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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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Shared configuration for Eclipse on Debian server

I've manually installed the latest Eclipse on our debian server and wanted to configure it so all users share the same configuration. It turned out less obvious than I thought: I don't seem to be able to install packages for all users. If I run it…
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One vs. many domain user accounts in a server farm

We are in a migration process of a group of related computers (Intranet servers, SQL, application servers of one application) to a new domain. In the past we used one domain user account for every computer (web1, web2, appserver1, appserver2, sql1,…
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Moving to an outsourced Exchange provider - turning Exchange off and updating user accounts

we used to have Exchange on the SBS 2003 server inside our AD environment. Earlier this year we moved to outside Exchange provider but for the time being our local Exchange was still up&running and forwarding email to the new email accounts. Now the…
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Isolating a new user to a specified directory (CentOS 5.3)

Basically, I'm running this command: useradd -d /var/www/website.com/Pirate -ou 10003 -g psacln -s /bin/bash Pirate I want the user, Pirate, to only have access to /var/www/website.com/* in order to push and pull to our Git repository,…
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Changing account password while a process is running under its identity

Does changing the account password on a Windows XP machine affect processes running under that account identity? Are there any issues I need to take into account when doing that? How about Windows 7?
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Create new Windows Server User for existing Exchange Account

There is an existing Exchange 2007 account for user john.doe@example.com If I want to create a Windows SBS 2008 Account for john.doe it tells me I cannot create it because user already exists. I don't want the user to have 2 logins. Is there a…
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windows 2003 - Can a server operator install windows update packages?

If not, do you know witch permissions have to been granted for that? thanks!
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Setting up a user on ubuntu (for ftp purposes)

So is setting up an ftp user really just setting up a user in ubuntu? I saw something about setting up a user without a home directory. What other things are important? I'd like to give the user the least amount of privilege possible. They only need…
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Windows XP User Permissions - local machine

I want to have 2 types of accounts on my machine: admin (easy) and a user account. What permissions should the user account have and how should I set them? Permissions should include everything except install and uninstall of programs, deletetion of…
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Windows server 2003 R2 problem with resetting user password

I am trying to help a friend and with the limited knowledge I have about the server setup ,here are the 2 problems Resetting a user password does not work New user created cannot logon to the domain The server is a domain controller Some pointers…
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How to get the name of the windows default user group

We want to change file permissions for the windows default user group. The problem is, depending on windows version (xp,win 7) and language, the name of this default user group differs. Sometimes the name of the group is "Benutzer", sometimes it is…
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Fedora NAS software raid?

Hey guys, we got a new linux server for the office, and my boss decided I would install the software, but I have no clue what software to use. I am looking for network drive support for window boxes (both laptop, and desktops) on our local LAN, and…
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bulk swap uidNumber/gidNumber?

We currently have LDAP servers in Dev env. and staging/prod env. Both are not coupled and accounts are created manually. So the uids are same but the uidNumber and gidNumber are different across these two envs. I am trying to upgrade to 389 DS and…
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Migrating Identity Providers - specifying a new users password hash

We'd like to switch Identity Provider (and Web Access Manager), and also the user directory we use, but would like to do so without users needing to change their password. We currently have the SSHA of the passwords. I'm expecting to write code to…
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Active Directory Username Formats

I'm working on an open source project that will manage active directory users. I am looking for feedback from Windows/Active Directory Admins on the formats of usernames they prefer or their organization uses. I want to make sure the software…
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