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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How can I give my wife emergency access to logins, passwords, etc.?
I'm the digital guru in my household. My wife is good with email and forum websites, but she trusts me with all our important digital stuff — online banking and other things that require ...
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How do I start Chrome using a specified "user profile"?
I use the new built-in "Users" feature of Chrome to switch between Home/Work accounts easily. However, Chrome remembers the "last" user profile you had selected when launching new windows. This is a ...
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How can I create a non-login user?
I'd like to create a user and a group both called subversion on a RHEL 5 system. I looked at the man page for useradd and I guess the command would be just be...
useradd subversion
However, not sure ...
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List Samba users?
So yesterday evening I was pulling my hair out (figuratively -- I'm bald) for over an hour trying to figure out why smbpasswd kept rejecting my attempts to reset the password for one of my Samba users....
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mysql how to fix Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
Before I screw up something, when I login using $ mysql -u root -p, and show databases:
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql ...
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What is the "wheel" user in macOS/OS X?
I recently reinstalled iTunes and I noticed something peculiar.
The original version of iTunes has a user in the permissions known as wheel that is set to "Read Only".
I dragged this version ...
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How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?
I have cloned a WSL distro using wsl --export and wsl --import, but now, running wsl newdistro always logs me in as root. I understand that the lxrun command is deprecated and want to avoid it. The ...
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How do I find my user ID and group in Mac OS X?
Trying to run this compand in terminal:
sudo chown -R yourid:yourgroup local
However, I have no idea what my ID and my group are, or where to find them. Any ideas?
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Rename user's group name
I just did usermod -l login-name old-name to change the username, but the group name is still the old one.
Any way of renaming the group name? I can't find any info to do so.
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How do I list the groups that a UNIX user is a member of?
With pts m groupname I can list the users in a group. How can I do the opposite - that is, list all the groups that a user is a member of?
(I need this to find the name of a group that I know a user ...
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How do I create an administrator user on Ubuntu?
I want to create a user having sudo powers in Ubuntu. How can I do that?
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List all members of a group from the command line in OS X
I'’ve tried Googling but not getting anywhere. How can I list all the members of a group called mygroup from the command line in OS X?
dscl . list /groups
Will get me all the groups. But how can I ...
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Why do some system users have /usr/bin/false as their shell?
Why do some system users have /usr/bin/false as their shell and what does that mean?
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How to unlock linux user after too many failed login attempts
After trying to login with the wrong password, my account is locked. When logging in on a TTY console I get the following message
mylaptop login: myUsername
The account is locked due to 3 failed ...
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SSH permission denied on correct password authentication
I could successfully SSH into my machine yesterday with the exact same credentials I am using today. The machine is running CentOS 6.3. But now for some reason it is giving me permission denied.
Here ...
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