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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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Building an OpenSource Network (Intranet) infrastructure based on Linux (AD, Domains, etc.)

We currently manage our networks (Intranet) using Windows Server 2008 R2, as it was relatively easy to manage and configure. Being a non-profit organization we were sponsored our initial setup but we would have to add more computers soon and we…
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Delprof.exe old accounts except the Administrator

How do I use the Microsoft Resource Kit utility Delprof.exe to delete old profiles (older than 30 days) without deleting the local Administrator account? delprof.exe /Q /C:\\remotecomputer /D:30 This gets almost there but I want to skip the local…
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Is there a generic way to tell if a username is valid on a Unix-like given system?

I'm looking for a cross-platform way of determining whether or not a username and groupname is valid. The platforms are Linux, Solaris, Aix, and HPUX. It would need to work whether the user/group is defined locally (e.g. /etc/passwd) or through a…
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Ubuntu Create FTP account automatically upon user creation

I will note that I am using Rails but this is not a Rails issue. I'm not very experienced with Linux but I do know I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on Linode. Upon user registration the user is created a folder in my…
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Should I use Organisational Units or Groups in Server 2008?

At the company I am doing work for at the moment I am setting up a new server. It's going to be running Microsoft Server 2008 and be used as a domain controller with the DNS pointing to OpenDNS for filtering etc. The orginisation is a medical…
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Samba users not added untill they logon first? Edit: How do I add users to tdbsam without a password prompt?

I add users to my server with the command useradd -m -p PASS_HASH -s /usr/sbin/nologin USERNAME Then I try to access their samba home share, but it never shows up until I login with the user: root:~$sudo login failtest Password:###### Added user…
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Troubleshooting tips for USMT?

We have a large Vista migration underway and are using USMT (User State Migration Tool) to grab profiles in preparation for the push, which has resulted in some problems. The majority of the captures proceed smoothly however a significant minority…
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Delete windows profiles with similar names using a batch file or script

I’m on a Windows 2008 server and would like to delete 15 users (user1 till user15) without having to do this by hand. After deleting them completely I’d like to readd them (again, with a script) and give all of them the same password for which the…
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RunAs under domain account from non-AD Windows

Why does this answer tell me it is impossible, and this one states the opposite? Update1: http://msgoodies.blogspot.com/2006/04/runas-without-domain-trusts.html
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Know my novell server version and adding a user

how do i know the version of novell on my server when it has already been installed? How do i add a user to the novell user? is there a graphical user interface to manage novell services?
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Windows 2003 Permissions Problem

I am trying to setup a new user on a Standalone (non-domain) Windows Server 2003 SP2. The user needs FTP access to 1 folder in our web site's directory structure. Here's exactly what I have done so far: Created the new user in Computer…
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Is there a good graphical/pseudographical/web-based tool for managing Linux users and groups?

Is there a good graphical/pseudographical/web-based tool for managing Linux users and groups? To see them all at once, operate them (create, remove, associate (add/remove users to groups), modify) with couple of clicks?
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How to train users converting from PC to Mac/Apple at a small non profit?

Background: I am part of a team that provides volunteer tech support to a local non profit. We are in the position to obtain a grant to update almost all of our computers (many of them 5 to 7 year old machines running XP), provide laptops for users…
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Linux Permissions

I am running Fedora 12 and I've setup a partition separate from my root partition to keep shared files and home directories. Now, I've been having permission issues where it says the user cannot chdir into their home directory (/files/home/*). Now,…
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SQL Server 2005 Accidentally removed a user from public role, can't add user back into role

I'm trying to crearte a DB user account that only has access to a specific database, and can't read or change other databases, and can't alter credentials for any other accounts. I accidentally removed this user from the "public" server role while…
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