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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git networking for small team
I'm trying to set up git for my programming team.
My setup is:
1. example.com (Ubuntu server)
IP: 192.168.1.2 (public: xxx.yyy.yyy.zzz)
main git repository in /var/www/testgit
user: mot (root)
2. host2, Ubuntu
IP: 192.168.1.101
git clone of main…

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Minimum permissions needed to create a user Home Folder in Windows Active Directory
We would like the Help Desk to have the responsibility of creating User Home folders instead of our 2nd level support.
The help desk global group is already an Account Operator, so in Active Directory they are able to edit all User Attributes just…

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Limit unix users file access
I just created a new user on my server, but I only want this user to have access to var/www/ and all the files/folders inside that.
They should be able to access no other files on the server except those.
How would I do this?
Thanks!
Michael
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Limited SFTP access under Debian
under debian, I want to create a user who can only access to a specific folder (ie /home/user/some/folder/ (this folder already exists) , can do anything that he wants like modify, create delete a file) and no privilidge to any other stuff beside…
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Does exist a method to list all jobs in crontab for all users on a system
The title says everything.
I'm using Fedora 11.

Luc M
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Active Directory or Mac configuration. Where to look?
I m a student at a university.
There is a computer lab which has Mac computers.
There is citrix account which is kinda VPN to school network. There is putty in citrix applications.
When i use putty and try to ssh into a Mac, my access is denied.…

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How to migrate a user from OS X 10.4 to OS X Server 10.6?
What is the best/safest way to migrate the data of a 10.4 OS X user to a 10.6 OS X Server? This user is a local user (no Open Directory, etc.) on both machines. They are connected through a local network.
Ideally, the following would be…

Eric O. Lebigot
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KVM access via ipmitool
Is there a way to provide to a new user "KVM access" using ipmitool or sol? There is a checkbox in User Management settings and I can check it manually, but I have a few hundreds of servers (Lenovo, Inspur, Huawei, Asus, Gigabyte) and it is going to…

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Replicate local user policies between PC's
I used the Local Policy Editor Management Console that applies local policies to a specific user on a Windows 10 PC.
After saving the new policies, I want to replicate it to other PCs.
When I opened it on another PC with the same user, I got an…

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How to trace process that has already terminated? And even trace back its parent process?
I am able to jail specific commands execution by a proxy script to a user whose sudo privilege is only this script sodo check here for how to. Also the sodo script logs whatever critical commands they ordered:
sodo:
#!/bin/bash
# pass command by…

George Y
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WebDAV server that respects user accounts
I’m investigating implementing a WebDAV server and all the public advice points to Apache2.
There are 2 issues with this, first it uses it’s own password file rather than the users system password and second file accesses and writes seem to be…

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Why does the `sa` command (from the acct package) always show "0" for avio?
For example, I get:
0 host:~# sa -m
6908 4946803.89re 1211.65cp 0avio 2558k
clamav 2 363298.58re 990.07cp 0avio 71384k
root …

Jamie McClelland
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Roaming Profile Alternatives
I'm a volunteer system admin at a small UK Charity. We currently use Roaming Profiles + Folder Redirection for Desktop, Documents, Downloads & Pictures. We only have around 8x Windows 10 PCs and just over 10 users with 2 Windows Server 2022 servers…

Garry
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Firebase console user access control
Im looking for a way to have user management (creation, management, roles assigments, etc.) for Firebase console users (not app code level control). So far I've been testing solutions to this situation by integrating Microsoft as a provider in…
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Authentication and user manager for Ubuntu
I'm a little bit confused about user management / authentication systems.
I would like to achieve the following:
Have a central database of users / organization units (like Active Directory) - FreeIPA
Have SSO capabilities (SSO login page, etc),…

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