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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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How can I determine who (or what) has blocked access to a centos user account?

CentOS 5.x A user account on my CenTOS server has become inaccessible and I'm not sure why. If I run chage -l foo I see: Minimum: 0 Maximum: 0 Warning: 5 Inactive -1 Last Change: July 17, 2012 Password Expires: …
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Scalable way to add users in Postfix without creating new unix/linux accounts?

What is the most scalable way to add new users in postfix? I don't necessarily want to create a new user in /etc/shadow just for email. I know I can use aliases but this does not solve the issue of creating an entirely new user that has email.
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User creation on Linux Redhat

Is there anyway one can determine when a user was created on Linux? I know of a couple of things one can do,but it's an unreliable way of doing it. The first option is checking when the home directory was created,running the command ls -ld…
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Common user accounts between linux machines

I have a base system with a few (currently two) VMs on top of it, all running Ubuntu Server. I have to keep adding my user account on each system when I bring a new one up, as well as giving it sudo access, etc. and there are things in the way such…
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Force specific usernames for Mercurial commits

We're switching from Subversion to Mercurial in our corporate environment. There will be a central repository that is accessible via HTTPS with basic HTTP authentication. Now I'm curious whether it's possible to force specific usernames for commits?…
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How to secure Outlook Web Access against Brute Force attack?

I'd like to secure Outlook Web Access with Exchange 2010 against a brute force attack using account lockout. What is the best way to do this? I have the following group policy: Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Account…
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Change ownership of directory and all contents to a new user from root

I created a website under /var/www/html/ all under root, all images, files, .htacess, directories, etc... I uploaded and configured everything as root. I want to make it it's own username/password so it's not owned by root. I currently do not have…
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Two users using the same same user profile while not in a domain

I have a windows server 2003 acting as a terminal server, this computer is not a member of any domain. We demo our product on the server by creating a user account. The person logs in uses the demo for a few weeks and when they are done we delete…
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Can I use Active Directory for user-level security in an Access application? Pretty Please?

My company makes fairly extensive use of an Access + MySQL application that would probably see some significant traffic on the Daily WTF if I posted the source code. The management of users and their permissions is getting out of hand, and I seem…
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Changing Windows Domain UserName

i have a small network thats managed by a windows server 2003 box with active directory and microsoft exchange. I want to rename my username but want to know if anything is going to be affected by it. Specially. do i have to make any changes to…
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SELinux stops pam_oddjob_mkhomedir from re-creating home dirs after deletion

I have a RedHat 7 server which is hooked up to LDAP and is supposed to create home folders automatically. In line with RedHat recommendation I use pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so. Everything works fine if the user never logged in to the system. The problem…
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Samba user login

some help needed. I have/manage a samba share at work. It works fine for everyone except one user. I've tried all I can think now, so now I hope for some new input. $smbclient --list LOCALHOST as my user works fine. $smbclient --list LOCALHOST…
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Windows domain account, expired vs. disabled status

I know that expiration feature in a Windows domain environment for user accounts is useful for automation processes. But I'd like to know if a disabled account is the same than an expired account in terms of accesibility to the domain. In the other…
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Can I prepare a domain user account without the user's password

We have a 2012R2 domain and have configured many GPO settings for our users based on the team they are working for. In the near future, we will replace our existing laptops with new ones and move to Windows 8.1 Enterprise. Our problem is that…
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Account Lockout with pam_faillock in RHEL6

Previously, I asked about using pam_tally2 under RHEL6. I would like to pose this question and answer to document the recommended use of pam_faillock over pam_tally2 for the same function; What is the recommended strategy for temporary account…
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