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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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How can I force other users to log out?

Is there a simple way for me to force another user off of a linux box, while I am logged in as root? I understand that I could determine what type of session they have open, and kill the pid - but I'm thinking there must be a command to do this…
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How to do central home directories and user accounts on Ubuntu?

I need to set up a network of twenty Ubuntu machines and a server. As it is now, the users have local accounts on the machines, but I want to have centralized user authentication, with all user info stored on the server, and with server-side home…
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How to apply PostgreSQL "GRANT ALL ON ALL TABLES" to new tables?

As discussed in the question at GRANT SELECT to all tables in postgresql, as of PG 9.0 you can mass-grant privileges on all existing tables to user u, using a command like: GRANT ALL ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO u; Logged in as u, you can now…
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How does google compute engine create users and how to disable them?

I've got a CoreOS cluster running on GCE and one issue that I've noticed with all GCE instances is that as long as you're auth'd with the project on Google Cloud platform, you can login in as pretty much anything on the servers. This is an issue for…
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Cannot create new user account Windows Server 2012

I created a Windows Domain account that works on MYDOMAIN. All computers attached to MYDOMAIN can use the credentials I have created for log on except for one. On PROBLEMSERVER01 when I try to log in with MYDOMAIN \ myuser I get the following error…
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Crate a new, read-only user in postgres

I would like to create a new user in an existing postgresql database on an Ubuntu machine. I want to grant this user a read-only access to all the tables. How do I do it? Do I need to create a new user on Ubuntu, too? Thanks, Udi
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What Are Some Good Open Source Alternatives to Active Directory?

I'm looking for a good open-source alternative to active directory that can handle: Authorization/Authentication Group Policy Replication and Trust Monitoring In addition, are there any consolidated systems out there that handle these…
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unix user alias

is there a way to set up user aliases in unix such that if you have a user, my_user, they can log in with an alternate username, i.e. my_user_alternate and still be logged in as my_user?
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Get login name using email address with Powershell

I need a powershell script, to get login names using the e-mail address. i am having a note with e-mail address of some users. I want to get login IDs and account information of the users in the domain. Can any one help on this. Regards, Karthick.
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Replace gitolite3 user with git

I am installing gitolite3 on a server, with ssh and http pulling/pushing/alltherest. During the process, a user and group gitolite3 is created. When I run: $ ssh gitolite3@server info I get the correct gitolite3 message with RW repo…
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How to generate a /etc/shadow compatible password for Ubuntu 10.04?

How are passwords generated that are used by Ubuntu 10.04? I know that they use SHA 512 as hashing algorithm, but I figure that there is some sort of salting done. I need to generate such a password myself. How can I do that? Is there a command line…
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Add daemon account on OS X

I'm trying to manually install a daemon (Oracle Grid Engine) on my machine, and I would like it to run under an isolated account. What is the preferred way, using Directory Services, to add a "system" account to the local machine on OS X? Plenty of…
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Roaming user profiles in Linux

My company is evaluating a plan to migrate from Windows to Linux. Can you suggest something in Linux analogous to roaming user profiles and domain users in an Active Directory environment?
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How to create extra root user?

I have tried making a root2 user which should have the same permissions as root by doing useradd -g root root2 passwd root2 usermod -G root root2 usermod -aG wheel root2 but root2 can still not cat /etc/shadow as an example. How can I create such…
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Is using the AD home directory attribute to map the home drive really no longer a best practice?

I have read some articles that claim that using the Active Directory user home directory attribute to automatically map the home drive is a legacy method, deprecated, or not recommended. The second article I linked gives some good reasons why this…
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