Questions tagged [users]
Anything related with user accounts and user management on Unix-like systems.
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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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Samba 4.7.1 multiple shares and access (CentOS 7.5)
I have started a file sharing server based on Samba 4.7.1 and CentOS 7.5
My goal is to setup private shares for groups or single users and one public share with only to read permission.
I made ...
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How do I create a new user and a new file in its directory?
Introduction
I need to create a new user, and it needs to have a custom file named "config.sh".
Question
So far what I do when creating a new user is:
sudo useradd –c "New User" –md /home/NU ...
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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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Script that displays information about most used processes
my script is
`echo 'CPU:' | ps -eo pid,%cpu,pmem,vsz,time,command --sort=-%cpu | head -1`
echo 'VSZ:' | ps -eo pid,%cpu,pmem,vsz,time,command --sort=-vsz | head -1
but I dont know how to write the ...
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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 ...
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How a non-root user sudo to another non-root user without password?
As root, created a new non-root user on RHEL 7.5
appuser:x:1903:1903:appuser:/home/appuser:/bin/bash
A non-root user to be able to sudo to appuser,
sudo -u appuser
without a password,
What are ...
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RHEL 7.5 - How to remove user from a group?
usermod does not have an option to remove user from a group
Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN
Options:
-c, --comment COMMENT new value of the GECOS field
-d, --home HOME_DIR new ...
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How to use service to start/stop app with non-root access?
RHEL 7.5
Currently installed an application as root in /app. As part of administration, application will start/stop using /sbin/chkconfig & /sbin/service utilities
All the application binaries ...
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Websocket server won't connect if started via PHP
I have a websocket server written in Node. The following instruction, when executed from the command line starts the websocket server successfully:
nohup "/root/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.1/bin/node" "/...
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Can a user reside in one group, but write from another? [duplicate]
We have group Apache and, let's say, "District" group.
All our team members are part of "District" group.
Apache user is part of "Apache" group, and does a lot of work on our server, creating and ...
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Changing a user's password within a script doesn't work [duplicate]
For reasons I want to change a user's password to a random one every X minutes using a script. It's a debian machine, the following script is started via @reboot in root's crontab and the script is ...
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User accounts and groups exist but don't exist
I'm running a clearos server for my dad's home business, it was all set up and working completely OK, no issues with the fileshare or group permissions.
Now my dad is telling me that the fileshare is ...
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find last 15 users that logged in - even if some of them already logged out
i need to find the last 15 users that logged in to the system.
i know there are commands like 'w' or 'who' or 'users' but as much as i know those commands refer only to users currnetly logged-in.
but ...
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Start interactive bash session with custom config without saving it as a file
I have a string variable that I want to use as a bash rc file (contains aliases and shopt commands), and start a new bash session as a different user. Something like this:
sudo su - myuser --session-...
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Is there a way to protect a file in any way so that other superusers CANNOT modify, delete or overwrite it?
Due to keyword hell I can't find the answer to this question and I'm hoping someone can let me know what the answer is.
When entering a sudo command file is there a way to set a parameter(s) which ...
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configured ldap server rhel 6
I successfully configured ldap server on rhel 6 first time using the steps available on net.But I am not much aware about ldap server.
I created two users user1 and user2 on ldap server.and
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Why different command scripts are used for the same command when run as a normal user and when run as a root user?
I see the script location for the command date for a normal user, it shows
which date
/bin/date
But when I run the same command from root it shows the output /usr/bin/date. Why so ?
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Grant full root permissions to an user
In /etc/sudoers i added:
%myuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Now if i type sudo apt update i don' t need to type the password.
But i want full root permissions: namely, i want to use only apt update.
The ...
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ypcat passwd not able to list if the user has 3 digit user id
I am trying to migrate nis server from solaris to redhat(7.5), as per the doc I have exported /etc/passwd and /etc/group from solaris to redhat and made NIS up and running.
If my /etc/passwd is e.g.:
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SSH configuration: chown username:group: says invalid user
My Ubuntu16.04.4 server has username: graycodes
THE ERROR OUTPUT:
chown: invalid user: 'vagrant:vagrant'
I'm setting file permissions for OpenSSH.
What I'd like is to keep my username as ...
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How to retrieve information of a user?
After running below commands,
[root@u87 ~]# getent group somegroup
somegroup:*:2441:someuser
[root@u87 ~]#
[root@u87 ~]#
[root@u87 ~]# cat /etc/group | grep somegroup
[root@u87 ~]#
[root@u87 ~]# cat ...
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Unable to add entry in /etc/group
Ran below commands to create a group
[root@u87 ~] # groupadd -g 2441 somegroup
groupadd: group 'somegroup' already exists
[root@u87 ~]# cat /etc/group | grep somegroup
[root@u87 ~]#
[root@u87 ~]#
[...
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useradd with no options
When I create a user with useradd (no option) I can later add his passwd by using passwd new_user.
How can I create his correct home directory (with Desktop and Templates inside) and all other ...
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Where to store proprietary code and executable scripts? [closed]
I have Python code that is run using a bash script. I want non-sudo users to be able to run it without making the Python code readable. What is the recommended pattern?
Two ways I considered:
Put ...
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Switch back and forth between chroot jail and Host in the same terminal
I have a created a chroot jail in my Ubuntu 14.04 machine using schroot and debootstrap.
Now I want to write a shell script that goes back and forth between my native environment and the chroot.
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Are there any practical reasons for setting a maxlogins limit for users in limits.conf? What are the benefits?
Why should I set a maxlogins limit in /etc/security/limits.conf? In other words, are there any performance-related and security-related benefits to be gained?
I have only three users on my machine, ...
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Creating users own “root” [closed]
So my goal on this is to give each user their own "root" by basically making a loop drive with a copy of core files. I know there is stuff like jail shell, and all that fun stuff that makes it a bit ...
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Can't log in to other users on a debian system
I can't log in to KDE, as other users to the GUI on my Debian systems only the user created at install.
I can log on in the command line:
su - user
into the users login but only in the shell.
I ...
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In `/etc/passwd`, can different usernames for the same user ID have different group IDs?
From The Linux Programming Interface, about /etc/passwd:
It is possible (but unusual) to have more than one record in the
password file with the same user ID, thus permitting multiple login
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Can a superuser process change the real user ID and group ID of a process, not matching those in the password file?
From APUE
The real user ID and real group ID of a process identify who we really are. These two fields are taken from our entry in the password file when we log in. Normally, these values don’t ...
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Can't access folder with group permissions
It seems that I can't access a folder on which I put 777 group permissions, even though I am a member of the folder's group.
Error detail :
10:57 ~ $ ls -l
d---rwx--- 2 laurent www-data 4096 août ...
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Is there a recommended way to access files owned by a non-user UID?
Suppose a multiboot computer on which two GNU/Linux distributions are installed, each with its own user(s). Say those users don't share the same UID over the two systems.
Now one needs to access the ...
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Temporarily restrict logins for a user to a single IP
Background
I have a bunch of Raspberry PI 3 devices running Linux, which are shared among multiple engineers. For the sake of simplicity, each Linux box has the same default username/password (i.e. ...
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how to re-mount a home directory of a specific user to a partition
My system is Ubuntu and there are three users on it. Also, I have some partitions: /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdc1.
For now the whole /home directory is mounted on the /dev/sda2, the whole root / ...
