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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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Setting user quota on a share in Win Server 08r2

I have several shares on a server running 08r2 that I have users dumping files to. I would like to limit each user to be able to use only a specific amount of the space (quota) Any help on how to configure this is appreciated. Thanks.
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Easiest way to replicate users between two (or more) servers?

I've got two webservers which takes part in a load balanced setup. The two webservers are in other words mirrors of each other. As it is right now I'm synchronizing data between these two servers using lsyncd + csync2. Directories and files, along…
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Ubuntu, How to prevent listing sub-directory if parent-directory is protected

I remember last time when I am on some Linux OS ( cannot remember ), when I change the mod of a directory to 711, that folder together with all of its sub-directories cannot be listed (ls -al) by any other user different from the owner. However my…
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Security: How to improve security of Linux servers when few resident developers need shell access?

Possible Duplicate: SysAdmin & Developer: Responsibilities Suppose, I have 20 servers: We keep data in Linux servers Developers often need to Login to the server to debug some issue Sometimes they have to access user data and run through the app…
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In Amazon RDS, how can a disabled master user be re-enabled?

With a SQL Server instance on Amazon RDS it is possible to do the following to your master user: ALTER LOGIN masteruserid1 DISABLE GO If this command is executed while logged in as the that master user through SSMS, every other command will fail,…
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User policy with git and apache

I want to setup git repository on my server so it is accessible from my webserver (read and write with redmine). I want to be able to create repository with my user (toto) in SSH. Currently I set up the following: I have created a…
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How to revert mass ownership change?

Possible Duplicate: revert chmod 777 / -R I accidentally executed the chown someuser * -R while I was at / on my server. I thought maybe by issuing chown root * -R would somehow fix it. But it seems that there are some problems. For example now…
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Enforce Profile Path Windows Server 2008

Is there a way to enforce a profile path in active directory on win server 08 (or set a default one) so that when a user is added the profile path is automatically filled in in the profile tab. The reason I want to do this is that I am setting up…
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How can I set up Web Filters, Time Restrictions and logging via user account login

We have a small network (between 30-50 computers) and I have just recently installed a Windows server using Windows Server 2008 software. We have a unique setup where we are "piggybacking" off a business network. Our department runs our own server.…
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Is it possible to batch restore backups and remove users from databases in MSSQL 2008?

We're having to do an emergency migration of all of our MSSQL databases from a dying box to a new shiny instance of SQL2008. Unfortunately, we're having to do it by restoring from nightly backups (.bak files). Is there a way of: Automating the…
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Is there an console based usermanagement-tool for debian?

i'm using Debian Squeeze. I just wondered if there is a simple console (maybe curses) based user-management-tool for Debian? I'm not looking for something bloated like YAST, but for somthing simple like there is with sysv-rc-conf for runlevel…
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How can I convert between a web hosting burstable MBPS bandwidth Vs. a fixed # of users connection?

I just got a price quote from a VPS hosting company that told me my Virtual Private Server could host 10 simultaneous user connections at once. What would this correlate to in terms of burstable bandwidth (Megabits per second) that other companies…
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How do I give a roaming user account the install privilege on Windows Server 2003 through GPO?

I've been searching online for sometime trying to figure out how to do this, and I keep getting contradictory instructions. How to give a roaming user account the install privilege on Windows Server 2003 through GPO?
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Advanced PostgreSQL user management

For the users in our institute, we want to provide a quick and simple way to use PostgreSQL databases. Currently, we are already able to authenticate all users through LDAP (PAM). This works rather well. We have to do a create user once and it is…
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Automatic User Deletion in WordPress

I'm helping build a WordPress site for a client, and they've let me know that they want to offer trial subscriptions for their site (they run on a subscription-based model - everything but the homepage is locked down until a subscriber logs in; this…
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