Questions tagged [users]
Anything related with user accounts and user management on Unix-like systems.
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Unable to access group files even though user is part of the group
I am trying to access a directory test as user ayush.
This directory is owned by user ayush and has group git
The directory has permissions 0070, and group git, and ayush is a member of that group.
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delete folder for all users on Mac
I'm using below command to delete folder
rm -rf /Users/*/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User\ Content.localized/Templates.localized/
The command is working only for single user. I want ...
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MESSAGE=anthony … USER=root <— Does this mean that the root user is the actual user but “anthony” will be displayed as being the user anyway?
I found this in /run/log/journal/...
MESSAGE=anthony : TTY=pts/10 ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/find / -name *systemctI*
I'm wondering what this means? I'm suspicious of this process "...
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Prevent FTP users from moving directories
I'm essentially trying to disable the mv command for FTP users on my CentOS server.
I was thinking of editing their .bash_profile file and using this:
alias mv=""
But that feels system breaking. ...
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How should I create a user that I can use to safely run web apps etc.?
I'm doing this over ssh.
I want to create a user that:
can't be accessed via ssh
can be impersonated with su
doesn't have a password (is this a good practice?)
can run web apps (specifically ...
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How do I switch users on Amazon Linux for EC2 instances?
I saw
How to change to normal user in the command line when logged in as the root user?
How to switch between users on one terminal?
I have access to sudo. I tried
[ec2-user@ip-172-99-99-99 Weekly ...
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User Lastlog login datetime did not update
I use lastlog to check latest login datetime. Here are steps I use to update my latest login datetime.
1) Try to Login to that user
sudo su userA
2) Exit that user and login to root then check ...
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Group membership reported by id vs. contents of /etc/group
I have some issues with permission from various apps (such as accessing serial ports, despite being the dialout group, or contacting to Docker daemon, despite being in the docker group -- I think) and ...
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Why is my service running as root
I have an old laptop hooked up to my router running as linux box. I installed qbittorrent to run as a remote torrent box (to download linux distros of course) and I created a new user, "qbuser" for it ...
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Script or makefile to automate new user creation?
I'd like to have either a shell script or makefile to automate new user creation. I can't decide which of approach is better - a script or makefile?
I have two types or users - both are SFTP chrooted,...
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Mass Assign Users to Groups
I have 2 text files, users.txt with a list of 1000 users and groups.txt with a list of 50 groups. I want to run a command that adds 30 users to each group (ex: users 1-30 to group 1, users 31-60 to ...
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FreeIPA User management: create user and activate user split in two roles
Objective: FreeIPA Helpdesk user A is permitted to create new stage users; new accounts are by default disabled. Activation requires any other member of Helpdesk than user A to go in and enable the ...
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How to preserve shell variables in script after changing user
How can I access same variables data after switching users? For example:
artifact=archive.tar.gz
workdir=/home/user
echo "$workdir/$artifact"
sudo -u otheruser bash
echo "$workdir/$artifact"
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Fedora 29 - Switching to new user using “login” seems to fail
I just installed Fedora 29 (Xfce edition). The uservc was created during installation. I created another user as user2 (with the password: u) from the terminal but I am not able to log in with user2. ...
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Avoid using sudo for starting/stopping services
I'm used to using sudo in order to start/stop services.
I'd like to add a capability to an user in order to avoid using the sudo command. I am using Ubuntu 18.08.
I don't know which capability nor ...
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Primary Group returns a number? [closed]
I'm somewhat sure that previously my primary group was something in text, but after running some stuff (I don't have admin, so I couldn't have changed it myself) all of a sudden my primary group ...
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Switch user providing own password
While switching to a privileged user, we enter the privileged user's password. Can I use my own password instead?
Current flow:
user1 -- > serviceAcctUser (serviceAcctUser password)
Required:
user1 -...
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Can't login as user
Everything works as root. I can startx, and get into iceWM.
I'll be using i3, but that works aswell through lightdm if I login as "other" then write "root".
Loging in in a TTY works aswell, but only ...
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Does POSIX guarantee certain usernames?
In the POSIX Definitions there is specific section 3.424, User Database, which defines what information should be related to each user ID. However through out the document, I couldn't find (at least ...
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User bypasses DenyUsers on Debian 8
So I have a user called spring and although my sshd_config says DenyUsers spring, I can login with PuTTY into that user. I restarted the SSH service of course.
The non-comment lines from /etc/ssh/...
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ID inheritance – Which IDs?
I'm learning UNIX file permissions / ID inheritance and would like to clarify something:
I have this list of permissions, users, groups and files:
-rwxr-xr-x userA A foo
-rw-rwsr-x userB B bar
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Communicating between userland and kernel space (KEXT) on MacOS
In order to make it easier to develop a kernel module, I am considering Loadable kernel modules (LKMs) on MacOS. This way you have a base kernel module and your main kernel module which is an LKM ...
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How to get notified of a USB plugin and manually specify the driver to use
I am trying to get at the bottom of how to intercept when a USB is plugged in, so that you can completely customize the experience of plugging it in and using it. Without anything else happening. That ...
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Keep access to a file after sudo
user1 runs sudo -u user2 SomeCommand. I want SomeCommand to be able to access the files of user1 (or just a specific directory or even a single file, if that's easier), without giving access to user2 (...
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Adding user to a group with correct permissions and access to directory still denied [duplicate]
I have a directory 'ad' with permissions: drwxrwx---, for devpro devpro
I added devst to devpro group with:
usermod -a -G devpro devst
If I use id command for devst I get:
devst
If I use ...
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ssh-copy-id ask for password
I created user and generated key with this commands
root# mkdir /usr/share/foreman/.ssh
root# chmod 700 /usr/share/foreman/.ssh
root# chown user:user/usr/share/foreman/.ssh
root# su user -s /bin/...
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What differences are between ways to prevent a user from logging in, by passwd and shadow files?
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/314732/674
In contrast to user accounts, service accounts often don't have a "proper" login shell, i.e. they have /usr/sbin/nologin as login shell (or, back in ...
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Folder group ownership permissions and problems
I have created a folder called /home/projects, to do this I had to use sudo mkdir /home/projects because it's inside the home folder.
Initially the folder had these permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 4 root ...
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how can i make a file in /opt/ which will be owned by 2 users, 3 groups and other should not have any kind of access [closed]
I want to know how I can make a file in /opt/, that will be owned by 2 users and 3 groups, and others should not able to access it.
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Shared sub-directory between multiple users [duplicate]
I have two users with home directories:
/home/user1/
/home/user2/
I would like to share a folder between the two users:
/home/user1/some/path/to/folder
but would only like user2 to have access to /...
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Does a user have to log in to run a process and become its owner?
In general, does a user have to log in to run a process and become its owner (ruid, or euid)? Does this apply to any user or any non-root user?
For example:
In the boot sequence of Linux, the kernel ...
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Set $PATH as OpenLDAP attribute
I need to set $PATH for OpenLDAP users (CentOS6/7). Not in .profile, not in .bashrc on client machine, but as attribute in LDAP on the LDAP server so it is set whenever the user logs onto any host via ...
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Is the www-data user pre-configured in Linux and Unix systems?
I personally usually use Debian based systems but I ask the following question on the entire *nix family of operating systems.
Is the www-data user usually using as the Apache/Nginx already comes ...
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whoami returns user, but usermod complains it doesn't exist
I have Linux (Ubuntu) on a VM provided by corporate IT in my organization,
and I have a user "myuser".
whoami is able to return the username:
myuser@host:/home/myuser$ whoami
myuser
id returns info ...
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Who have previously accessed a shared file?
I just discovered a mistake in the permissions setting of our system. It's kind of serious because it allows normal users to access something they shouldn't see. Currently the mistake has been fixed, ...
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How essential are usernames ( compared to uids )?
Background:
I recently read about a freedesktop.org-bug which allowed executing any systemctl command for uid > INT_MAX. Thus I ran:
root@host$> useradd -u 4000000000 largeuiduser
root@host$&...
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How can I switch users in GNOME?
I'm using Fedora 29 desktop and GNOME 3.30. When we had a Mac, my wife and I could share the same computer by just simply "switching users". It would leave the previous user still logged in.
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How do I create a new user and a new file in its directory?
I need to create a new user, and it needs to have a custom file named "config.sh".
what I do when creating a new user is:
sudo useradd –c "New User" –md /home/NU newuser –e 20/12/2018 –s /bin/bash –...
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How to properly set Environment variables (golang on Manjaro)
I have a problem with my go installation. I'm using Manjaro and I think it is related to this as Manjaro seems to handle the go env differently then suggestest by ubuntu and windows.
I have go ...
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Why is top command showing users that the who command is not?
Working on a Raspberry Pi 2, running Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch).
I am simply trying to understand why, when I run the top command I can see some users that I cannot see in the who command. Here ...
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What are necessary users used for
I want to know which users are necessary for an Unix/Linux system. Now I found a doc which told me that there were three necessary users: root, bin and daemon.
For the user bin and the user daemon, I ...
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How to add existing user to an existing group in centos 7?
I'm trying to add an existing user called Jim, to the current group called hoho, that I've created. I've looked up the command, and this is all I got.
useradd -g hoho Jim
Then when I checked to ...
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Allow www-data to read files from NFS share
I have a virtual machine in a larger Linux network (with unified UIDS/GIDS) that has mounted an NFS share from a fileserver. I want to run a small nodejs server application on that machine. For ...
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How could I find the Plan command?
I tried finger and find a Plan
$ finger $USER
Login: me Name: me
Directory: /Users/me Shell: /usr/local/bin/bash
On since Tue Nov 13 07:33 (CST) on console, idle 1 ...
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Is it safe to remove all user passwords except root?
Is it safe to remove all passwords (passwd -d) from users, including service users like apache, bind, and others, and keep only the root password? I suspect that a malicious user may have set a ...
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How to add a new user and disable its root login? [closed]
A sysadmin may want to add a new user that will have no root access (nor sudo).
I don't sell hosting services but I can bring this field as an example; an hosting company gives its customers the ...
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BASH: Check in /etc/shadow if user password is locked
Objective: Check in /etc/shadow if user password is locked, i.e. if the first character in the 2nd field in /etc/shadow, which contains the user's hashed password, is an exclamation mark ('!')
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Newly created user on Ubuntu Server has the wrong shell prompt
I've created a new user in the Ubuntu 18.04.01 like this:
sudo useradd svn
sudo passwd svn
sudo mkhomedir_helper svn
sudo usermod -d /home/svn -m svn
Problem is, that if I switch to the user by su ...
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When using cloud-init, what order are the users created in?
I am using cloud-init to initialize a RHEL Atomic Host VM.
I have the following as my user-data file:
#cloud-config
groups:
- ourgroup
users:
- name: muser
primary_group: ourgroup
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sudo -su vs sudo su -
On RHEL 7.5, I created a non-root user and would like to switch from one non-root-user to another non-root-user, without password.
First tried, sudo -u user1, command syntax error
then tried, sudo ...
