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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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Access secured windows folder with java on a linux server

We're trying to mount a secured windows share on a linux server, but until now we're unable to do so. This is the setup we're having: A linux server that runs a java application A windows share that only allows members of a certain security group…
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vSphere: change users on virtual machine

Is there any way to affect user accounts an a virtual machine, directly from vSphere Client? Let's say I have a virtual Ubuntu machine and I'm not able to log in onto this machine. Can I somehow use vSphere Client to i.e. create a new User on that…
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How to inactive Active Directory users, 1 month after their FIRST LOGIN, instead of defining a solid expiration date

We want to give access to some Active Directory users, so they can remotely have access to our server and download from a special folder of the server. The licenses we give to users, are time base. There should be 1 month, 2 month, ..., 1 year, ...…
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Is using Capistrano for user maintenance tasks on university lab feasible?

I've been looking around for tools to replace some legacy scripts for creating and maintaining accounts in a university computer lab ecosystem consisting of things like: LDAP and Kerberos for authentication User home storage and web pages Entries…
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Import existing users into new Windows7 install

I put in the effort to move my user's profiles onto a different drive. I'd like to do an upgrade to Windows7, but I'm wondering how I can import the exiting users on the second drive into the new install. I know that Windows Easy Transfer exists,…
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Using Kerberos only for SSO

I've installed Kerberos on the Debian machine that hosts an internal application, to be able to use it to authenticate users against our AD. This works. However, Kerberos seems to feel responsible for managing the linux user accounts on that machine…
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Audit of who ran what command via ssh with shared account

We use shared accounts on our servers. Each uses a different ssh key. Is there a way to create an audit trail of who ran what commands? We can distinguish real "users" by the ssh key used.
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Which way is more secure: apache:admin or folder group owner:apache?

I have been learning in recent days how to set up var/www/ permissions. I understand the common solution is set a group owner of all new folders to apache via sticky bit. How about giving the Apache the secondary group of "admin" to which certain…
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user and groups for LAMP

I have written a script that installs a LAMP environment and a few other helpful programs. All of this has been installed under root. I would now like to create a new user called webmaster that will only be responsible for rendering my website…
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Software compilation and security

I have compiled different softwares (apache, postgresql, proftpd, and jboss) and installed then into a single directory (with the --prefix configure option). I have something like that: /opt/apache /opt/proftpd /opt/postgresql /opt/jboss. I run all…
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How can I allow users to change their local passwords?

We use an LDAP-server, but we also use local accounts. [jdoe@tst-03 ~]$ passwd Changing password for user jdoe. Changing password for jdoe. (current) UNIX password: Enter login(LDAP) password: This is an account that exists locally on the server.…
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Linux user groups : how to create shared directory under home

I have created 3 users 'u1','u2','u3'. Now I want to provide access to u1's /home/u1/share directory users u2,u3. I don't want to create a new common group named 'shared' and add 3 users there. Is it possible use 'u1' group itself ? So far I tried…
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Is it a bad practice to turn on multiple sessions for same user account?

We have 4-5 people technicians using a server and as they share a single user account, one person logging in ends the RDP session for someone else. Which would be a better practice - Using multiple account or allowing multiple sessions for a single…
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Add a trust hostname in mysql

how have I to add a trusted hostname in the mysql configuration? webserver.mysomain.com dbserver.mydomain.com I would like to add the webserver.mydomain.com in the mysql database installed in the dbserver.mydomain.com so all the connections that…
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How to avoid restoring deleted user accounts when recovering from backup?

Typically in websites, when a user wants to permanently delete his/her account, is necessary to remove this account also from the backups to avoid unwanted reactivations in case of backup restoration?
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