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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 to import bulk data into specified field in active directory

I have about 500 users in my AD and I need to Modify an specified field data. But I don't want to do that one by one. How can I do that?
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Automated third party software for Active Directory administration

I have a situation where there are multiple Active Directory (AD) groups that each account is added to but each group have different expiration dates. For example, user1 will be in groupA and groupB. The access for groupA should expire in 1 month…
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puppet nis user management

I started using puppet for managing our RHEL servers. At this point I try to setup the user management. We are running a NIS environment on our campus, so until now I added the line +testuser::::: to the /etc/passwd file which then received the user…
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Including default files and folders in User's home directory

I'm using ubuntu server 14.04. I want to include some default files and folders in home directory for every user, whenever a new user account is created. How to make this. Can anyone help me in this. Thanks in advance.
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Need help - limit access to sftp user to other users home->subfolder

I have been able to find a lot of help with jailing a user to their own home folder and restricting them only to sftp but I working on a more advanced solution. What I am trying to do and can't find any docs on is I want to restrict sftp access for…
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Usergroups in LDAP: User and Group in same object

"Usergroups" are a common concept in UNIX, many Linux distributions (e.g. Debian) use it as default. It means that each user has its corresponding private group (e.g., User "alex" has also a group "alex" which is his primary GID). Now when you have…
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Set Linux user account expiration after user logs in

I'm looking to have Linux user account expire 7 days after the user logs in. Is there any solution aside from a custom-written script which checks and updates user accounts? I have already looked at chage, /etc/login.defs, etc. Those tools allow you…
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Powershell waiting for more parameters when asking for all users from a specific OU?

I want to get all the users from OU "myusers" so I have this cmdlet right here: get-aduser -filter * -searchbase"ou=myusers,dc=domain,dc=com" But when Im running it, powershell prints a >> sign.. Im new to ps, but I think it means its waiting for…
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What account should own the files on a shared ubuntu webserver?

I have multiple users with FTP access to my ubuntu server, each running their own website. Apache is running as default after installed through apt-get. I believe www-data is the apache user. If the user owns their files, apache cannot modify them…
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How do I apply NTFS permissions to protect user profiles?

I want to set NTFS permissions on a users home directory so that one user cannot access another users home directory. How do I go about doing that? I need to be able to apply this to hundreds of users at once. It would be great to be able to batch…
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User authentication; PAM or Radius?

At college I'm part of a group of students that keep a server infrastructure running for the students. Lately we've been having a lot of trouble with the servers, and we decided that it's probably better to start from scratch and reinstall…
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Script to apply Simple Finder restrictions to Mac OS X user?

Is it possible to script (e.g. with AppleScript or bash shell script) applying the Simple Finder and an associated application whitelist to a local user account on Mac OS X? We are using Mac OS X 10.8.5 and have a need to be able to do this on…
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Error setting a Windows Service LogOn user

I have a windows service installed (Vista SP1), and I'm trying to set its logon user to a domain user instead of the SYSTEM account. I'm able to select the domain location & user through 'browse', but hitting Apply gets me this error message: "the…
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deny local logon for a new user through command line windows server 2008

I am creating a local user account that I want to be able to connect over ftp, but not log on to the server, I believe the way to do this is to deny local logon but am unsure how to achieve this via the command line. This needs to run from an…
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Should I set the password when creating new user using useradd command?

I know that when creating a new user by useradd, I could set his password by -p option, but it seems insecure, then what the right way to create a user and set his password? I do this in two steps: 1. create the user using useradd command without…
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