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Questions tagged [user-management]

Practices and procedures aimed at performing bulk and/or fine-grained operations on user accounts, permissions, allocated resources.

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GCE deleted users folders reappear after reboot

on newly created gce instances I find a really messy /home/ folder, containing one home directory for every GCP user with sufficient permissions (so far not too insane), but also for any user that ever succeeded to ssh login via gcloud to any gce of…
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How to hide specific drives on a server?

I would like to know what's the recommended solution for the following problem. We do not want users to see (or at least not to modify) the drives D and E of a server they have remote access to. However, the tools installed on that server still need…
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What are my options in terms of controlling document management

In REF to Shared network drive with Office and delete permissions disabled leads to not being able to save We have several businesses that are now pushing over 30+ employees and many of these employees come and go. In some cases they delete files…
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Adding inetOrgPerson to account/posixAccount LDAP entries

I have a LDAP database we have been using for managing user accounts on our hosts, these entries have account and posixAccount as objectClass. Now we'd like to extend this to also use it as an adress book. As far as I understand, this means I should…
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Removing install user with Packer

When a VM is first created, it gets an install user that is used to run the provisioning. I want to remove this user at the last step because it's not necessarily secure and it's unnecessary. However, Packer runs all of the provisioners as this…
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IT helpdesk - remote management of user profiles

I have a question. I wonder what is the best approach for managing user profile enviroment on their computers? For example if there is an task for administrator to solve a problem on users profile on his PC. User is not behind his desk, so remote…
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What is a good configuration for networked Linux computers?

We are on a University campus network, and I am working for a professor who wants to network at least three new computers with four existing machines. I'd like to know the best way to setup these computers to work together. Below are the…
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Stop Domain Users from Installing Software

This is my last shot to figure this out. If I can even figure it out. Is there any way to stop a user from installing programs on their computer? We'll be running Server 2016. I've tried denying them local admin rights (which I did successfully).…
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how to see space claimed / used per user in owncloud?

I am trying to clean up a disk on a specific server. On that server there is only owncloud installed. Since I was not the guy who setup owncloud, and there is now way to reach the actual administrator I have to solve the issue myself. First I…
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Easy way to get all user accounts

I am in the process of migrating to a new server and I am having a number of issues due to user accounts not being present (for example nginx seems to be running under nginx user on the new system www-data on the old system). Is there an easy way to…
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How to allow a group to change user passwords?

I have the following openldap server configuration: access to attrs=userPassword by self write by anonymous auth by set="[cn=users,ou=Group,dc=my-company,dc=de]/memberUid & user/uid" write by * none # Allow everybody adding and…
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Find users with unchanged passwords?

I recently added a bunch of users and gave them randomly generated passwords. We've since instructed them to change their passwords, but we suspect that a large number of them have not. How can we expire the passwords of everyone who hasn't changed…
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Synchronizing web application users with corporate directory/database

We're building a web app positioned towards corporations; and have a need to maintain an up to date repository of user data for all corporate users of our web application. We're well aware of how to achieve federated authentication - however we have…
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How do I make it as if I've never logged into a workstation with a Domain AD user profile?

I've been working on setting up OneDrive for Business with automatic syncing and folder redirection. I got everything working, but there were some issues along the way. In dealing with those issues I've messed up my profile on this particular…
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Powershell arrays and comparissons

Im a Linux Sys Admin by profession, but am having to do some powershelling. My problem is this: Im getting a list of active users from the AD with this command: $allusers= get-aduser -Filter {Enabled -eq $true} | FT samAccountName My intent being…
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