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Questions tagged [user-accounts]

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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Why does my console session keep locking out account?

It's difficult to phrase this question properly. I have a number of accounts that I want the session to be kept alive .i.e. Not lock out after 15 mins. Domain accounts, logging on to Server 2012r2. I have tried the "Console lock display off…
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Users locked out from DC, automatically unlocked by administrator

I am working on a typical windows architecture containing DCs, Exchange servers, etc... Recently I set up a script to receive a notification whenever a user get locked out. It works prefectly, however I noticed something very odd. I report several…
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Moving an AD user account from one domain to another within same forest

Requirement: In our organisation, several employees have frequent transfers to different zones, which are different domains within a single forest. Need to transfer users from one domain to another domain using some free of cost solution. My…
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Administrator account keeps getting locked out. Can't trace source

The Administrator account keeps getting locked out. The Event logs and Netlogon logs confirm that the account is getting locked out, but the source computer name isn't provided (it is blank). See screenshots below are from the Event log and…
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Fully fleshing out a local user account added via command line

I am working at a customer site commissioning a bunch of Windows 7 systems that were just delivered. The systems were imaged with a basic setup that included all of the main software needed for the customer except for a local (non admin) account…
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Basic Auth User Management

I have 2 questions regarding Apache Basic Auth that i currently am utilising. I have a website that after a certain action, the website will produce a Basic Auth username and password for the user to use to access a service. This is working OK at…
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AD Server 2012 - Make an admin account that can only add new users

I have been looking all over the web trying to find an answer but no luck. Does anybody know, if it's possible, how to make an admin account, that ONLY have access to add in new users to the Active Directory?? The account does not need to have a…
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How do I modify, disable, or delete a task with stored credentials after a Server Name Change?

I have a task that's been running regularly every 30 minutes for several months. It's got stored credentials for my account, listed as MACHINE_NAME\USER. After the creation of this task, we decided to rename this server, so now my credentials are…
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Authenticate domain user to a domain computer when the computer is not connected to the network?

Our organization sends people to remote locations for periods of 45-90 days. The users at these locations need to use client software on a domain computer in order to do there job. Recently we had an issue where we had to replace a user at the…
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Is it possible to sync Google Apps for Business accounts to an Active Directory server?

I'm familiar with "Google Apps Directory Sync" and "Google Apps Password Sync", but both only work one way - with the Active Directory being the authoritative source and the Google Apps consumes existing accounts. My organization is heavily…
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How to setup user accounts on a secondary server in High Availability?

Working with two Microsoft SQL 2012 servers in Always On High Availability configuration running on Windows Server 2012 R2. Setup works well and failover is almost flawless. However, the software that connects to database (or high availability…
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Default user for MySQL

With a fresh (but old) install of Ubuntu and MySQL, I found I could access the MySQL via command line client without being asked for any user or password. Logging in as root requires the root password. But logging in without specifying the user (ie,…
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Securing MySQL debian-sys-maint

With a fresh (but old) install of Ubuntu and MySQL, I found I could access the MySQL via command line client without being asked for any user or password. This bothered me as the default situation, and I tried to investigate it. Logging in as root…
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Exim, hot to route local mail to other adress

I have setuped an Exim4 server on my debian wheezy server. This mail server only sends mail coming from localhost. The purpose is sending mail for my website. I have cron tasks and other services generating mails for root user. These mails are not…
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On Solaris, can I create a user account in a single command line entry that is not disabled, but is password disabled (only allows SSH)

I am building a script for SA's to follow when performing a certain task. That task requires adding a user to a system that can only SSH to the system (using a key) and not log in with a password. What I want to do is have the SA execute the adduser…
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