Practices and procedures aimed at performing bulk and/or fine-grained operations on user accounts, permissions, allocated resources.
Questions tagged [user-management]
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AWS IAM Groups: Designing for Least Privilege - Deny Or Allow
I am trying to create the appropriate AWS IAM Groups to implement Least Privilege. Is it best to create groups explicitly denying specific actions and allowing everything else, or creating groups that allow only the specific actions needed? AWS's…

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Web interface to manage users created with FOSUserBundle
Is there an existing web interface, which could ease the management of users created with FOSUserBundle in a Symfony (2 or 3) project? Typically it would be presented as a bundle extension of FOSUserBundle.
To justify my question, here is a dead…

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How do you set up a trust relationship to a vendor domain
A my current client we have a rather elaborate domain setup and I think it might be better to set up a trust relationship so the client domain is able to reference users and resources on the vendor domain. This will make administration of users much…

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"Easy" FTP acces for Google Compute Engine?
I'm setting up hosting on the Google Compute Engine with a LEMP stack, and from time to time the need arises to allow a third-party developer access to the server.
To have to explain to every customer service how the gcloud tool installs and…

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Domain controller with Active Directory local user account
I am setting up a domain controller and active directory at my job. I have everything working great (for the most part)... I have policies in place. I am getting a lot of static from the upper ups about this change, as they have had a DC/AD in the…

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change /etc/group folder location
I'm using docker with ubuntu and I need to mount
/etc/group
/etc/shadow
/etc/gshadow
/etc/passwd
inside an external volume, in order to avoid the password loosing each time I've to rebuild the docker container.
From the point of view of…

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Prevent Temp user creation in windows
Windows creating temp profile every time when I login to the PC. The pc has more than one user. I am facing this problem in many Windows 10 and Server 2012 PC's. The temp profile creation is not found in every user. But, in most of the cases it is…

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Exchange Mailbox Delegates
Is there a way to add default mailbox delegates in Exchange Admin Center so that whenever a new user account is created the helpdesk is automatically setup as a delegate to mailboxs if end-users need assistance?
Right now there are 3 default…

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Two groups of access for linux file
Consider we have two groups: readers and writers.
I want to create a file (directory), for which the following holds:
Only users from group 'writers' can have write access to this file.
Only users from 'readers' or 'writers' can read this…

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Rsync permissions for webroot with non-root user
I'm trying to set up a non-root user that is able to rsync files to the webroot of our RHEL 6 server. I have a user set up currently that is in the apache group, as well as the wheel group (in order to allow sudo access per instructions here).
I've…

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Numeric User IDs and PAM_LDAP
We are working on to configure our Linux servers to use LDAP for Authentication using PAM_LDAP + SSSD. Our LDAP Usernames are based on staff numbers (all numeric starting at 1). This will cause a conflicts with daemon, bin, sys... system accounts.…

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Anyway to limit IP Access for Certain Users?
I am currently tasked with allowing Vendors onto our process network. The issue is I need to make it so each vendor is only able to connect to PLCs on their own machines "each PLC has its own IP". Is there a way to limit what IP addresses a windows…

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Allow non-admin access to AD Users and Computers via RDP
I'm trying to lock down our AD domain and remove unneeded users from our Domain Admins group. I'm a Linux guy so some of this is new or different.
We are an all Mac shop so the only way for us to manage our AD is directly on the AD itself. We're…

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User management with cronjob
In my organization, we want to implement a user management standard after an utter chaos. Where we(organization) and the client was able to access root user and they made changes which took down the server. However, the blame came on us for playing…

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refreshonly not working with Puppet exec resource
I am using the following user resource to create a unix user and then set an initial password for the user. I then performed an exec with chage command to force the user to change his password after his first login.The manifest is as follows
node…

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