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A user account is a data object that represents a physical user of a computer system. Commonly, user accounts are represented as database objects.

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Meteor shortcut to get the profile picture for the currently logged in user, regardless of platform

There are questions about getting the profile image from Twitter, Facebook or Google, but it would be nice if there were a simple and extensible wrapper that returned the profile image regardless of the current user's account service.
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One instance application over multiple Windows user accounts

I have used solution of Mutex to disallow opening more than one instance of my application at the same time but, when i use Switch User in windows and open another user, and try to open the application, it opened normally and can't detect that it's…
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What is the standard with oAuth for remembering users?

Me and my colleagues developing an application (both web application and mobile app(iPhone & android)), which includes a login process. Currently, we have our own login mechanism (where users have signed for an account on our app, and have stored…
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NetUserAdd() successful, but user is "invisible"

I'm creating a user with the NetUserAdd API. It returns successfully, the user has a User folder and I can see the username with wmic useraccount get name. However, the created user is not visible under the control panel, nor on the logon screen. I…
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Min Security Rights to Preform LDAP Queries in Active Directory

Our company is trying to implement a few single sign-on applications using Active Directory (Windows Server 2003) and LDAP. I would like to lock down the account used to make these LDAP queries as much as possible. What is the best practice for…
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Having a Login ID and a PersonID in SQL

I am creating an application that will require a user to register and create an account. Should I use the person's Login ID (this is the email address) as the unique record identifier or should I also create a PersonID (or rec_id). Why should I…
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How do you invite another user to a "team" or "account" or "project" with Clearance and Pundit?

I have a Rails app with Clearance and Pundit and I'm trying to create "teams" where the "Team Leader" can invite other users to join their team. I would like to do something similar to devise_invitable, but with Clearance. Here is my plan for how…
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How do StackExchange sites associate user accounts and OpenID logins?

I love StackExhchange / StackOverflow's approach to integrating OpenID. As I understand it, the process goes something like this: If a user signs up with an OpenID provider (i.e. Google), StackOverflow (or similar site) creates an account for the…
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How to create a 'hosted zone' using a 'reusable delegation set' in another AWS account?

I have a route53 reusable delegation set in my AWS account A. I want to use it now to create a route53 hosted zone in my AWS account B. I can't figure out how to achieve this. Eventually I want to do it with terraform, but an aws-sdk or aws console…
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How to get user ID during user creation in Meteor?

I am creating default users on the server with a Meteor startup function. I want to create a user and also verify his/her email on startup (I'm assuming you can only do this after creating the account). Here's what I have: Meteor.startup(function()…
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CloudKit : How to handle account changes with local persistent store?

In my application i have to maintain a local persistent store in sync with cloud kit private database. So I just wanted to know how can I handle account changes that may happen. Confusion I have is as below: say a set of records belong to user A…
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How to create a daemon user account with install4j in Linux?

I have a Linux version of my application built with install4j and I do not know how to make the service run under a user account. Is there a recommended way to do so?
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C# how to identify a guest account?

In my c# winForm application I have to recognize if a guest account is running the application. Any idea?
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generating/ storing account activation code

usually on any website after you register they send you an e-mail with an account activation code, is there somewhere some information/best-practices about this technique ? like about how do you generate them, how do you store them, do you encode…
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Current password can't be blank when updating devise account

I am using devise and I want to allow the user to update his account (email & password). So when I click on edit_user_registration_path, I get a page where the user can change his email and password. But when submitting this update form I constantly…
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