Account allows a user to authenticate (does not imply authorization) to system services and be granted authorization to access them;. To log into an account, a user is typically required to authenticate oneself with a password or other credentials for the purposes of accounting, security, logging, and resource management.
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Creating local user account c# and .NET 2.0
How can I create a local user account using .NET 2.0 and c# and also be able to set the "Password never expires" to never.
I have tried using "Net.exe" using Process.Start and passing its parameters but it seems that the "net user" is unable to set…

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What to use for login ID?
We are in the early design stages of a major rewrite of our product. Right now our customers are mostly businesses. We manage accounts. User names for an account are each on their own namespace but it means that we can't move assets between…

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WooCommerce: Assigning an endpoint to a custom template in my account pages
This function adds a tab named "Special Page" into "My Account" tab list:
add_filter( 'woocommerce_account_menu_items' , 'jc_menu_panel_nav' );
function jc_menu_panel_nav() {
$items = array(
'dashboard' => __( 'Dashboard',…

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Firebase : Prevent same account on multiple devices
I'm working on an angular app and I use Firebase to authenticate my users.
I would like to know how I could prevent my users to give their account to other people.
Also I would like to prevent people to use the same account to login from different…

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WooCommerce Create account programmatically / through function
Is there anyway to create a customer programmatically like you can with a WordPress user. Obviously the WooCommerce user shares some of the same WordPress user fields, there there is additional content that would need to be set like Billing / Postal…

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Get the Google ID used in an in-app billing purchase
It has come to my attention that a device may have multiple Google accounts logged into it simultaneously. I understand that pre-Honeycomb, there is a primary ID; from Honeycomb on you can simply plug in several. I currently have two IDs logged…

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Can I use AccountManager to let users sign in with their Google account?
I'm creating an app that will need users to create an account. (Like Facebook or Twitter would require you to.)
BUT, since it's an Android app, should/can I let them sign in with their Google Account using AccountManager or some other service? It'd…

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Create new user group in Mac OS
With the need of create new user, I perform with the link below:
http://osxdaily.com/2007/10/29/how-to-add-a-user-from-the-os-x-command-line-works-with-leopard/
It works great.
But how to create new group?

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Multiple conditions in if statement shell script
I would like to know whether it is possible to have more than two statements in an if statement when you are writing a shell script?
username1="BOSS1"
username2="BOSS2"
password1="1234"
password2="4321"
if(($username == $username1)) && (($password…

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AWS account vs Amazon consumer account
I am a longtime Amazon.com customer, and now I am interested in using Amazon Web Services (AWS). So I have a question on creating an AWS account.
Do I have an option to create an AWS account that's completely separate from my Amazon.com account…

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Cannot add new custom account from different app with same authenticator
I have two apps that both use a same custom account type. Those two apps are completely independent and just share the account. When one of them starts, it checks for existing custom accounts and if no account was found, shows the sign-in page.
So I…

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How can i get the DomainName\AccountName with the .NET Framework?
How can i get the
DomainName\AccountName
as string with the .NET Framework?

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Android Create Sip Account Programmatically
In my application I want to have one Activity that enables user to add his SIP account parameters in fields.
I don't want them to go Settings->Call->Internet Call Settings->Add Accounts->Add
I have created account with activity with the following…

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Connect service to existing meteor account
I am setting up a meteor app that involves signing up with a username and password, then hopefully connecting that account with facebook and twitter.
I have the first part up and running easily, just with the accounts package. But when I have a…

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How to change owner of an appengine application (moving/selling it to a new company)
I have developed an AppEngine application that I am transferring to a different company, and I would like to remove my own personal access from this application after the transfer to the other company is complete.
The first step that I took in…

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