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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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Where is my Users Account -> Advanced Tab?

I'm running XP Pro SP-3. I want to manage my user network passwords as in this tab: But for some reason when I go to my user accounts I get a different view and nowhere to get to this feature.
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How can I limit a users bandwidth in Windows Server 2008 R2

We have a user that likes to download movies with torrents in our office and it just kills the overall network performance. Unfortunately we need this user and don't want to confront him directly about this so we're looking at options to limit how…
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Dead simple tool to administer users on multiple servers?

I'm responsible for several web servers which all hosts the excact same content. They are all participating in a load balanced setup. Whenever I need to create a new website on one of these servers, I currently have to create that user on each…
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Execute commands on user login/logout

When I log into my linux user through ssh, the user should automatically execute a set of commands. Same thing when I log out of my user. How can I accomplish this?
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Multiple user-account creation

I'm running a workshop and I have a Windows 2008 server, I want to allow my students (nearly 90) to upload some of their work to the server via ftp. They are not part of any Active Directoy, so which is the best way to create their accounts and let…
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Ubuntu script to add multiple user with apache userdir and mysql username

In Ubuntu 12.04, I'm having difficulties creating a script (since I'm not experienced with it), and is assigned to add multiple users from a list of names in file usernames.txt. The users will have url: hxxp://hostname/~userN, where N is…
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Using command line to see if a given computer's local guest account is disabled

I need to generate a report that shows the guest account is disabled for a given list of computers. How can I use net user, powershell, or any other commonly used tool for this purpose?
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Add users to an AD group by distinguished name

I have a multi-forest AD environment with trust relationships between domains in different forests. (AD level 2003) I have a list of distinguishednames of users that I want to add to a local group in one of those domains. How can I add a user to a…
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Restrict MySQL Access of Users to a Specific Domain

I'd like to create a new user in mysql which will be able to connect only from my servers. I've seen a way to do it through IP ranges or domain names (e.g. CREATE USER 'repl'@'%.mydomain.com' IDENTIFIED BY 'slavepass'; ) Can I somehow (by changing…
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Debian Simple Gui for adding/removing users for protective directories

We have a hosted site with a directory that is password protected. I need to have a user who knows very little about computers, maintain the users that have access to this directory. The list is going to get big, according to our customer…
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UltraEdit for Multiple Terminal Sessions

If you are using/installing UltraEdit a lot, you might have experienced that you can register it for only one user on the machine... But as I am setting up a Windows 2008 Terminal Server for several users to access remotely, it is a PAIN to register…
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Add permissions for a usergroup to all domainprofiles (roaming profiles) on server 2008 R2

This is our current situation: We have an active directory with Server 2008 R2 and roaming profiles which is currently in use (old server), and we have a new Server 2008 R2. We already set up a new AD on the new server and only want to copy the…
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Innovation: Single sign on integrated with web filter?

This one is a doozy, so be forewarned! Also please let me know if this isn't on the correct site. What I would like to implement in the form of a server appliance is a single sign on solution that would integrate with "cloud" apps such as…
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Is there a way to check when was the last time a squid user logged?

I have a Squid server and I think that many accounts should be deleted because people are simply not using the account anymore or they quit job ages ago... How can I obtain a list with the last login date so I can decide which user delete?
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let users group do "sudo -u username chown"

I would like to edit /etc/sudoers so that group users can execute (only) /bin/chown as user dummy. How might this be done?
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