Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [user-management]

Practices and procedures aimed at performing bulk and/or fine-grained operations on user accounts, permissions, allocated resources.

660 questions
0
votes
1 answer

Allow sudo over SSH while forbidding TTY login

I want to lock users from local login (keyboard and monitor), but still allow remote logging with SSH. Easily achievable with passwd -l and ssh-copy-id. But what about sudo? I want to keep password for sudo, but not for local access. edit: system is…
kszonek
  • 1
  • 2
0
votes
1 answer

Plesk/Heml - cheaper, free alternative versions?

Hi have a windows server 2008 running 3 VMs, that shall be co-located. I have a few personal websites that needed reliable hosting in a full-trust environment, hence the investment in my own server. However, as a small design business to offset some…
asn187
  • 219
  • 1
  • 4
  • 10
-1
votes
1 answer

Global authorized_keys associated with a user?

Is it possible to have a global authorized_keys file that associates each user to their own public key? For example, I would like to create multiple user accounts by their Github user name and public key. Instead of iterating through each user &…
eppixdev
  • 1
  • 1
-1
votes
1 answer

List of active users and their access rights to O.S. in Windows Server 2003

How I can get a list of active users and their profiles (access rights) to O.S. in Windows Server 2003 ?
Rauf
  • 199
  • 1
  • 2
  • 8
-1
votes
1 answer

Newly created user on EC2 is disappearing

I use CloudFormation to spin up a stack with one EC2 instance. Once the instance is running, I want to be able to use "Run command" feature to execute some scripts, but not as root user. That's why, in the init script (UserData section of the YAML…
PiotrK
  • 99
-1
votes
2 answers

Completely rename an unix user

Recently I had a hack try on my server and someone from this forum gave me some solutions to protect my server from hack. A trick is to not use defaults users, for example pi for the raspberry. The problem is when I started to configure my server I…
M. Ozn
  • 123
  • 5
-1
votes
1 answer

Cannot sftp using a password

I have setup my server to allow sftp using a password however I'm getting Authentication failed. even though I'm using the correct password. Here is my sshd_config # Package generated configuration file # See the sshd_config(5) manpage for…
JohnnyQ
  • 117
  • 2
  • 8
-1
votes
2 answers

How do I remove my user from the "roots" group?

I accidentally added my user myuser to the group root using the command sudo usermod -a -G root myuser. Now I want to remove myuser from roots, but I am unable to do so. I tried the following: deluser myuser root sudo gpasswd -d myuser root but I…
modulitos
  • 335
  • 1
  • 3
  • 16
-1
votes
1 answer

How would I add an SSH user as a member of www-data jailed to /var/www/html/?

I have been trying to setup ftp access on my Ubuntu 14.04 Apache2 server and so far I only have a root user. The problem I am running into is that the uploaded files are owned by this user whereas I would like them to be owned by www-data. I know…
Unique Depiction
  • 1
  • 3
-1
votes
1 answer

"Entire Directory" option missing from Locations in "Select Users, Computers, SrvAct, or Groups" dialog

I'm a very inexperienced server admin, so if fail to provide some important information I apologize in advance. I am doing some development for a very small software company and I'm having a bit of an issue with accessing Active Directory users from…
Dave Novelli
  • 113
  • 5
-1
votes
1 answer

Is there a way to find out who was logged on a Windows server in a past year?

I'm just wondering, is there a way to find out who was logged on a particular Windows server in the past year? Security log is only 1 month old or less and user profiles were deleted. Thanks a lot for any tips.
Martin_K
  • 1
  • 2
-1
votes
2 answers

How to manage server configurations for small projects and servers?

I have been developing a web application which recently launched. Now I am continuing with improvements and want to create a staging server similar to the production server. I know of the existence of tools like Ansible, Puppet and Chef, however…
Machiel
  • 105
  • 2
-1
votes
1 answer

Powershell Security Groups

Active Directory via powershell want to add users to a specific group. But that is a member of a particular group of users that other members do not want to be included in the relevant group. For example, a member of the ABC member Group1.…
BLackX
  • 1
  • 1
-1
votes
1 answer

Deletion of User and home directory from NFS

I have 10 systems with opensuse installed in each of them.I have created 2 servers such that one is NIS and other is NFS , i have added lets say 5 users to NIS and their corresponding home directories were rsynced to second system (NFS). NOw i want…
user229534
  • 154
  • 3
-1
votes
2 answers

Count of Unix users: how many is too much?

I know about Postfix MTA configuration concepts: there's tree of them and the last one is most-appropriate only because it doesn't require new Unix user to be created for new mailbox creation. From manual: As a system hosts more and more domains…
greenV
  • 111
  • 2
1 2 3
…
43
44