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.
Questions tagged [user-accounts]
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How can I rename a Unix user?
I have a user named hedgehog and I want him to be named squirrel, but I don't want to change his numeric user ID.
How can I accomplish this?
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What's the best way to see logged in users in Windows Server 2012?
Right now I use a powershell script to see the currently logged in users. But I don't see if their session is idle, active or inactive. I can see when the session was started, that's it.
Is there an easy way to see how many users are currently…
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How to delete domain user profile from a computer?
I'm wondering how to safely remove a domain user profile from a computer that is a part of a domain. I don't want to delete the account from the domain itself, I just need to remove the profile from this computer, to do some cleanup.
I'm currently…
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Best Practices in Username Standards: Avoiding Problems
I'm interested in finding out what people's experiences with standard usernames is. I've always been in places that used {firstInitial}{lastname} (sometimes with a length-limit). Now I've users that want {firstname}.{lastname} - and now it comes up…
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What characters should I use or not use in usernames on Linux?
I want to create user accounts named after a domain name. adduser complains that the usernames need to match the NAME_REGEX regular expression.
adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
via the NAME_REGEX…
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Any difference between DOMAIN\username and username@domain.local?
I'm trying to troubleshoot an obscure authentication error and need some background information.
Is there any difference between how Windows (and programs like Outlook) process DOMAIN\username and username@domain.local?
What are the proper terms…
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What's the difference between 'useradd' and 'adduser'?
What's the difference between useradd and adduser? When/why should I prefer using one or the other?
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How do admins maintain user accounts across hundreds of linux servers?
Dealing with hundreds of RHEL servers, how can we maintain local root accounts and network user accounts? Is there an active directory type solution that manages these from a central location?
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How can I copy MySQL users table from one server to another?
I'm setting up up a new MySQL server and I'd like to give it the same set of usernames, allowed hosts, and passwords as an existing server (which is going away).
Would it work to just do a dump of the users table and then load it on the new…
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Wget: Is there a way to pass username and password from a file?
Is there a way to pass the username and password from a file instead of the command line via --user and --password?
Background: I want to run wget via cron and don't want the username/password show up in process view
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Trying to add a new SQL Server user throws the error "is not a valid login or you do not have permission”
I am trying to add a new user to an SQL Server 2012 database using SQL Server Management Studio. I right-click and select 'Add User' under Security -> Users, fill out the user information, and click OK. Management Studio throws the the error…
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Command line active directory query email address for username
On Windows XP in an Active directory environment - what is the easiest way for me to query a user's email address from AD given their username on the command line.
(Assuming I know where it is kept normally in tree).
(I know about net user…
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What does the Windows 7 local group Power Users actually do?
A client wants a new bit of software. Typically they are on the cusp of signing a contract before they happen to mention it to IT in passing.
A skim through the technical requirements show nothing extraordinary, except that all users of the…
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Adding an existing user to a group with puppet
Is it possible to add an existing user to a group with puppet 2.7.18?
We have two modules, each one defines one class :
module "user" creates all users, including user foo and user bar.
module "subversion" deals with various conf files and creates…
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Managing access to multiple linux system
A searched for answers but have found nothing on here...
Long story short: a non-profit organization is in dire need of modernizing its infrastructure. First thing is to find an alternatives to managing user accounts on a number of Linux hosts.
We…
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