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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Does ldapmodify propagate changes of dn/uid to associated groups of the user?
I have to modify a user's UID and DN in an OpenLDAP server because of marriage. Now, I follow this example from Oracle's website: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22289_01/html/821-1273/adding-modifying-and-deleting-directory-data.html (under the…

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OpenLDAP to 389-DS: Can I have "named password policies"?
I'm trying to understand how "password policy" works in 389-DS, compared to OpenLDAP 2.4:
In OpenLDAP 2.4 I could define multiple "named" password policy entries, and assign those to user entries.
For example I had a policy "interactive users"…

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How to change the owner of a file to that user when a user modifies a file
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 version.
I want to satisfy two conditions in an environment with multiple users.
Users will all upload files via ftp.
Multiple users should be active in one home directory.
And in order to know who the last person was, when a…

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Can I seperate SCP and SSH login, using different ports and different users?
I want to separate SCP to be on a different TCP port than the regular port 22.
Using this port, a user should only be able to run SCP commands but not to do a regular SSH login. That user would not have access to regular SSH login on port 22, and…

Yair
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Azure AD Change UPN
I have an account (admin@xyz.onmicrosoft.com) in an Azure Active Directory (non-Hybrid). I want to change the UPN name "admin." to "firstname.lastname".
The field is editable in Azure Portal and altered using the Set-MsolUserPrincipalName cmdlet in…

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Setting ep an AI server for multiple users
In the University I work, we want to buy a workstation with one or two powerful GPUs. We want students to be able to use the workstation remotely. This is the main restriction. It would be nice if multiple users could use the workstation…

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cant' delete user with userid 502, 503 and on CentOS 6
I have a CentOS VM that shows the list of users like this:
drwx------. 2 504 504 4096 Dec 10 2000 username
So if I try to run the userdeel command I got a message saying that the user does not exist.
How can I make sure this user does not exist…
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How to change the super user after installation in Ubuntu?
I have taken over the system administration on an ubuntu system from someone else. I had an normal user account on this system before, that I am still using. The previous admin made me sudoer, so in principle I have almost all priviledges I need to…

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Ansible: how to run subsequent task for only newly created users?
The user creation policy in our organization is to force changing password on first login and use SSH keys for remote connections; the password is only used to run sudo or login locally.
To force password change we commonly run chage -d 0…

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Restrict users from local accounts on Intune devices?
Devices are enrolled either via Autopilot or Azure AD Join in Intune, but the issue of people using local accounts remains. Do you know, is there a way to force Azure/Hybrid AD accounts and collect report on which local users are actively in use on…

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How to add users and computers back to server 2012
I have windows 2012 server which I had to nuke due to virus issue, which has active directory setup with users and computers. Now I have installed fresh windows server and setup ad & dc with same name as it was and wanted to add all existing users…

Yogesh
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Postgres Role required to grant CONNECT on a specific database
I am trying to GRANT CONNECT on a DATABASE to a user as a schema owner in that database.
The schema owner is not a superuser.
Do I need to be the owner of a database to execute
GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE DBXXX TO USER_YYY; ??
What role should a user…

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idmap range on Ubuntu 20.04 (sssd) does not match CentOS 7 winbind idmaps (kinda)
My Active Directory maps in Ubuntu systems are very long compared to my CentOS IDs The last 4 digits match but Ubunutu seems to be adding a lot more to the beginning.
In CentOS winbind/samba I used a range to get the IDs I needed:
idmap config…

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Updating AD attributes programmatically
My apologies, as I am an engineer not a sys admin, but am working with someone who is managing AD.
Current situation: We have an AD attribute that contains a longish parse-able string that contains several data elements. We'd like to break those…

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How to check ldap password storage policy
How do I check how passwords are stored in a local running OpenLDAP server? I would prefer some sort of query that will state the used configuration. Alternatively, accessing the stored passwords to see that they are encrypted would also be…

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