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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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What are my options for centralizing Unix user management

We have 15 Debian servers and growing. What's a simple, lightweight method for centralizing user management? Use cases would be adding a user across all servers, tweaking a users access on a specific server(s), removing a user from all servers. LDAP…
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How do I give users reboot rights on fedora?

On a fedora server, an web application which is in development stages, get stoked for unknown reasons for the moment. The only solution is to restart the linux machine, but only the root has acces to do that. Is it possible to give reboot rights to…
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choosing Red Hat Directory Server vs FreeIPA vs Other

I'm setting up a new, small network. About 10 servers at 3 sites with just 3 users total. All are running RHEL 6.1. I was hoping to have centralized user management, especially having a single password to make our lives easier. Easy is the goal…
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What are the minimum permissions to grant an Exchange 2007 admin to perform specific mailbox management tasks?

I would like to allow someone else to administer user accounts and mailboxes (add users, reset passwords, disable accounts) on an Exchange 2007 server. Obviously, they should not be able to disable or alter the administrator accounts or make any…
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Can I create a hidden admin account via the terminal on OSX?

I have around 300 baby macs to look after, and they have lots of different admin accounts, which is a nightmare to work with. ARD has slowly been configured with the accounts of the machine owners, but that doesn't help when bringing on board…
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How to restrict members of a certain group to one login per user?

I have an ssh server. Some of my users login several times simultaneously; some of those who are doing that should not be, and I suspect account sharing. The ones who shouldn't are all members of a particular unix group. What I'd like is a way to…
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How to configure nginx+php (fcgi) to run every subdomain with a different user?

Im pretty new to nginx and - more for learning purpose - im trying to configure Nginx in order to run php with a different user for every subdomains. For example, i would like to use user john for all scripts on foo.example.com and user jack for…
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List users in all specified unix groups

Is there an easy way to get a list of users who are in all specified groups? For example, if I have the following users: fred - rainbow, dell jane - hp zippy - rainbow, hp, dell george - hp, dell bungle - rainbow, hp, dell I would like something…
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RHEL4U3 user modification question

I have a user with a username of jsmith who was recently married and wants her login to reflect her new married name: jdoe. I understand that usermod will make the changes but I am concerned about implications that I haven't thought of. I want to…
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In simple terms the difference between a Group and a Role in OTRS Ticket system?

I'm new to this whole OTRS/Help ticket system notion. Be grateful if anybody could provide a simple example that differentiates between a User in a Group and a User associated with a Role in OTRS. And what makes using one of these more or less…
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Strategies for dealing with challenging users

We have a few challenging "power users" who know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to know the trouble they cause. The typical example is "this is slow, see I have run xyz command that proves it...", which leads to IT spending cycles proving…
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Mac OS X Server add server user

What's the recommended way to add a user to Mac OS X Server that doesn't need all the hoopla associated with Workgroup Manager? There are many users pre-configured in Mac OS X Server (www, root, ldapadmin, etc.) that don't have "Full Name" or mail…
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Linux: Managing users, groups and applications

I am fairly new to linux admin so this may sound quite a noob question. I have a VPS account with a root access. I need to install Tomcat and Java on it and later other open source applications as well. Installation for all of these is as simple as…
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pg_hba.conf - psql local login without password

I have these settings in my pg_hba.conf for a PostgreSQL-12.6 installation # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only local all all md5 local all postgres …
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Best practices for docker users on a shared machine

We would like to use docker on the servers of our university. From reading https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/linux-postinstall/#manage-docker-as-a-non-root-user I understand that it is recommended to create a Unix group docker and add users to…
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