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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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Adding FreeBSD user upon first login

Is it possible, to achieve the proposed behavior on my FreeBSD 8.2 server: New user ssh's into my server. He supplies as 'Login:' his student index number and a new, locked account is created with random password that is sent to his…
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Added a new user to group www-data and to sudoers, still not sure why user creates new directories as root

I'm new to Linux systems administration (dealing with users and groups) but I do have a lot of command line experience as a developer. Right now, i'm trying to make sure that three users I've added to my Debian server under the group www-data have…
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What does pwdadm -c effect?

If you were to run pwdadm -c against a user account and it clears the flags from /etc/passwd; what would those cleared flags stop from happening?
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Creating a New Kerberos User

I've inherited a Fedora Linux system running Kerberos, and I'm trying to create a new user. I've been able to bring up the kadmin prompt, and I'm trying to create the user NewUser, so I tried issuing the command: ank -policy users NewUser but I get…
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Restrict privileges for ssh user login to php script

I'm needing to work out a way of restricting a user (ssh login on ubuntu 10.04) to only be allowed to do the following: Upload txt files only (through SCP or SFTP) Execute the php command "php somefile.php" Is this feasible?
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Restrict windows 2003 user to a single program

I have a windows server 2003 sp1 (maybe will update to sp2 tomorrow, didnt update cause never needed). Currently it has just a user, the admin. But, I would like to create a user, so it could access it by remote desktop, but he should only be able…
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LDAP loginShell on platforms with different paths

I'm using LDAP to deal with users and authentication across my network. I'm now adding FreeBSD hosts and have hit a problem with login shells. on Linux, shells tend to be in /bin/$shellname, so setting my login shell in LDAP to /bin/zsh works…
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Creating security permissions for a non-domain-member user in Windows Server 2008

I apologize in advance for incorrect use of terminology, as I'm not an IT person by trade. I'm doing some remote work via a VPN for a client and I need to add some DCOM Service security permissions for my remote user. Even though I'm on the VPN,…
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Virtual users on Solaris

Is it possible to recreate the functionality of pam_userdb.so to make an application authenticate virtual users (valid for one specific service only) on Solaris? Situation is: higher-ups have dictated that we use a file distribution tool that only…
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Adding/modifying users to OPENLDAP?

Is it recommended to add users/modify properties of users to OpenLDAP after stopping the service ? I have been facing issues on adding users when the OpenLDAP server is running. I am using scripts from padl.com or manually editing creating ldif…
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associate user account with an email on ubuntu 10.10

Can I associate an email with a user on linux? such that I can easily send email etc to specific users from certain cronjobs. I have cron up and running, I have a mailserver up and running, I just need an easy way of extracting mailadr for a…
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What are some of the pitfalls of reusing a user name in Ubuntu?

First, let me state, this was an IT goof up. They deleted an account, went "oops" and created a new account with the same credentials. I can't fathom why. Regardless, I've got a Linux (Ubuntu Server 10.04) box authenticating against an active…
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How to Add user to Sql Server Express 2008 without Management Studio

I had installed SQL Server 2008 R2 "SQL Server Database Engine" in virtual machine and I want to connect to it over odbc from other computer (Linux). I hadn't installed management studio as I wanted minimal possible installation (it is mostly for…
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Restricting directory access in Windows 7 Pro

I come from the *nix world, so apologies if this is a trivial question. I did my best to find a solution by searching the archives, to no avail. I'm setting up a fileserver for very small office, total 4 people. The computer will mainly serve as a…
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How to install the same user on two different servers?

I have two Windows Server 2008 servers. 1) Is a web server 2) is a db server I need to use Windows authentication to access the db server, therefore I need to create a new user on both machines. I'm finding user domains quite confusing. Help or…
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