Anything related with user accounts and user management on Unix-like systems.
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Another account with same uid as root gets prompted to set new password for root, not itself
After upgrading the os from 5300-06 to 5300-11, this weird behaviour happened.
My system had another unix account, let's call it "abc", purposely configured its uid to 0 for working as a root with ...
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How do I add network or user source connection data to history entries?
I would like to modify the history settings for all users on the systems that I manage.
I would like it to contain the information from the connecting terminal like from who
sysadmin:/ # who
sysadmin ...
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How to mass change password attributes in AIX uname -rv=3 5 for all users but root
I want to do a mass change on all users but root in AIX for the following "password attributes":
Weeks before password reuse: 15
Password min length: 6
Can it be done, or do I need to do them one ...
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What is the proper solution to a web server trying to write to a directory?
So, I have a box with a "deploy" user. This deploy user owns a code repository and wordpress is running on this box...
When wordpress attempts to do something like upload a plugin, it is using the ...
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Limited SSH user on Ubuntu 12
I'm running Minecraft on a server. How can I give my friend SSH access just to the minecraft folder (a root folder), the screen command, and some ports?
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Trouble with dbus and systemd/user
I have systemd set up so that using systemctl start user@me will start my user services as I expect, but my dbus one just won't go (which I need for PulseAudio).
Is there some way I can check dbus or ...
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What user installs a .deb package?
I am experiencing a behavior in the installation of a .deb package that I don't really understand.
I have a set of "things" in my computer that I deploy to remote computers using a .deb package. I ...
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security concern around adding cron user to web application group
I have a permissions issue on my CentOS 5.6 machine with regards to the cron user.
On my test/staging environment my cron user (picco-cron) is a member of one group - picco-cron, as below:
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Will a account get locked while logging in FTP mode to a remote server whose password has already expired in UNIX
I have a FTP user id to a remote server, the password for which has expired.The account is getting locked if connection is being made in FTP mode to the server with the old(expired) password. Is ...
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recommended procedure to create a user/group during RPM install
after trying hard to search for RPM best practices guides and finding virtually none, to my surprise, I resort to the community -
I need to ensure that some users and groups exist after the ...
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Creating a Safe Web Server
Web server hosts multiple websites. Multiple users update each website.
User home directory
/home/user1
/home/user2
Web directory
/var/www/site1
/var/www/site2
Each user uses SFTP to upload ...
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GUI user management software?
When I was using Fedora and derivatives, I remember using the system-manage-users GUI to change user settings such as adding a user to a group.
Right now I am trying Debian derivatives such as ...
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Buildroot: Unknown own user
I crated an image with buildroot. Everything went smooth. When I untarred the bz2 image in vmware and tried to boot into it then I observed an issue, in which, system is unable to recognize any user, ...
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How to switch user if the Screen is Lock
Sometime this happen that when I had to do something on server I find that the screen is lock and I dont know the password of that user to unlock it and switch the user.
So i need to know that How to ...
