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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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Grant remote access on domain computer to single user

We have a small network with a DC, webserver & user computers. I need to grant remote access with admin privileges to the webserver for a consultant that we are currently working with but not sure how to do this... Anyone know how to do…
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Adding existing user to existing group and providing permissions

can someone shed some light on this issue I've set up and installed vsftpd. Created a user ftp-user and created a home directory, so they can log in, and just have access to drop their files here. >> sudo useradd -d /home/ftp/ftp-user -m…
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Managing multiple users for multiple sites in Ubuntu

For managing sites on my web server, I create a new user per site. They get a home directory where their public folder is located. From time to time I may be logging in as a site and would like to have my config/dotfiles available to work with. This…
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How can I set up a single user that can edit multiple sites' files with correct default permissions?

How can I achieve this setup: There is a primary user that I use to ssh into the server and edit all files for multiple sites. The various sites are stored in the /srv/www directory, so /srv/www/site1, /srv/www/site2. There is a different user…
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Create a Bulk user creation script on Windows Server 2008

The script below (create_user_list.bat) loops and creates 30 users. It works well on Windows Server2003 but is breaking on Server 2008. The error that is received is 'System error 5 has occured. Access is denied'. Is there a permision level that…
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Adding Windows SharePoint Services users from local users on hyper V

I am running Windows SharePoint Services on a Hyper V server provided by my ISP. My WSS install is standalone and using SQL Express. When I go to add users to the site collection I see all users on the current Active Directory, including other…
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Windows Server 2008 extremely limited user

I have a couple AWS windows 2008 instances that are about to go into production but I need them to be load tested first. We found an overseas group to do the load testing but they want to be able to monitor the CPU usage while they run their tests.…
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New administration user's $PATH seriously differs from the root's

I'm administering a rented CentOS 5.6 Dedicated Machine as root like initially setup but I'm aware it's extremely bad practise, so I created an User named administrator, placed into groups administrator wheel sshd and added ## Allows people in…
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How to change local user home folder on Windows 2000 and above

I was using a local account on a Windows 7 desktop that is not connected to any Active Directory. After a while it was required to rename the local account. Renaming the account was simple using Local users and groups management tool. After renaming…
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linux useradd limited

How do I make a user account using useradd and give the user access to only the dir where he can just read write files. The user when login goes to this base dir I provide and cannot access anything else on the system.Thanks
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Add users to a server folder

I use Windows Server 2003 R2. I am logged in as user Administrator. I want to give myself permission to add a user for a certain folder. I granted myself all possible permissions for the parent folder of this folder. But it is still not possible to…
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Possible options for knowing user's identity without using a user account

I am managing a network in a condominium. Right now, I am looking for a method for logging the users' activities without using a user login system. We have this login system not long ago, but people hate it. Some people have problems with Internet…
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SQL Server: best account for dbo user?

What is the best account for dbo user? I mean that if I use personal AD account for database owner, and if this account is removed from AD (e.g if I leave my job), these databases are not accessible. I have heard that there is also problems using…
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How can I rename a shortname in OpenLDAP on OS X Server 10.6 (Invalid DN syntax (34))

The company I work for is running OS X Server 10.6. All of the users were created with a first.last username syntax. This is causing problems and so we are trying to change the usernames to firstlast without deleting and recreating all of the user…
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How do I create a guest ftp user and give access to specific sub-folder with SSH?

I just got a virtual dedicated server at GoDaddy. I got the Simple Control Panel. There doesn't seem to be a way to create a guest ftp user through this control panel and I was told it must be created through SSH. I have a program called Putty which…
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