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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NFS-mounting utmp
I've got a Slackware Linux cluster I'm planning on using for general-purpose shell accounts. Accounts are managed such that there are no UID or username conflicts among nodes. Given this, would NFS-mounting my utmp be a workable way of allowing,…
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Is there a decent way to manage accounts across disparate web services?
I'm in the position of needing to manage the accounts of multiple people across many different types of services, including onboarding and offboarding users. Being that we're using multiple different web-based services which are generally more user…
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How to inactive windows users, 1 month after their FIRST LOGIN, instead of defining a solid expiration date for them
We want to give access to some Windows Server users so they can remotely have access to our server and download from a special folder of the server.
The licenses we give to users, are time base. There should be 1 month, 2 month, ..., 1 year, ...…
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CentOS 6 restrict user ssh access to his home folder
I am trying to restrict a newly added user to his homedir /home/username. Don't want him to be able to cd out of it.
I have this my sshd_config:
Match User username
ChrootDirectory %h
X11Forwarding no
AllowTcpForwarding no
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Custom user and custom permission on Linux
I've this need, I have to install ubuntu on a machine for a specific purpose, and I have to create a particular locked user account.
On startup i need to display the login box (so I have to admin the machine, only reboot and login as root) in the…
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Lync 2013 user setup
Couple simple questions on Lync Server 2013. We have setup a standard edition environment for a single domain. The domain is not the same the email address domain (e.g.: domain is something like domain.local, and email address are…
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How can I "fix" a user that has no home dir but is logged in
I created postgres using the useradd command without thinking twice about it. I've already got postgres installed and running. I'm unable to add a home directory to postgres because the user is currently logged in.
Can I somehow log the postgres…
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new user and problems with ssh key configuration (pub vs pem files)
We access our ubuntu server from outside over ssh this way :
ssh -i securityTier.pem -l someUsername serverDnsName
I need to create new user which will use separate *.pem file. So far i created :
sudo useradd new-user
sudo - su new-user
ssh-keygen…
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Linux user permissions setup for monitoring tool
We have external monitoring tool which will access our linux machines through SSH and will read top/ping/netstat/disk activity. As i am creating separated ssh key and separated user for this purpose i wonder if i can restrict this user in any way or…
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PXE server - ubuntu setting username/password later - is it possible?
so I am writing a program in mainly C/C++, though I think this question fits under server fault as it is related to the Linux distro Ubuntu.
So what I am looking for is a way (possibly hackerish-way) to install Ubuntu 12.04 (or later), BUT without…
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Cannot log in via chroot SSH
I not only want to transmit files via sftp, but also want to log in via ssh.
Here is what I changed in sshd_config
Match Group ssh_jail
ChrootDirectory /mnt/chroot
I have mounted /mnt/chroot/dev, /mnt/chroot/dev/pts, /mnt/chroot/proc,…
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Should I use system user account as opposed to normal user account for deploying the code in App server?
I have a Tornado app-server running behind an Nginx web-server. The app server contains python scripts for tasks like processing client requests, database call, running business logic, etc.
Of course, the code must be executed via a Operating…
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W2k Server: delete specific users by console
I want to delete specific user profiles in win2k-Server.
I thought I could achieve that with microsofts Delprof. But there I cant specificly declare userXY. So is there an other console way to delete users in win2k server
EDIT: DelProf2 isnt working…
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Multiple users, one public_html directory
New to creating users with linux. Trying to
add users in a secure manner, limiting damage a user can do
give all members of the webadmins group access to the public_html folder as projects are often shared
restrict the webadmins from any other…
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Puppet do wrong command for create user
I have 2 debian boxes. One with puppetmaster, second with puppetd.
# puppet -V
2.7.18
In manifest i have:
group {
"tipadima":
ensure => present,
}
user {
"tipadima":
shell => $operatingsystem ? {
FreeBSD =>…
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