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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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Is HashiCorp Vault the correct tool to store users sensitive information

Is Vault the correct tool to store sensitive information about users, eg. theirs pay rate or personal id? "Normal" employee/user must only have access to his own data but the users with accountancy role must have access to everyone data. Users are…
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Allow restricted user to change their own password

Recently I have followed the articles below, however, the passwd file that I copied to a dir in the users `‘home`` dir. However, when the new credentials are parsed into passwd, it ends up with the error of: Authentication token manipulation…
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Best practices for setting up Linux "service" user

I've set up a server running Ubuntu to host a backend based on Node and MongoDB with Nginx as reverse proxy. When I first logged into the machine I was root, and without thinking too much that's the account I used for setting everything up.…
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AWS EC2 Linux - how to grant contractor SSH access

We have an AWS EC2 instance running Linux (Amazon Linux release 2 (Karoo)) and Wordpress. Currently everyone at our company SSH's to this server with a wordpress.pem file (the below line is just saved in a batch file we connect with): ssh -i…
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Bash - Run 'chage' Command Against Each User Account

I have to audit the users accounts on our linux servers in each environment so I want to script checking whether each account is expired or not. I have a for loop that's pulling user accounts listed in /etc/passwd and stores them in an…
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How can I "archive" accounts in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC)?

I don't mean disabled... and I'm hoping for something other than "exported". Here's my problem: My org never deletes accounts (just disables them)--not my call. I've hidden the disabled accounts from browsing with a custom filter…
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What is the best way to setup/install a new Windows PC and including it in the Active Directory?

Since I have to setup every new PC by hand I was wondering how I could optimize that. Especially because I use the new Users password to login so the Device is added to the AD after Windows installation. Now I have to change it again and give it to…
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How do I delete/remove a SUSE 10.3 user?

I'm using Putty to connect to my Webserver. I'd like to know the command to delete a user I've set up a few days ago. Is there also a way to display all the users and their rights?
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Use `chsh` on GCP VM in order to change from bash to zshell, default password is unknown

I'm trying to change the default shell on a GCP VM but am running into difficulties trying to use chsh. It seems that I have access to root as I am able to run sudo apt upgrade. I have also installed zshell: user_name@instance_name:~$ which…
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Upon creation of new user non-existent groups added

I am little puzzled with below outcome. I am logged in as root and created 2 new user. tecmint and tecmint2. New user became part of group that I cant find in /etc/group. How can I find out why this is happening and fix it. User added using below…
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Rename an account from XP command prompt

How can I rename a local user account from the XP command prompt? Is there a NET.EXE personality that I've missed? (I also didn't see anything under Useful Commandline Commands on Windows.) Thanks.
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How do I move user folders for many users to a new server?

I need to move two users folders on two separate drives on a main DC to another shared folder on a NAS. These user folders are the users main home drives. What is the best way to do this without doing it one at a time.
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Using Fail2Ban as non root

What is the best way to add IP to Fail2Bans blocklist for normal user, (non root) but without giving full acces to fail2ban-client for that normal user. To run for example this command for normal user: fail2ban-client set apache-badbots addignoreip…
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Best Practices: Unix User Management with LDAP + Kerberos?

I'm running a small LAN for 5 users with some basic services, e.g., NFSv4 mounts and SOGo groupware. Because it seemed to be a good and easy to implement idea, authentication is a combination of Kerberos (with LDAP backend) and authoritative user…
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Do I need to specify the user:group in sudoers to impersonate other users

I was trying to limit the command a specific user can execute in the sudoers file, say I have something like this: dummy myserver=(ALL:ALL) /usr/sbin/reboot,/usr/sbin/shutdown My dummy user is only allowed to reboot or shut down the system. I…
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