A user account is a data object that represents a physical user of a computer system. Commonly, user accounts are represented as database objects.
Questions tagged [user-accounts]
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How to create a Chrome profile programmatically?
Development, testing, staging environments are controlled via different proxy servers in my setup. I want to script creation of multiple Chrome profiles (sometimes called "user" or "person") and connect to a different proxy server for each of them.…
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Facebook Dummy Accounts For User Interaction Testing Being Banned
I am software tester working on outsourced projects for many clients.
Frequently, I am required to test Facebook apps just before they go live. Often, the content of the app requires several interactions with other Facebook friends, including…
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Build a Better Access Control System
I'm in the process of a building an access control system as part of a web framework I am developing. I want to make it super flexible and awesome. Can you help me by providing input and insight on my design? Here is my work so far (my specific…
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Consuming own API for web app - Authentication process with OAuth2
Overview
I am currently in the process of creating an API for an image sharing app that will run on the web and sometime in the future, on mobile. I understood the logical parts of API building, but I'm still struggling to meet my own requirements…
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What is the nodejs equivalent library of the ruby gem 'devise'?
Looking for a nodejs library that can help make the process of creating user profiles easier for a web application
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Detect dashboard of WooCommerce "my account" pages
How can I detect if the "myaccount/my-account.php" template is used on the Dashboard.
Currently I use:
query_vars['page']) ) {
?>
Back to my Account
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Account verification: Only 1 account per person
In my community, every user should only have one account.
So I need a solution to verify that the specific account is the only one the user owns. For the time being, I use email verification. But I don't really need the users' email adresses. I just…
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How can I get Primary Email Account of Android phone?
I am working on a project, and I have to fill the EditText automatically with the user's primary email, I am considering primary email as the email that associated with google play store. I have read this post and implemented that.
If we are using…
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Social Network (Facebook, Twitter, etc) User Account Integration (duplicate scenario)
So there are definitely many tutorials out there regarding how to integrate various individual social network authentication/registration into existing user accounts. But the scenario I can't seem to find out much information about is if a user…
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Gitlab account acces error: "422 The change you requested was rejected."
This question asked by coderss but restarting the computer seems to noneffective.
422
The change you requested was rejected.
Make sure you have access to the thing you tried to change.
Please contact your GitLab administrator if you think this is a…
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create local user account
i have this code to create a local windows user
public static bool CreateLocalWindowsAccount(string username, string password, string displayName, string description, bool canChangePwd, bool pwdExpires)
{
try
{
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How to know whether an user account exists
How do I know if an user account exists on my Windows OS (Vista)? I need this information from a stand alone machine that hasn't joined any domain.
I want to know whether an user is a part of a group, for example is a user 'admin' part of…
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Adding Local User to Local Admin Group
I am writing a C# program to be pushed out the labs I work in. The program is to create a local admin account(itadmin), set the password, set the password to never expire, and add the account to the local Administrators group. The program creates…
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Use of /etc/passwd-, /etc/shadow-, /etc/group-
In addition to the files : /etc/group, /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, I could see three files in my linux machine.
/etc/group-
/etc/passwd-
/etc/shadow-
I cannot see these files in my root filesystem. But when I try to add one user using useradd…
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Best practices for data deletion on user account termination
On a site that has a fair share of user-generated content such as forum threads, blog comments, submitted articles, private and public messaging, user profiles, etc; what is the best practice as far as what to do with the user-generated data if a…
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