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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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WINXP/AD GPO: Allow non-admin user to log off existing locked session

I'm looking to create a policy that would allow non-administrator users the ability to log off other non-administrators who have left and have a locked screen. I really don't want to give the users administrator access on the computers. Also, I'm…
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Best practices - Is it better to delete unused SQL accounts or just disabled them?

In an enterprise environment, is it better to delete limited access SQL accounts, or simply disable them?
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How to find all local user accounts in chef

Using opscode chef, is there a way to find or loop over all user accounts? I need to create a configuration file in each users home directory. I do not want to loop over any directory structure for this.
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Is there a standard behind the default system accounts in a linux system like fedora or debian?

By system accounts I mean the ones that comes preinstalled with the system, for example nobody, daemon and bin. I know these tend to vary depending to the distro and the installed packages, but: is there a standard set of system accounts? What are…
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Active Directory Account locks for no apparent reason

I've been troubleshooting this problem for two years and it keeps coming back. Our Mac users authenticate to our Active Directory server which is running Windows Server 2008 Standard. One of the Mac users in particular has had a recurring problem…
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How to find out where bad login attempt is coming from for a Domain Account (Windows 2008 Server R2)

I have an account that keeps getting locked out (a domain account). I can see when the last bad login occurred and the bad login count = 5. What I want to determine is the IP address of the machine that is responsible for the bad logins. How can I…
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map remote ssh user to a different local user

All my boxes have the same username for myself, except one legacy machine where I'm loath to try to change it. Whenever I ssh to the machine, I forget to specify my user name, and my password is rejected. This only takes maybe 30 seconds, but it…
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Good ways to disseminate login information, especially when new users are created?

When you create user logins in bulk, with set passwords as many users are unlikely to change their passwords, how do you disseminate the information? Students in our school division are automatically assigned a username and password after…
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Can I delete `mysql` os user which is created during mysql installation?

I have installed MySQL Community Server 5.7.28 on a CentOS 7. I have observed that there is an OS level user mysql created during installation. As per our security team, we can have only one operational user on a server. I have checked that the…
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Remove Access of object or user from directory using PS

We have several servers in the same domain and the requirement is to remove permission from a specific folder which is defined in the power-shell script and I need to specify the name of the object that Im going to delete and list of the servers…
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Ansible user module fails when group parameter matches name parameter (e.g. creating user & group name)

Trying to create an Ansible playbook to create a user (user module) on RH/Cent system (e.g. useradd). The playbook fails anytime I include the group parameter despite setting the group value to match the "name" parameter value for the new user. …
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What happens if you have user collisions between a Linux system and an LDAP server?

I have an (Open)LDAP Server running on a Debian system inside my LAN, and multiple systems running Linux Mint, configured as LDAP Clients. Here is the content of my /etc/nsswitch.conf: passwd: compat ldap group: compat ldap shadow: …
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Ubuntu 18 inserting leading space to username

We have an Ubuntu 18.04 client authenticating against a Samba 4 Active Directory. On this client (and this client only) when a specific user (and this user only) logs in via ssh, tty, or the GUI (at the terminal) his user name and path to his home…
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Setting a Windows Non-Interactive User Account

Does anybody know how I can, or if it's possible, to set a Windows domain account as a "non-interactive" user. I would like to set specific Windows domain service accounts as "non-interactive" so that they'll only be able to run the application…
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Parse-server/Heroku email account verification not working

I am trying to implement the email verification system on Parse-Server (/Heroku), when a user account is created; so that the user can confirm his/her account creation. Things are working well for those matters: I can create a working account. The…
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