Questions tagged [user-accounts]
Usually a personal account on a computer system that allows access to a system's (advanced) functions.
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Admin account lost in windows 11. (To continue, enter an admin username and password)
I have updated to windows 11 and I wanted to delete oracle so after deleting the registry files I tried accessing users and groups from computer management but was unable to delete the db user. By ...
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How is the user function in windows meant to be used? In public PCs should i log in with my windows(outlook) account? Or it was not intended for this?
I have windows 11 22h2. I've my outlook user account. I was wondering how should I use it when using friend's PC, public PC? Should I log in to my windows username? or is it not intended to be used ...
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How to mount disk for user when a new user account is create on a linux cluster?
Suppose there is a linux HPC cluster with 100 computer nodes whose users are managed by OpenLDAP. What I want to know is when I create a new user in LDAP, I can mount a specific storage for that user ...
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Windows 10 through university, graduated and lost access to login, no admin account
I downloaded windows through my university to a personal PC. I think it was windows 10 education.
After graduation they removed access to my connected accounts and I didn't realize that the PC login ...
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How do I make a single program not ask for admin perms for another user?
Here's the situation: My son and I share the same computer, I have the admin account and he has a regular user account. He plays Genshin Impact and every time he wants to play he needs me to input my ...
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User profile cannot be loaded, after creating new standard account
I am trying to create a standard -not administrator- account on my Windows 10 PC. The account gets created but, when I try to sign-in, I get the error "The User Profile Service service failed the ...
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Issues when Windows 10 Account Username Includes Space
In most versions of Windows I have used, and currently using Windows 10, having a space within the account username poses problems, particularly with paths and when the input doesn't accept a path ...
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How to change the group of a file generated by my python codes on Linux server?
I belong to multiple groups (AAA, BBB, CCC, and etc.) on a Linux server. And I wrote a python code that generates a file on the server. When generated, this file belongs to group AAA, by default. But ...
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What happens to default user files stored in D:/ when the drive fails?
So, on my office pc (win10) I set my default user docs to be in D:/ and not in C:/. I worked like that for 8 years storing my design files predominantly in 1 folder "Design". This year my D:/...
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Cannot add child account to Microsoft Family group
My child has a Gmail account, and a Microsoft child account linked to the Gmail account, viz., the Gmail address is the Microsoft account username. I am trying to add the child's Gmail account to my ...
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Windows 11: prevent everything except administrator account access to D drive?
I am trying to protect my system after I have experienced being compromised.
So I made a local account which is standard user. I want to use this account for my work and restrict it's access to the D ...
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WSL 2.0 Ubuntu: Relocating home directory
Within Ubuntu on WSL 2.0, what is the way:
to mount Window's c:\lhome to Ubuntu's /lhome, and
to have /lhome/username (Windows c:\lhome\username) as the home directory for username?
All programs ...
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How to access files on Windows 10 machine/hard drive without password? Can't restore or access from putting the HDD in another PC
My partner has an old work computer she has personal files on. She has been using a new laptop for some time and seems to have forgotten her password to the desktop, or it just won't connect to the ...
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Windows 10 user is acting up
My Windows (not necessarily Microsoft) account has been malfunctioning lately. It takes some seconds for the internet to activate, and various Microsoft-related apps (such as the Microsoft Store and ...
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Is it okay to remove unknown accounts from /etc/passwd?
Accounts like lp, bin, daemon, ftp, etc. look like legacy accounts that I won't need on my servers but are installed by default.
Is there an easy way to detect which accounts are required? I see ...
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