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Humans using a system. They try to break everything. Always handle with caution. Expect the unexpected.

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User in Administrators group has not the same rights as Administrator (Win 2012 R2)

I have created a user admin and putted this user in the Administrators Groups (local, there is no AD). But This admin user has not the same rights as the Administrator user itself. Example 1: a file is owned by SYSTEM and the Administrators Group…
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Which MySQL users are necessary?

My MySQL server has a number of strange users which I did not add. Are these all necessary? 'root'@'127.0.0.1' 'root'@'localhost' 'root'@'SERVERNAME' 'root'@'::1' ''@'SERVERNAME' ''@'LOCALHOST' If I remove all the root's except root@localhost,…
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Nagios - new user doesn't get enabled permissions

I follow simple steps from guides all over the web: a) add an user to Nagios via command htpasswd htpasswd.users username b) in cgi.cfg file add this user to lines: authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin,…
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Puppet: how to create and manage unix users and groups

This last week I spent all effort into learning Puppet. Now I suffer from a mental buffer overflow and little confidence of ever being able to tame this beast. I came across many annotated examples but due to their countless variations I fail to…
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Allow scp/ssh for www-data user

I am on Amazon EC2 using Ubuntu 10.04.2 My web folder is owned by www-data so I want to be able to log into my server as www-data for ssh and scp. Thanks! Adding the line to my /etc/ssh/sshd_config does not seem to work. AllowUsers www-data
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Maximum number of users on Linux

What is the maximum number of users accounts I can have on Linux?
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Outlook Email Abuse - Guide for email etiquette?

I've spent a lot of time performing mail migrations for companies that either had very little IT focus, or no fulltime staff to handle common issues. As a result, policies governing email use and best-processes were never instituted. The end-users…
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How to add a domain user to the local admin group remotely?

I need to add a domain user in the local administrator group remotly and I have to the local admin password
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How to create user "nginx"?

Im just installed nginx from source but when run /etc/init.d/php_cgi start, there is a message:Starting php-cgi: spawn-fcgi: can't find user name nginx ...one more I dont know about their permission. previously I install nginx using yum (CentOS)
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How do I specify NetworkService or LocalService for a Windows Service on a Domain Controller?

This question is a not duplicate of these existing questions: AUTHORITY\NetworkService does not exist (question is for Windows Server 2003 How can I run a process as "NT Authority\NetworkService"? (this is a scripting…
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Run as different user

On a RedHat system, i'm trying to launch a program with a different user who dont have any shell. In /etc/passwd, shell is /sbin/nologin. I have tried: su myuser -c /home/myuser/script.sh Result: This account is currently not available. With chown…
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Ubuntu 11.04, adduser myuser: admin group is missing

Hi I'm trying to add myuser to sudoers after a fresh install with root account, # adduser myuser admin which gives: adduser: the group `admin' does not exist. however this works: # adduser myuser root but it doesn't make myuser a…
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How to create extra root user?

I have tried making a root2 user which should have the same permissions as root by doing useradd -g root root2 passwd root2 usermod -G root root2 usermod -aG wheel root2 but root2 can still not cat /etc/shadow as an example. How can I create such…
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How to enable ssh access without public/private keys?

I am building a progressive cyber challenge for my club members (the challenges work), but what I was trying to do to make the progressive part is have each challenge reveal the password for the next account (kind of like the bandit challenge on…
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Can I sudo a command on behalf of another user?

I'm using drupal and Aegir. Aegir automates many tasks of site creation. Aegir has control of Apache, I'm logen in as root, and I want to restart the Apache server, but I want to do it on Aegirs behalf. Unfortunately I do not know the Aegir…
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