanation, I'll say the username is lusername, first name Lindsay. Active Directory had the user initially named Lindsey Username, and I need it to be Lindsay Username. As you can tell this doesn't…
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Local username Windows 10 Azure AD Microsoft 365

Is it possible to change the local username (C:\Users\xxx) on a AAD joined Windows 10 computer? Long version: Setup & Info: Windows 10 Business, Azure AD joined computer. Cloud only with "Microsoft 365". Intune MDM. When a tenant user are logged…
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How can I lock out an account after a certain number of successful logins?

I have a remote-access VPN, which is authenticated against a RSA SecurID server, and also against Active Directory. For complicated internal policy reasons, someone has made a request that we are able to suspend access after a set number of logins…
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Delegating Control -- Windows Active Directory

Attempting to make a site administrator user account for an Active Directory Domain. Using the Active Directory Delegate Authority Wizard. a user account has been grated rights in a OU. However, when attempting use of the authority some of the…
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Using "Run as..." as limited user to modify network connection settings?

I'm running in a non-admin account on my development workstation, using "Run as..." for all things that need administrator privileges. Thankfully under XP even the control panel applets allow that. This doesn't seem to work however (or I simply…
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Ansible playbook, create a user with the option --disabled-login

I need create a user with the option --disabled-login with ansible's playbook. The command line is: sudo adduser --disabled-login git I'm searching on Ansible's documentation. And the option system is similar. The playbook task is: user: name=git…
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User account being frequently locked out

We are running in a Windows 2008 / Windows 7 environment. One on my users is being locked out of his Active Directory account on a daily basis. This occurs between 10 and 18 hours after each reset. This just started last week. I can see that the…
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How does Windows hide internal users?

I just recognized that Windows hides some special users, like for example the NT Authority\SYSTEM user or the users which are added after the installation of SQL Server (ReportServer$SQLEXPRESS, IIS_IURS, ...). I know that it is possible to execute…
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How to make sendmail to relay local mails?

I have www server called say mywebsite.com and mail serwer mymail.com. Mail for mywebsite.com is handled by mymail.com (mx record for mywebsite.com is mymail.com). Problem is that I want to send mails from my www server mywebsite.com to adress in…
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