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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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Directadmin 500 internal error after unzipping joomla to new user with same domain

I've move the public_html of a Joomla site from olduser to newuser. I've also moved the domain joomlasite.com from olduser to newuser; but when I go to joomlasite.com to visit it with the ownership of the newuser, 500 Internal Server Error is…
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Lock down or limit user access on Windows Server 2000/2003?

I am looking for a way to severely restrict user account access on Windows servers. Is there a way to programmatically do this? I have found a few options like forcing a user to start in a program other than explorer.exe such that it is the only…
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Limit bandwidth using tc, iptables, and htb

I'm running a Debian server and was wondering if there are good resources out there, to which you can point me, where I can read about traffic limitations. I have a couple of users sharing one server. Each month we only get lets say 1 TB of…
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Copying file from one user to another with PHP

I'm sure the answer to this is pretty simple, and it might not be PHP-specific, but I'm trying to use PHP's copy() function to copy an image from one user to another as part of a custom CMS setup. For…
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How to create dummy user?

I want to create user with least privileges. Without home, without rights, without shell. How to do that? When I call useradd it creates user with home
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ZFS: can per-user encrypted filesystems be deduplicated on block-level?

Let's assume I build a storage system where each user gets his/her own encrypted filesystem on top of a ZFS pool. Would deduplication on pool-level still work when each fs is encrypted? What encryption options do I have or which should be favoured?…
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Delete specific PHP sessions

I'm using PHP sessions as the focus for a user system on a website. As an admin of the site I would like to delete specific sessions to force users to logout. Or at least delete all the sessions so everyone has to login again (e.g. a major site…
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Use Puppet to deploy files to all user's home directory

I want to deploy a simple text file (a git commit message template) to each user's home directory using Puppet. I came across this post which seems very close, but the part I'm not clear on is how do I generate a list of users for each node? In the…
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Best user group for developer domain users

What is the best user group for Visual Studio 2010 developers? Now we have added them as Member of Domain Users but under certain situations they need admin account. We would like to give them more control on their machine but not on the domain…
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I'm not able to add passwordless entry to a new user on EC2

I'm trying to add a deploy user to a EC2 instance to work with capistrano. I've been able to add passwordless entry for user ubuntu, but it's not working with "deploy". I'm setting up this user as follows: adduser --system --home /home/deploy…
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PowerShell and Active Directory User Management

Issue: Take a list of usernames from a CSV file and recursively remove them from all of the user groups that they are a member of. I would like to limit what groups they are removed from based upon a prefix for the group name. Example: If…
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Managing a small group of workstations that are not connected to any servers

I have a network of 5 workstations, 1 laser printer and 1 photocopier. Each of them connected to a WiFi router to get out to the internet or use the printers and copier. They belong to a small charity organization that I volunteered in and as such…
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What is the difference between Features in Server level and site level in IIS7.5

I am having trouble connecting with IIS_manager created users to my default FTP site. I followed the guide at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/321/configure-ftp-with-iis-7-manager-authentication/ (as many of us did) but I keep getting error 530 when…
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My useraccount gets permanently locked by someone

My admin-account in our Datacenter get's permanently locked and I have to unlock it again and again with our general Datacenter-Administrator. I want it to stop, but I don't know who locks my account and on which machine that happens. We have…
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Remove saved folder access info?

Yesterday we had a user who was having problems accessing a certain shared folder on our network. When attempting to access the folder, I got the usual "Please enter your credentials here" dialog. Because that user's account has full permissions on…
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