Questions tagged [user-accounts]
A user account is an access authorization to a restricted IT system. It consists mostly of a system wide unique user name an a password which are needed for authentication. IT systems use the user account to identify the individual user and grant him permissions which are associated with the user account.
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getent and id do not agree for freeipa user
I have a freeipa server with users which have different uid and gid.
For example, I have user alice with uid 1024 and gid 1026. User bob has uid 1026 and gid 1028. Yes, confusing, but that's how I ...
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Our server infrastructure has grown, needing way to administer passwords for Ubuntu environments
I am not a server admin, but our current server administrator left. So it has temporarily fallen on me to look after things. Our systems are currently protected by public/private keys. But when doing ...
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How to list mail adresses of active users on a Linux machine?
I'd like to get a list of mail addresses of all users, who are allowed to login. How can I do this?
I've set mail addresses in /etc/passwd using the GECOS field, i.e. via sudo chfn some_user -o ...
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Accounts are not locking out after multiple 4771 Kerberos pre-authentication failure events
This seems to be the reverse problem from most things I found on the internet.
I am seeing a large number of 4771 Kerberos pre-authentication failure events being generated and the error code is 0x18.
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Domain wide local admin configuration assistance
I've been tasked with reconfiguring our current local and admin account setup. Currently we have a single domain account we use for mostly any domain admin work we need to do (largely just UAC prompts)...
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Inquiry regarding Security considerations for Nginx Docker image
I am currently exploring the usage of an Nginx Docker image within our project. I am seeking more information about the security considerations and best practices associated with using your Docker ...
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Is there a solution to manage users in some systems or at least in linux?
I work somewhere with a lot of Linux and VPS servers. When someone joins the company, other staff members need to add his SSH key to each server; conversely, if someone leaves, all of his SSH keys ...
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How to change user without closing applications running?
The problem I have is that multiple users need to RDP to a machine to check the status of an application that is running. Normally, when users login/logout, the applications will stop and the user ...
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Windows Workgroup Application Installation Restrictions
I want to restrict the Windows Workgroup user to install the applications and i want to allow the user to install the specific applications. User will be having Local Admin privilage. Any solution?
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Limit Managed Service Account to only run certain service
I've started learning about Managed Service Accounts in Windows. As I understand it, such accounts make password management easier and the accounts can be limited to be used on certain machines.
You ...
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Microsoft account locks everytime PC goes to sleep, user cannot change password
In this case I'm a frustrated user asking as my company (who shall remain nameless) IT department seems unable to diagnose the issue with this, and my own web searching can't find anything either.
My ...
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Adding users from DC to remote desktop users
How to add a user from DC to allowed remote desktop users for certain PC?
It lets me choose only users on local machine, although I am connected with a user defined in DC server. A domain user. Even ...
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Apache Authentication - Find out user password
My field of expertise is far away from server management but I am currently covering for a former collegue of mine, so I apologize in advance if my question doesn't make sense.
I have to restart an ...
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User account auto-creation using SSH certificate authentication
My SSH server is configured to use certificate authentication, so it will trust anyone who presents a certificate issued by the user CA when they connect.
For reasons related with audit logs, I don't ...
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cant' delete user with userid 502, 503 and on CentOS 6
I have a CentOS VM that shows the list of users like this:
drwx------. 2 504 504 4096 Dec 10 2000 username
So if I try to run the userdeel command I got a message saying that the user does not ...
