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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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Log into Windows/Mac OS X authorised against users on a Linux server

We have a Linux server, and about 10 Mac OS X (10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard) workstations and 5 Windows (mostly 7, some XP) workstations and are looking at expanding. Is it possible to log into the work stations with user accounts that are…
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How do I create a new user on AWS?

I want to give developers individual access to AWS Management Console, and have their own security keys for AWS command line tools. Is it possible for me to do this using the command line tools? And if so, how?
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creating users on TFS 2010

I want to create a user for my local TFS server. The server is installed on a Win7 64 bit system. Is it possible to create a user which logins using the TFS' authentication? To be clearer, Can I create a user which is not part of Windows domain? I…
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Startup Script + Local System user = no functional program UI

I currently have a group policy startup script (CMD file). It runs during startup, as expected, but there is no UI for the program the script invokes. For example purposes, let's say I have this command as my startup script: rundll32…
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Migrating mysql 'users' to new machine gives off errors

I have looked at the settings a great number of times but run into the same issue. When connected to my Linux box with the 'exact' same settings, no fault. When run on a fresh machine with xampp for testing: SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied …
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Do I have reinstall client apps when domain changed?

Admin we hired gave a wrong domain name (windows network) and going to change it in a few days. He told us he will have to create users list from the scratch. Do users will have to reinstall client apps they have installed at their workstations at…
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Setting up individual accounts to a SQL Server

I am attempting to setup a MS 2008 sql server that would allow many users access to there own private databases. I would like the adventure works databases installed on all of these as well. My question is there an easy way to script this task of…
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Mac OS X Server (Snow Leopard) Mananged Client documentation

I'm looking to better understand setting preferences for managed clients...specifically plists for iChat... Where is the most thorough documentation for setting this up (Once/Often)? It's either not well documented or I'm looking in the wrong…
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Jail users in a directory

I have a vps running debian OS and would like to create user accounts on it. I want it so that when the user logs in with sftp, everything in var appears to be their home directory and they cannot cd out of it. For example, when user3 logs in, they…
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Change Date Format for Existing Users on Windows Server 2008R2

How do you change the date format settings on Windows Server 2008R2 for existing domain users, without recreating their local profile or manually setting the format by giving them temporary admin permissions?
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Edit local user account remotely: set passwordreq:yes

I'm using Net user username /passwordreq:yes but I need to do this on a bunch of machines. I can run a batch through SCCM, but would like to do it with a script. Anyone have a way to do this? Thanks! -Mathew
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How to manage ldap users/kerberos principals on Ubuntu server?

I've recently setup a small test network with an Ubuntu server and Ubuntu clients. People can login to a client machine using an account stored in LDAP (created using ldapadduser from the ldapscripts package). The problem has arisen when it came to…
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Mysql limit on the no of users?

We are planning migrate most of our authentication system from within our application to mysql. How many no. of user can mysql handle? I am talking about a couple of thousands at the moment and perhaps a lot more in the future. Am highly…
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Setting up individually accessible public_html for each user of a linux machine

I have a dedicated server on which I have a site http://www.example.com I need to create a user and: allow him ssh and ftp access into it allow him to access a page such as: http://user.example.com How do I provide ftp access to him? How do I…
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Uploads by web server cannot be read by FTP user

I have a www user under whichs runs the web server. I also have a ftp user that belongs also to the wheel group. The problem is that whatever file is uploaded by http via web server, than runs under the www user, that file cannot be read by the…
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