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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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multiple-account managing on linux

I would like to know how to solve multiple user account managing on Linux. For example, I have few linux servers. Few employee have access to all linux servers with their own usernames. When these is a new employee I should create a new user…
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How to Set Multiple Passwords for "HIgh Profile" Accounts

I generally set up servers with "important" services listening on nonstandard ports (e.g. SSH != 22) and rename or completely remove root/admin users. I recently thought that it might be fun to create an external jailed root (and happily decorated)…
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Am I being spied on my messenger?

OK. Let's make it clear: I am in a corporate network, and I have suspicions on being spyed. Don´t problem with that, not my PC, not my network. It´s fine. So, just curious: How I can know if they are spying on my messenger conversations? Edit: Can…
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Is there any utility in windows 7 that is similar to Local Users and Groups snap-in?

Windows 7 Home Premium has local users and groups mmc console snap-in disabled: Is there any custom utility I can use to manage my accounts? I need no more than adding users and email addresses to have some test accounts for my development…
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I need to create a group a group of pseudo admins in AD to manage users at a remote location, but I'm not sure how this should be done

My company is migrating/consolidating domains with several remote business we have purchased, and one of our remotes sites has a pre-existing IT department that we want to keep in place. We would like to give the pre-existing department access to…
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How to delete a local user in windows 10 and user data

How to delete a local user along with the users home directory or data in Windows 10, equivalent to linux command 'sudo userdel -r john'?
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AD Reset Multiple Passwords Simultaneously from LDAP Query

I have used a custom query in Active Directory to identify all users that have never logged in to the the domain. I need to reset all of their passwords and as there are several hundred I would prefer to do this as one bulk task. Although I know…
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How to define a complex user usage rules in Mikrotik?

I want to define a 50 MB limit for each user in Mikrotik and after it is used, have a speed limit of 8 kbps speed for unlimited time. Furthermore, I would like this policy to be applied on a daily basis-meaning every day to have the 50 MB…
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Best way to apply "one-shot quick fixes" to computers and users?

We often suffer from situations where we need to apply a quick fix for a bunch of users/computers. A quick fix can be a copy job, deleting a users browser cache or adding registry keys to HKCU to a group of users, etc. etc. Most of the time this…
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setting up sudo account

I want to create a managed account with root powers and the ability to su as root if need be to manage the box without needing root. What is the correct way to do it? Does this work? /usr/sbin/adduser -u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0,1,2,3,4,6,10 -M admin
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Windows users and groups management software

I need software to manage a large number of groups for a FTP server. Ideally this software should also allow managing the associated NTFS rights for the folders on FTP (if they still match the definition for example, or propagate rights changes to…
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Creating users in cpanel

We have recently purchased VPS server hosting and manage it through a WHM cpanel interface. There are many users who need to access this and all of them currently use it through the root login. However, I want to be able to create multiple users,…
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Semi-selfservice user registration

I don't want to have wide-open registration on my server so I don't have to deal with spam accounts, but at the same time I don't want to have to manually add accounts for each person I invite to my ejabberd server. Is there a way to have one-time…
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What exactly is Identity server and what is the purpose of using it

Currently I am working on a single sign on middleware application and I am confused with identity server and LDAP. I got to know LDAP is used for identity provisioning means it contains user records but I am not able to understand the purpose of…
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Restrict Access from certain machines to my Web Application in LAN

I am trying to deploy a Local Network web application, which should not necessitate a client login. The requirement is to block certain machines, (not users, just a few computers, the application doesnot have a login page, so users are anonymous)…
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