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

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Proftpd CentOS user can only login with a /bin/bash shell

I've created a user and assigned a password and group (new group). The problem is this user can only login to FTP (proftpd) if he has shell = /bin/bash If I set the shell to /bin/false then Proftpd doesn't let him in and serves a 530 Login incorrect…
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How much network overhead (and file locking issues) can I expect for 25-50 users on a Visual FoxPro 9 ERP DB via SMB/CIFS?

Alternate question title: How can I translate “This software gives me the creeps” to a business case to upper management for not buying it? I am the IT Department for a small company which has experienced several years of sustained growth. We…
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User creation on Linux Redhat

Is there anyway one can determine when a user was created on Linux? I know of a couple of things one can do,but it's an unreliable way of doing it. The first option is checking when the home directory was created,running the command ls -ld…
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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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Can't login to Cygwin sshd server with a non-administrator user account

I'm having some difficulties logging in to my Windows 2008 server (a DC) running Cygwin sshd. I can log in fine with an account that is a member of the Domain Admins group, but when I try with a regular user account, ssh says "Permission denied." I…
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SQL 2005 Security - Users: What are they used for? (and other various questions)

I am not a DBA and so dont really know anything about SQL 2005 security settings, etc. I am attempting to set up an empty copy of our database by generating the full database from SQL Management Studio generated scripts. Unfortunately I don't know…
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Are there internet users connecting with HTTP/1.0?

Are there internet users connecting with HTTP/1.0? Such as over a proxy. Because I'm going to block HTTP/1.0 since most of the bots are using HTTP/1.0.
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Get list of users in a group in FreeBSD

How to get a list of usernames assigned to a group in FreeBSD 11.1? This Question asks for a list of users or a list of groups. This Question asks for users who happen to be members of multiple specific groups. ➥ But how to ask simply for a list of…
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Non-standard site directories

You know that by default, servers like nginx and apache use standard directories for sites. Like "public_html", "www". And I noticed that on multi-user setups the sites are placed in the user's home directory /home/username/public_html I have such a…
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Restarting a systemd service upon a network 'up' event

My system requires the use of a vpn, of which I use expressvpn which is based upon OpenVpn but uses its own systemd daemon. All connect/disconnect commands must go through the provided binary. In order to not type these commands into the terminal…
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Users as local admins on Windows machines

I am in charge of a Windows-based network of over 70 computers at work. Servers are Windows Server 2008 and workstations are Windows Vista and Windows XP. Most users are researchers, and some of them have very specific needs about constantly…
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Users satisfaction with IT support

How do you find out how satisfied are users with your IT support? Surely from time to time they tell you: this and that doesn't work, that was good and you talk with users daily, etc. But do you run like an annual survey or something similar? How do…
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Managing per-user rc.d init scripts

I want to delegate SysV init scripts to each user. Like the SysV init, each item in ${HOME}/rc.d starting with S will be launched on server start-up with the start argument. The same for the server shut-down with the one starting with K and with the…
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Centos setting password for user, but still can't log in on it

I've got a problem, where even though i set a password and try to log in with it, it doesn't work. I created a new user called test with password test. When i try to log in i get "access denied". I tried to re-set the password many times, but that…
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Easy way to get all user accounts

I am in the process of migrating to a new server and I am having a number of issues due to user accounts not being present (for example nginx seems to be running under nginx user on the new system www-data on the old system). Is there an easy way to…
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