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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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What files are created/modified when adding a user (useradd) in linux?

I know that /etc/group and /etc/passwd are modified, and /home/user/* is created, but are there others? Thanks.
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Postfix virtual mailbox base, uid, gid -- good user and group choice?

I often see tutorials for setting up Postfix with the virtual mailbox delivery agent on Linux that instruct to create a new disabled-login user and group to own virtual mailboxes in /home/example_username. This, of course, makes sense and is a…
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The ipmitool conundrum

We have been trying to migrate to a better password management system on our server. The problem was that all this days we were using a proprietary algorithm to create a hash (a decryptable hash). In keeping with advances in Linux, we have decided…
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PowerShell script that should find disabled users that are not in a specific OU outputs users from that OU as well

Hey I've got this cmdlet here: Get-ADUser -filter {(distinguishedName -notlike "Disabled Users") -and (enabled -eq $false)} -searchBase "ou=FirstOU,dc=domain,dc=com" I've built it to find disabled users that are not in the "Disabled Users" OU. (an…
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How to handle centralized user authentication without LDAP?

I'm attempting to create a centralized database for my users for my server and web accesses, so that I can allow those users to log in through ssh if they have access, and through my web services to view their account and system information. I've…
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End-User AD Management solution

We've just migrated to a pure Microsoft environment and are looking for an end-user AD management solution. Ideally we'd like users to be able to manage their personal info in AD. We have ~500 users in our domain. I've found a few products from…
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Decentralized usermanagement

I need some usermanagement for a serverfarm of +/- 30 linux servers. Normally I would think of something like LDAP, but we don't want to rely on a global server to which we need to authenticate, in case of downtime or broken connections. So I was…
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How is your "maintenance account" configured?

I know I'm not supposed to log in as root directly to configure things on my server. So, I always make a new account and add it to /etc/sudoers. I'd like to get some tips on configuring this maintenance account, however. Do you give it a home…
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What are the dominant purposes of having random user names vs fixed-format email addresses with AD/LDAP?

Example, a user name might be "ekg7d9a", but the user's real name is "Charlie Hanes", and the email is "chanes@example.com". What are the dominant reasons to use non-related user names with logins and email addresses vs an at-least-equally-common…
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How many Database accounts

How many user accounts should be setup for a given application? Where should the separation be? Should it be one login per application? 1 Application per program? 1 for front end and backend? How do you set up your database accounts?
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Is it possible to set linux user's priority?

I am on Ubuntu system, and I want to create "limited" user. I want all processes started by this user to have lower than normal priority. It would be great if I/O priority could be decreased as well (but it is not a must).
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Adding a local user from one Windows machine to a local group on another Windows machine

I would like to add a local user account from a remote computer to a local group on a Windows "server core" box. Neither the workstation, nor the server are in a domain. Is that possible? Will something like this work? net localgroup "Distributed…
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Casual Business Computer Management

Been working a lot with local businesses who operate in a more casual manner. No Active Directory, no passwords, and free web browsing and downloading applications at will to where every computer is just different. When and where do I draw the…
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How can I correlate a wall jack to a user/machine on the domain?

After reading Valve's new employee handbook, I was really interested in setting up a company map like they described on page 6: "The fact that everyone is always moving around within the company makes people hard to find. That’s why we have…
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Barracuda SSL VPN Managing Users

Not really sure if this is the right site to be posting on, but I have a question about my Barracuda SSL VPN. I know there is a built-in user database on the VPN. Is there some way (in my asp.net source code) to check what users are logged in to…
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