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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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DB2 users and groups

Just want to know everyone's experience and take on managing users/authentication on a multi-node db2 cluster with users groups. I have 17 apps in production (project based company, only 2 online apps), and some 30 users with 7 groups. prodsel -…
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Use default `ubuntu` user to deploy an app or make separate users?

I have a Ruby on Rails app and use Capistrano to deploy it to the server. The deploy user and the user running the app is the same - the default ubuntu user. (this has sudo access: ubuntu ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL) Maybe this setup is a bit insecure,…
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Azure Portal BizSpark Subscription - Is there any Max limit and cost for adding Users?

I am having Azure BizSpark Subscription in Azure Portal, and I want to add Guest Users and grant them roles/resources separately. I searched documentations but not able to find whether adding Guest users or simple users in Azure Portal has any…
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How to deny access for specific user to parent directory in Linux?

Goal: I would like to create directory rights so that specific manager user is able to access everything on /data and its child folders, but employees is able to access only Employee folder. This is Redhat. This is SFTP access. Employee users home…
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LDAP user has no name

A user on our Opensuse 12.1 server was trying to mount an NFS directory and came to me saying that he had no username. His user configuration is identical to every other user on the system, so I suspected that LDAP was failing entirely, but it turns…
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User shown in ps does not exist

This is strange: » ps -ef | grep gitlab gitlab-+ 19663 4237 0 06:45 ? 00:00:00 postgres: gitlab gitlabhq_production [local] idle But the gitlab-+ user does not exist: » cat /etc/passwd | grep…
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Ansible - User creation when server class criteria is met

I'm a new ansible user, switching from a collection of shell scripts to ansible playbooks. My current user management system allows for adding a user to a system only if that user has been granted access to that Server class, Location, and…
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Deploy exe from AD with elevated Privileges

I am trying to deploy the Sophos SSL VPN client to a group of AD users. The SSL client AND the user specific configuration file both require elevated privileges to install. There is no official MSI from Sophos for the user configs or the client. I…
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GCP user groups?

In GCP, are we able to group users like how we do in Active Directory? I was thinking, instead of assigning roles to individual users, I can assign to groups which is more manageable. Thanks.
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Does a copied user get the same folder permissions on a share?

This should hopefully be an easy question: Let's say User#1 has explicit Modify permissions to a specific shared folder. We make a copy of User#1 and call it User#2. Will User#2 also have explicit permissions on the same share?
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Simple network resource share inhibited by catch 22 password issue

This is a very basic network I'm dealing with in which one machine in an office is running Windows Server 2016 and currently acting as nothing more than a data server with plans to leverage it for remote applications in the future. I setup several…
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Create a User With a Empty Suffix in Windows AD

I have a server(windows server 2012) that had Windows AD(Active Directory) installed and is used as part of an application that I maintain. Most of the time my application programmatically manages this server, adding, editing, and removing users as…
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How do you handle home dirs for system/application users?

I have an airflow server where the airflow user has its home dir set to /opt/airflow. App related files and configs are stored here. Now, I have a couple of servers that the airflow user has to SSH into and run commands. The airflow app is not…
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LAMP setup + FTP - problem with user privileges

I'm sorry for uber noobish question, I'm new to linux and trying to learn and practice secure LAMP administration for upcoming little project of mine. I've installed vsftpd but can't setup permissions the way I want. It seems that files in /var/www…
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Linux: group disappeared from user's group list - Ubuntu 16.04

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 server edition. I had my user added to dokku group 2 days ago just to do periodical postgres backup without needing provide password in cron. I've added user to dokku group by this command: sudo usermod -aG dokku myuser…
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