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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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What's the best method for creating a quota controlled shared disk space for a group of users on a Linux system?

Our users often request a shared disk space to use with a group of users in order to exchange or work on some files. To be able to also utilize quota management we create a new user account (which is quota controlled) and give access to that user's…
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Correct way to setup linux company share folder with usable permissions

I've just started working for a small company that has a globally shared folder run from an Ubuntu file server (Raid 5, etc) shared by Samba. The workstations (Centos) are all fstab setup to mount this samba share in their root file system ->…
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After using userdel -r to remove a user, user still appears on login screen (CentOS 7)

I used userdel -r [username] on CentOS 7 to delete a user, but the user is still appearing on the GUI login screen. Also, useradd now refuses to add the same username again, reporting that the user already exists. Another userdel command for that…
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How to get the time and date at which a user account is locked/unlocked in unix?

I need to get the exact time and date at which a user account was locked or unlocked in Linux. passwd -S command can give the status of an account i.e., if its locked or unlocked.
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PAM - LDAP authentication interaction

So far from what I understand it gets given a username/password pair, it then searches the LDAP for the username and tries to log into the LDAP using the distinguished name and the password pair, if it succeeds then the authentication is successful,…
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Lost all local admin rights on domain joined computer

I'm in an unusual predicament in that there is no account I can use to add local admin rights to a computer with the exception of the Administrator account - which is disabled. On a new domain I'm setting up, I created a GPO to try make the logged…
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Windows RD - Temporary Accounts in Terminal Services servers

We are facing this weird problem. Since a restart of the server recently, most of the user accounts are getting created with Temporary profiles. We followed a few blogs and followed steps as below: --cleared the accounts from Registry > ProfileList…
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Hiding the active Administrator account in Windows 8

I am trying to use the integrated "Administrator" account in Windows 8. The problem is that I do not want this account to appear on the Welcome Screen for login. I tried to hide the account by using the method described here. The problem is that the…
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What permission is needed to use a service account to remote run powershell on a server?

I have a internal webapplication With a list of all the servers in our network. I want to be able to run a few PowerShell commands on the servers to gather usefull information. Invoke-WMIMethod and Invoke-Command. I only need permissions to read…
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Bulk update Exchange Manager/Direct Reports data

I'm looking for an easy way to quickly update (and keep up to date) the Manager - Direct Reports data in Exchange Online. Right now, the only way I have is to go into EAC and manually update one user at a time. I'd also like to find the best way to…
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Active Directory remove user from GroupA if member of GroupB

In Active Directory, how do I efficiently remove all users from GroupA who are members of GroupB? Basically I want to subtract B from A. Have now: AAA BBB --- --- Alice Alice Charlene Bruce Chuck Chuck Desired: AAA …
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MySQL: Grant permissions for `start transaction` and "surroundings"

I have created a sample user with the following request: grant select, insert, update, delete on db.* to user@localhost identified by 'pass'; but that user does also need permission to use start transaction and commit. Which is the suitable…
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Determine the setup of an existing SFTP user

CentOs 6 Linux Server I have an SFTP user (userok) that is jailed to a particular sub domain. All working perfectly fine and that is all that user has access to (full permissions). I have just created a new SFTP user (userfail) on the same server…
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Manage User Specific PowerShell Functions in Active Directory Domain

Given: Windows Server 2012 R2 / PowerShell 4 Do need: a way to manage user/role specific PowerShell functions in an Active Directory domain. Do NOT need: help with coding these scripts. This question is about managing user/role specific PowerShell…
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Create account for service

I am configuring a new server. The server is running Hudson that is going to copy some files from this server to another. The other server is a virtual machine. Both running Windows Server 2012. Hudson is started on server A with log on as "Local…
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