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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 there a tool that lets an end user manage attributes in Active Directory?

There are attributes in Active Directory such as manager and telephone numbers which can get out of date quickly. Is there an open source or inexpensive tool that can help with management of these fields? I'm looking for something that a…
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Migrate user profiles to new Active Directory Accounts

I have a few users in a very old workgroup that log directly into their local machines (Windows XP Pro). This week they're finally moving to active directory and will need to log into domain accounts instead. However, some of these users have been…
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Roaming Profiles: Simultaneous Logins of Same User

I am administering a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment that is using roaming profiles and folder redirection. The client machines are running Windows 7. Due to the nature of the business, users rarely logoff and frequently have logons on multiple…
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How to transfer user accounts to a new Linux machine?

I currently have a Linux box hosting our internal Subversion repository. Access to this repository is via svn+ssh with authenticating happening against user accounts on the machine. I have recently acquired a shiny, new box (also installed with…
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How do you optimize new user setup?

What's your top trick for getting a new employee set up quickly? Do you use images, scripts, something else?
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How does user/group security work on Linux?

For example, how does mount decide if the current user has permissions to mount a filesystem? From what I know, it checks the fstab file and the group the user belongs to (I think plugdev, at least on Ubuntu). Are those settings hard-coded into the…
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"Get-AdComputer -filter" doesnt return anything when looking for Vista Clients

Why does Get-Computers -OperatingSystem "Windows VistaT Business" not return anything? It works perfectly for all the other OS types. Function Get-Computers { Param($OperatingSystem) Get-AdComputer -Filter 'OperatingSystem -eq…
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Security, user access, login and reporting. How do you mentally adjust for the negative aspects of security management?

Employees get laid off, do stupid things (like peek at a porn site), talk about personally offensive/suggestive subjects on IM & email. As IT Manager, I am tasked to lock user accounts, change passwords, and compile IM and email summaries for…
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Linux : should I create nologin user home dirs?

i have a few java apps running on my server and I set it up so that each app is executed with a nologin user id. now, when I add users with /usr/sbin/useradd -g $MY_GROUP -s /sbin/nologin -d /home/$MY_USER $MY_USER I was wondering if there is a…
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Should I manage Linux Groups in LDAP on a per machine basis?

I am currently running an OpenLDAP Server managing my Linux Users as posixaccount and posixgroup elements like so: dn: cn=shellinger,ou=groups,dc=company,dc=com cn: shellinger gidNumber: 5001 objectClass: posixGroup objectClass: top dn:…
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Add system user to CentOS 6

I need help adding a system user to my CentOS server. I have two commands that works on Ubuntu Server, however I have to find a replacement for CentOS while keeping the same result. The commands are: sudo adduser --system --shell /bin/sh --gecos…
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How to add a linux user with a random or invalid password from a script

I want to add a user to the linux system from a script, but I don't want to invent or care for the password. This should be done automatically. The goal is to generate ssh-keys and this user needs only to login remotely. Or alternatively this user…
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Linux User Synchronization

What would you recommend as a way to manage users in a small Linux network, so that users only need to be created on one machine with them synchronized automatically on the others. Some are laptops that are not always connected if that matters.…
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Is a user automatically part of a group of the same name?

Consider this situation. A user called _example is created without assigning him to any group. A new group is manually added to /etc/group called _example without any users. Is the _example user automatically part of _example group now or does he…
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OpenSSH SFTP with Chroot, how to change password

I have setup up ssh with chrooted directory where users only can use sftp and access a directory and all is child folders. The only problem I have is that I need to let the users change their password somehow after I have created the user. I have…
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