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.
Questions tagged [account]
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Will changing my Github username to SnakeCase break anything?
So I read How to safely change github account name?
But if I just change my username from stevemoser to SteveMoser that shouldn't break any of my repos right? Or is Git case sensitive?

Steve Moser
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Recognize if user has defined a native facebook account in iOS 6 settings
Is there a way to know with FACEBOOK SDK 3.1 and iOS 6 if the user has defined his facebook account in the iPhone settings for native facebook use?
What I want to do is when opening my app, if the user has defined a "native facebook account" in…

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should i need to create mysql accounts for all the user who register on my website or create 1 mysql user and pass cretitials to all users
i am really confused should i need to create seprate mysql accounts for every user who register on my website or just create 1 mysql user to query database for all users somehow i am very confused
if i create 1 mysql user for all users on my site…

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Github wrong username
I have setup with guthub with a previous github account on this computer called myaccount when i run this command
ssh -T git@github.com
Hi myaccount! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
Ok but i have now…

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iOS: How to know if a mail account exist
For my app, I need to know if there's a mail account has soon as the app is launched. Is there a way to do that ?
I don't really know what canSendMail does but it does not seems to verify that.
Thanks

little
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Using Google account as Login... what next?
I'm developing an app for android, that will have an api-like server side. And this app will have users login mechanisms. I want to use a google/fb/twitter account as login information, as the purpose of the app is very socially-spoted.
I have…

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Multiple Android Developer Accounts
I have an Android Developer account for my company (but associated with my mail and credit card).
I'd like to create a new developer account for personal use.
Its legal to have multiple developer accounts under the same physical person? I don't find…

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How to force Azure Storage Account as classic
We recently built a infrastructure and application deployment framework using the Azure Resource Manager and templates. In order to deploy a Cloud Service, it is required to first setup an Azure Storage Account. As of recently, this was…

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How can I extract the current user's account picture?
I am trying to extract the current user's account picture in Windows 7, but I can't seem to figure out where it is located. I have found that the picture is sometimes written to the User's temp folder, but only after performing certain actions. It…

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Python - Sending Outlook email from different address using pywin32
I have a working script that creates and sends Outlook emails successfully through pywin32, but I would like to send the email from a different, generic account. I have access to this generic account (and password) and even have the mailbox opened…

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User Names and White-Spaces
In past many years I have registered on various applications and platforms hosted online or offline.
Why white-spaces are not allowed in User Names as spaces are very natural to names and most of the computing systems can handle them…

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iOS developer program : Individual vs Company
This might seem to be a trivial question. I need to know, if I register my company under the iOS Developer Program : Company , worth $99 and I can now add developers under the same company.
My question is, do these developers also need to have iOS…

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Different values returned by ulimit -r
I added to my system-wide /etc/security/limits.conf the following two rows:
* soft rtprio 55
* hard rtprio 55
After a system reboot, I get two different results according to the way I access my user account on the…

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PayPal Adaptive Payments - Error 520009 - Account is restricted
Apologies in advance if this is a silly question. I did try digging around, but couldn't find an answer.
I'm trying to set up a chained payment (at the sandbox environment), but am getting error 520009 (Account is restricted). Tried several email…

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mysql.user table on mySQL
I use mySQL on Mac OS.
I login mySQL by the command
mysql - u root
then run the command below
select User from mysql.user;
It show the table below
+---------+
| User |
+---------+
| root |
| root |
| |
| root |
| |
|…

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