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Are People using Batch Watermarking Softwares or Just Photoshop [closed]
There are many software's offering to watermark your images in Batch without individually selecting the images.Are you using this kind of paid softwares or just doing it with Photoshop manually.Are ...
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How to give full access to a folder for everyone?
How to give full access to a folder for everyone?
Is there any way to do it programmatically, using a .bat file or a script?
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Windows XP SP3 user profile issue
I am fixing this for a co-worker:
The machine is Windows XP SP3, and according to them, the machine was reset (appears factory reset) after dealing with their ISP to upgrade their router. The ...
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How can I find out how much memory a person uses on Linux?
Is there some utility for linux (ubuntu) which keeps track of things like how much memory on average a person uses?
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user activity monitoring
I'm a sysadmin for a small network and want to monitor user activity. Is there a good/standard software I can use? I'm not looking for keylogging but would like to see where they are spending most of ...
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Backup/Logging - Active Directory
Hey I'm using Active directory on a network with around 150 users, all members of different groups with different policies etc.
it would be a huge problem for our network if e.g. by mistake an admin ...
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adding a user to a webserver
How can I setup a user on my Ubuntu 10.04 VPS so I can login through FTP and upload .php .html, etc files. I know the default path is /var/www but I'd rather not login through root and upload to ...
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cygwin: ~ != $HOME
When I start cygwin, my ~ dir is the same as $HOME. After some time, ~ dir changs, while $HOME stays the same. I am puzzled by this, not sure where to look. Maybe someone experienced this, or has some ...
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Hide or Delete the User Home Folder in Windows Explorer Navigation Pane
I am using Windows 7. I don't like the User Home Folder in the Windows Explorer navigation pane. In fact, I don't like the folder itself. I never use it, per se, and it comes up sometimes as an ...
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Adding application to new user
I have created a new user using standard priviidges using MAC OSX but safari comes up just a ? Icon how can I make it available to new user ?
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Windows User Profile 'StarKeith.net' moving e.g. 'send to', 'templates', 'start menu' shortcuts etc?
I used the StarKeith.net method to "Move my Windows User Profile to another Drive" but the user profile 'shortcuts' won't move, copy, drag etc.?
...these are: 'send to', 'templates', 'start menu' ...
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Access other users with admin via SSH
I have the admin password to a remote computer(mac). How can I access another user that I do not have the password of?
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How to determine the user and group of a deamon in Ubuntu?
How can I check the user and group for the nginx daemon in Ubuntu?
Or what's the syntax to find the user and group for a deamon running in Ubuntu?
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Incorrect password for Linux user
I am unable to log into a regular user account using a password, so I first change the password to something I know...
As root,
passwd theUser
put in the password: thepassword
it states it ...
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Keeping users inside their home directory
I have a fresh install of CentOS and I'm currently setting up users. Their home directories reside within /home/username/ and I want to make it so that they cannot ls or cd outside that area when ...
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Linux - Limit user's ftp access to home directory
I have created a user in linux (User1 for the purpose of this question). I have changed User1's home directory to a new directory. I would like to ensure that User1, when FTP'ing, cannot browse out of ...
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User Authentication [closed]
Is there any free or commercial service that would allow me to implement user authentication (user registration and management) for my static website using just javascript embed code?
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Windows 7 fonts folder asks for nonexistent Admin
I can't open or add to my fonts folder... I'm asked for "trusted Installer" a user which (as far as I can tell does not exist.
Additionally, it also crashes Windows Explorer every time I try to open ...
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How can I ban a user from accessing my router?
How can I ban a user from accessing my router – or how can I end his session?
My router is a D-LINK DI-514.
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How to export and import an user profile from one Quassel core to another?
I'm using for quite a long time Quassel as my bouncer for IRC.
We (a group of administrators of a small network) have set up a shared Quassel core with many users on the same core.
But now I would ...
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Login to a windows (domain) user account when not connected to internet
When I am on my local network I log into a computer that is added to a domain. This creates a local user profile with my documents, desktop etc. Problem is that I am unable to login to this account ...
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List of current logged on users, from list of PCs
From a list of computers (IP address, or hostname), is there a tool I can use to build a list of the currently logged on user for each computer?
I have a tool which can do this but used all computers ...
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Increasing the user space on windows XP machine
I have a problem with user space on XP. I have a machine with 3GB RAM and my application needs more memory. One solution would be increase the RAM to 4GB and switch on the 3GB Switch.
Right now, I ...
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How to alter output from the 'who' and 'w' command?
I don't want my users to see each others ip's/login info so I want to alter the output when they use the 'who' and 'w' commanda to hide that info - is there a way to do this?
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Cannot log onto new accounts - “The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded”
I'm on a fairly new install of Win 7 x64 with default UAC settings. I recently had to delete a user profile due to the win 7 2012 virus issue, but when trying to create a new profile (any profile ...
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What is the windows XP equivalent of 'User Choice' in the registry?
What would the windows xp equivalent be of deleting the key 'User Choice' in windows7/vista registry (to restore default program to be used to open a partcular file extension).
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How to display user defined message on the browser after blocking website using hosts
I am using the hosts file for blocking websites, and when we try to open that website the browser shows some default message, but I need to display my own message.
Is there any possibility for ...
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windows 7 restrict file access
If I want to restrict the access of a folder to myself only, and considering I am the owner, can I leave the Users and Everyone groups in the ACL or do I have to remove them ?
If I remove these ...
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set user's PATH variable without admin access in XP
I have two related questions for XP variables; it may end up the same method works for both of them. I as a user want to modify my Path but lack the admin rights necessary to change it. I imagine ...
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How to set userinfo as HTTP-header on apache-reverseproxy?
I have configured my apache for a simple authenticated reverse-proxy, which works fine. Now I want to set the userinfo as a http-header. like:
<Location /somehost/>
ProxyPass ...
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Unix User Group or Sudo/Su
I am in a situation where I have to chose between unix user groups or sudo to tackle
an issue.
To give some background,
A Linux app is installed as user X. The installation copies some scripts and ...
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How do I copy a file/folder from another user's home directory in Linux?
I want to copy a file/folder from another user's home directory to my home directory in Linux.
I cannot access his directory, because it says permission denied. I'm 100% sure that a file can be ...
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How do I modify the short username in OS X?
I have modified my username from Supreeth to Sagar R Kothari. But I feel that it's not applied in most of the places where it's used.
The username Supreeth is found in each new project (e.g. project ...
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Assign Port to specific user
I need to be able to assign specific ports to a given user to listen at. Say I have user X, I want him to be able to only listen on port 500. User Y only on port 501. How can I do this? Im working on ...
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Is it standard practice to make a user's profile Documents and Settings and Local Setting Read Only and Hidden?
Is it common practice to make a user's profile Documents and Settings and Local Setting "Read Only" and "Hidden", e.g from a Systems Admin perspective? In my experience, this is rare, however I work ...
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How to SSH to localhost without password?
EDIT: Putting exactly what was done.
I need to SSH to localhost without a password, the usual way of doing it (with public keys) do not work.
user@PC:~$ rm -rf .ssh/*
user@PC:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa ...
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Can I resume an existing vim process?
When I left work yesterday I left vim open with the files I was working on. I'm working from home today, so I VPN'ed in, and when I go to edit those same files, I get the warning that there's another ...
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Adding everyone to local group using vbscript
What would be an alternative in vbscript to
NET LOCALGROUP /ADD "Power Users" Everyone
I know how to add a single group or user but Everyone isn't found.
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Is Remote\username same as ComputerName\username or username in windows 7/xp?
Is there any difference if I log in as:
username
computername\username
remote\username
domainname\username
something\username
I want my computer to behave differently depending how I log in. Is ...
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Linux: Is there a non-root shell command to find if a user account is enabled or not?
Is there a non-root shell command that can tell me if a user's account is disabled or not?
Please note that there is a fine distinction between LOCKING and DISABLED:
LOCKING is where you prepend ! ...
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Permissions: Why do I always have to type 'sudo' before every command?
I'm editing theme files in a wordpress site owned by www-data:www-data as my main user 'oma'. Every time I create a file or edit one, I have to use the sudo command and it gets created as root:root. ...
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While adding a new user in Microsoft Office 365 stuck at a results step
Recently I have signed up for Microsoft Office 365 and while trying all different features of this product, I wanted to share some documents with my friend so I decided to add a new user.
I have ...
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Directory Group Issue?
I have a directory that needs to be owned by nginx user and I need to access it via other users in order to add/edit/delete files in it.
So I created a group called www and added both then chgrp -R ...
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Run Tomcat Service as Different User on Windows 7
I have installed Tomcat6 using the 32-bit/64-bit Windows Service Installer download version. In the setup instructions, it is recommended that "For optimal security, the service should be run as a ...
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Restrict user to delete 1 folder, add/change/delete files in that folder
I want to limit delete of a particular folder in the user's home folder
and to restrict any add/change/delete on files in that restricted directory.
/home/myuser
/home/myuser/_protected //no delete
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How will IPv6 impact everyday users? (World IPv6 Day)
With the current (one hour in at the moment) trial by all the big boys (Google, Facebook, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) I wondered how IPv6 will effect home users and the Internet as a whole.
Will the change ...
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My main User directory is gone, how can I get it back?
If I open up my hard drive and navigate to Users, my main account is not there. How can I get it back?
In retrospect I realize it has been gone for a while, but since it still appears in the Sidebar ...
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Create a Windows XP user from a linux partition
Long story short, someone repaired my brother's computer and set a password on his account, now we can't get in and can't contact the person who set the password.
Is it possible to create a Windows ...
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User activity monitoring open source software
I was wondering if there is open source project similar to this commercial product SpectorPro : http://www.spectorsoft.com/products/SpectorPro_Windows/entry.asp?refer=12080
I have been using it for ...
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run application as domain user from VPN
I am connected to a VPN as a domain user.
I would like to run a local application as the domain user from the VPN instead of my local workgroup user.
If i select run as different user and insert the ...
