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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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Best way to find the computer a user last logged on from?

I am hoping that somewhere in Active Directory the "last logged on from [computer]" is written/stored, or there is a log I can parse out? The purpose of wanting to know the last PC logged on from is for offering remote support over the network - our…
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How do I convince my company to invest in IT - domains, security, etc.?

I work for a small-medium size retailer which has half a dozen high street stores and a website. The IT situation is currently in a very basic state. As being "Head of IT" is only a small part of my job description and the last on the list I haven't…
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Difference between profile and home path

What's the difference between a user's home path and their profile path in Windows Server 2003?
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Default groups assigned to the first user in Ubuntu Server 8.04?

I just made a silly mistake on my Ubuntu Server box: I added myself to a group using usermod -G, after which I discovered the -a option... The result is that I am now out of the admin group, and lost my sudo rights. I can sort that out, but I want…
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How to change users full name on Debian

I'm working on a Debian server as an inexperienced admin. I need to change the full name of a user (not the login name) provided during adduser USERNAME. How can I do this? I didn't find such an option in usermod…
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Adding an existing user to a group with puppet

Is it possible to add an existing user to a group with puppet 2.7.18? We have two modules, each one defines one class : module "user" creates all users, including user foo and user bar. module "subversion" deals with various conf files and creates…
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How to automatically reconcile /etc/group and /etc/gshadow

Running grpck to check the groups, I see these errors: 'twinky' is a member of the 'foo' group in /etc/group but not in /etc/gshadow 'dipsy' is a member of the 'foo' group in /etc/group but not in /etc/gshadow 'laalaa' is a member of the 'foo'…
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How do you tell if a user is "allowed to log in" on Linux?

The question is simple, I want to list all the user accounts which can log in to my system, but I'm not sure if that all the users in /etc/passwd are "could login" users? Details: I can see users whose shells are set to /usr/sbin/nologin and…
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Managing access to multiple linux system

A searched for answers but have found nothing on here... Long story short: a non-profit organization is in dire need of modernizing its infrastructure. First thing is to find an alternatives to managing user accounts on a number of Linux hosts. We…
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how many user accounts can a unix-like OS host?

Let's say I want to have a server with as many user accounts as possible. How many is the max? I want millions of user accounts. Is that crazy? I'd host dozens of load-balance mirrors of the box, and user data would be stored on a highly available…
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Unable to get the SSH access for a new user

I created a new user on ubuntu 10 username: codeuser There is an existing user called "admin". Now, my problem is that I cannot directly connect to the server using the codeuser credentials. But, I can SSH in through "admin" and then su (change the…
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Create SSH user with limited privileges to only use Git repository

I have a git repository hosted on my SunOS server, that I remotely use through ssh git clone ssh://myUser@mydomain.com/path/to/git Now I need to add more users to be able to access that repository, but not sure how. I have added one testUser to…
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FTP Error 530, User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible

I've been tasked with setting up an FTP directory for a client of ours. I'm working from a Windows 2008 Server with IIS 7 installed. To create the FTP user directory I've followed this eHow tutorial. The FTP site is already set up on IIS 7, so I…
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systemd, per-user cpu and/or memory limits

There is similar question: Cgroups, limit memory per user, but the solution doesn't work in "modern" systems, where cgroups hierarchy is managed by systemd. Straightforward solution — templating user-UID.slice — won't work, because it is not…
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Simple, centralized user management on a small LAN - NIS or LDAP?

I'm setting up a small LAN for my team. It will, for all intents and purposes, not be connected to any external networks. I would like it to have centralized control of user accounts (at least, I think I'd like that; I'm also considering using…
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