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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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Mysql slow.log user specific

I use a slow.log logging on my MySQL server, to catch bottlenecks in my script, but at the same time, i use phpmyadmin on this server. My script and phpmyadmin has different MySQL user accounts and now, when i analyzing the slow.log file, i see a…
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Restrict SSH commands for a group of users

I'm trying to set up an environment where a number of users in a certain group can SSH into a server and then execute a set of predefined commands on it, using either a key exchange or a password. So far I've been told to look into the…
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Freebsd jail for an small company - checklist - what shouldn't forget

Looking for an checklist for an "small company freebsd/jail server". Having pretty common starting point: FreeBSD jail (remote/headless) for the company: public web, email, ftp server, and private (maybe in the future partially public) wiki…
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How do I set up SSH to allow 5 people log in to 100 Linux boxes with the same credentials?

Suppose I have 5 users and 100 Linux machines with remote shell enabled. How do I set the environments up to allow these few users to log in to any of the machines with the same credentials?
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Expiring Inactive User Accounts

I want to have some method of determining which user accounts have remained unused for a certain period of time, lock the accounts, and then after a further period, delete the accounts (notifying the user at each step). These user accounts (in my…
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Sync user accounts over multiple linux servers

What is the best way to sync multiple user accounts and home directories over multiple servers, they will all be the same OS. The servers are in different locations around the world, so if one goes down the others are still available. at the moment…
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Any repercussions from not using default primary groups for Linux users?

We were thinking of not using the default primary group for our RHEL users. What I mean by default: User: melbin Primary group: melbin We will instead do something like: User: melbin Primary group: webmasters Our goal for this is to allow users to…
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Linux User and Permission Management within an AD Environment

Issue: Centralized user management and user permission mangement of user access needs for resources (access to services, home directories, joining to local user groups, file system permissions, etc.) on Linux servers by way of group membership…
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Disable temporary user profile on workstations in a Windows 2008 env

I have a Windows 2008 domain with +/- 27 workstations. The users have all roaming profiles, but this doesn't work sometimes. What results in that the user is logging in with a temp user profile instead. Is there a way to disable the temp user…
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Active Directory New User Workflow

I work in a small organization that uses a single file & print server with an Active Directory domain for user management. The office admin who inducts new people is non-technical and generally creates the AD user account because there is no…
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How can I make a user and give read only access?

I need to give SSH read only access to a certain directory so they can look at my PHP code. The directory is /var/www/html/websitenamehere/ How can I make a user and let them login via SSH to see that directory and read it only? Is that…
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Central authentication and /home storage with caching

I want to move my jumble of a home network (mixture of Windows / Mac clients) to run exclusively on Linux. The machines will all move to Linux. Before I embark on this (sure to be fun) journey, here is my wish list: Central authentication…
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Simple one-way synchronisation of user password list between servers

Using a RedHat-derivative distro (CentOS), I'd like to keep the list of regular users (UID over 500), and group (and shadow files) pushed to a backup server. The sync is only one-way, from the main server to the backup server. I don't really want to…
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Tutorial on user and group management in Linux?

Is there a good tutorial out there on how to do user and group management in Linux? For example in Ubuntu; I've been trying to find how to alter GECOS information about each user on command line, but there is no man page about it.
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How do I set permissions structure for multiple users editing multiple sites in /var/www on Ubuntu 9.10?

I'm setting up an Ubuntu server that will have 3 or 4 VirtualHosts that I want users to be able to work in (add new files, edit old files, etc.). I currently plan on storing the sites in /var/www but wouldn't be opposed to moving it. I know how to…
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