Usually a personal account on a computer system that allows access to a system's (advanced) functions.
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Windows 8: error when trying to create new user
When I try to create a new user the Settings app, at the end of the process I get an error that says:
We're sorry, but something went wrong. This user wasn't added to this PC. Code: 0x8007089a
I ...
0
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1answer
17 views
Chroot from android into environment as user
I'm trying to use my android tablet as a dev environment. So far I have created an Arch and Ubuntu img. I can chroot into both just fine and I have created a user using adduser, but I do not know how ...
0
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1answer
31 views
“The requested operation requires elevation” when using Admin login
To start things off I am using a PC on a network with my own Active Directory login, but when I say Admin Account I mean I'm using the network's AD Administrator account.
I'm trying to edit my Hosts ...
1
vote
1answer
34 views
How can I change the user icon in Chrome Browser?
I have more than one user in Chrome Browser (chrome://settings/ Add new user) and can't find out how to specify a custom icon for each user. Chrome allow me select an icon from a list of icons set, ...
1
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1answer
36 views
What is this None user in Windows 8?
What is this None user in Windows 8? It isn't one of my accounts. This is a question that is ogooglebar.
0
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1answer
36 views
Why there is no sudoers file: “/etc/sudoers: No such file or directory”?
I am trying to add a new admin user, but:
# adduser username admin
adduser: The user `username' does not exist.
# man sudoers
No manual entry for sudoers
# less /etc/sudoers
/etc/sudoers: No ...
0
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1answer
26 views
Deleted admin HKLM\Software\Microsoft\ and now there is no admin on the system
One of my colleagues has deleted the registry stuff related to the Administrator account on his PC and now he cannot see the "Administrator" account on the Windows machine!! There is just a "Guest" ...
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31 views
Rename user folder in Windows 8
I just bought a PC with Windows 8 and am struggling to get to grips with it. When setting it up I entered the name Signon which was the wrong name. I then went into the users part of the Control Panel ...
0
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1answer
30 views
Can I use Windows 7 and 8 on the same partition to share users' files? [duplicate]
I was wondering if it were at all possible to completely wipe my laptop's hard drive and then create two partitions, one at the beginning (after the system partition) with 200GB, and the rest of the ...
1
vote
1answer
14 views
Unix User groups permissions
When I try to run an application I have 'moved' by zippping + unzipping from one host to another it says :This program can only be executed by users in group 1002.
Can Anybody please decipher what ...
0
votes
1answer
42 views
Can I create a user without specifying a login name
Can I create a user without specifying a login name, and let GID used for it's login name?
I read the man useradd(8), but this command seems to require a login name be set.
Any GUI way or script ...
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votes
1answer
26 views
How to remove online accounts created with your Google account? [closed]
I'd like to close my Google account but I used it for lots of sites, with which I used it to register. I don't even remember most of the sites I used my Google account for so is there any way to ...
1
vote
1answer
35 views
How to share a bookmark folder between two google chrome profiles
Use case: Google Chrome I have a work profile and a home profile, and both are synced with google's mothership.
The problem is, sometimes I want to bookmark something while I am using the first ...
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votes
1answer
60 views
What is System32\config\systemprofile?
So I recently figured out that IIS will use C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile as it's "user" directory for folders like AppData in certain situations.
Now, I'm trying to understand why this ...
0
votes
2answers
60 views
How to validate windows domain credentials via the command line? [duplicate]
I want to validate a set of credentials against the domain controller. e.g.:
Username: STACKOVERFLOW\joel
Password: splotchy
Can I do this via the command line?
0
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2answers
28 views
Ubuntu group permission how to change
How do I change the permissions for a specific group that I have created?
Say for example I create four new users named Anna, David, Carl and Eva and I also create two different groups which I name ...
0
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1answer
38 views
How to change user name on Cygwin
When I first installed and ran Cygwin,
my username and PC name appeared at the beginning of the prompt, like
Johm@John-PC ~
The problem is, there was a typo in the account name when I first ...
4
votes
1answer
49 views
How to set different window managers to different users under Linux
I want to restrict different users to different sets of window managers. For example,
user A: openbox, fluxbox
user B: openbox
user C: openbox, fluxbox, metacity
How can I do it?
Additional ...
1
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2answers
26 views
restrict windows administrator access right
i have an administrator login to a windows 7 PC, i want to make a folder for a non-administrator user, and make this folder not viewable by me (administrator), is it possible? if so, how to achieve ...
1
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0answers
29 views
Giving privilege with expiration in Windows 7
I have asked this question in security.stackexchange.com, but I was unable to get anything useful. So I am re-posting it here.
In parental control I can restrict the games, applications, and also set ...
0
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1answer
48 views
How to recover Windows 8 authenticated users access if denied for a particular folder
I've got Windows 8 and trying to restrict access to a particular folder on my D: drive for other user accounts, and set permissions for the authenticated user group in security tab as denied. Now I ...
1
vote
2answers
70 views
How do I find my user ID and group in Mac OS X?
Trying to run this compand in terminal:
sudo chown -R yourid:yourgroup local
However, I have no idea what my ID and my group are, or where to find them. Any ideas?
1
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2answers
57 views
How to backup a user profile and restore it in Windows 7?
I want to install a fresh copy of Windows 7, and remove the old one.
How can I backup and restore my user accounts to the new installation to be as the old ones??
2
votes
2answers
272 views
Can't unlock linux user account
I've got a Linux box (OpenSuSE 11.3) with a locked-out user account. I logged in as the root account to unlock it with passwd -u <user>, but I get a message 'Cannot unlock the password for ...
1
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1answer
74 views
multiple users of the same name in windows 7
Recently while going through the users folder in my C: drive, I found out that I had an extra user which I had not created but had the same name as the name of a existing user on my pc, with a little ...
0
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0answers
29 views
How do I force a process to stay on even after logging out or move process out of user-space memory?
I am quite often uploading various big files to various websites with my web browser on a slow connection and not every website support resuming of the upload.
Now my lsass.exe process consumes ...
0
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0answers
41 views
Windows 8 pc user login delay
We have windows 8 pc& auto-login is enabled in that pc ( Settings done in registry). It was working till 4 days back without error. But now, only welcome screen is coming at the startup( User ...
0
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0answers
36 views
Windows 7 hangs on login to one user account only
I get the continuous spinning blue wheel in Windows 7 64-bit when I start up in just one user account and I can't access the task bar nor the Windows Start button. Other accounts don't have this ...
0
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3answers
54 views
What types of users can I use with “sudo”?
I thought you could only use sudo to temporarily become root:
sudo vim /etc/resolv.conf
But recently I saw a shell snippet depicting a user using sudo to become a specific user:
sudo -H -u devops ...
1
vote
1answer
67 views
Multiple user accounts from same client on network share?
My Win7 professional client has a connected network drive to the server with cached login (user/pw) data. How can I connect to the same server as a different user simultaneously?
0
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2answers
59 views
Auto Logon Windows 7 Upon Initial Boot While Still Protected by Password [duplicate]
I have a Windows 7 machine currently. I am writing a script which will always be running. Basically, it checks to make sure a program is open, and if it's not, it opens it.
However, when my computer ...
0
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0answers
14 views
Windows 7 Connect remotely to 1 user account without bothering the other account [duplicate]
I'd like to setup remote connections on windows that will allow me to open and use a second user account without bothering the first user.
Can you please help me out with this one?
0
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0answers
67 views
Unable to create guest account on Win8 tablet
I'm trying to create a guest account on a Dell Latitude 10 - ST2 running Windows 8 Professional. The machine is primarily used in our company's domain but we need the guest account to be assigned to ...
2
votes
1answer
60 views
Set up Windows users that can only write to a specific folder
I bought a new Windows 7 PC and I want to create three user accounts, which should have no permission to create anything in the C drive or on the desktop. The only place where they're allowed to write ...
0
votes
1answer
75 views
users not found in /etc/passwd
I login to a linux box with username user1 and my home folder is in /home. There is another user named user2 that has its home directory in /opt/data/folder.
If I want to check the list of users I ...
0
votes
1answer
46 views
What does: “The procedure entry point StiCreateInstanceA could not be located in the dynamic link library STI.dll” mean?
I keep getting this message on start up: "The procedure entry point StiCreateInstanceA could not be located in the dynamic link library STI.dll" (only on one of my user accounts on my computer). That ...
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votes
1answer
90 views
User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded After system reboots from crash [closed]
This is a strange one, I attempt to logon to my windows 7 PC and it logs in fine, but any process that then gets focus crashes and the system resets itself.
Once it has rebooted you can not logon ...
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vote
2answers
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Linux: Find out who was logged on when?
I need to find out which user screwed up the ssh config.
There's nothing in anyone's bash history.
But I did see when a bunch of ssh-related errors in the logs that started at a specific time.
I'm ...
0
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0answers
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OSX Server - LDAP / pwpolicy - How to disable a account?
For some reason, Apple is great at just changing the syntax or path of (insert random feature here).
And thus, I'm having trouble disabling (not locking a account, that seems to work fine by setting ...
1
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0answers
75 views
Is it possible to start all programs with admin privileges?
These days I'm having problems with "Run as Administrator" for most of my executables like Visual Studio, Command Prompt and sometimes even Notepad. It started with Visual Studio having problems ...
0
votes
0answers
23 views
Setting Up Quotas issue (Linux)
i am trying to set up Quotas, there are many tutorials that i have found out there but its seems that i have a problem with filesystem.
I am trying to open /etc/fstab
and these are all of its ...
0
votes
1answer
52 views
Enable Remote Access Linux
It might sound very basic question but I am beginner on Linux...
I have created a few users on my Linux distribution. I would like to enable Remote Connection through SSH for some of these users not ...
0
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1answer
170 views
Windows 8 email account setupwith Verizon.net
I know that have the correct information but Windows 8 says it cannot find settings for my account. Incoming Server seems to be hard coded for IMAP and Verizon is POP3. What do I do so set up my ...
0
votes
1answer
75 views
Duplicate Windows 7 User Profile to a new user
Is there a way in Windows 7 to copy all Windows user profile information (especially desktop and UI settings, including profile picture) from an existing Windows user to a brand new user.
So let's ...
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votes
1answer
145 views
To enable the administrator account from the standard user account [duplicate]
I have exactly the same problem as was already described (by Rajendra Rathore): "... I removed my user account from administrators group and my default administrator account was disabled by default. ...
0
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3answers
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Is it possible to disable aero on Windows 7 without admin rights?
I want to disable aero, however I don't have admin rights the admin has blocked Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization and I haven't found another way to do it, does anybody ...
0
votes
1answer
20 views
In Snow Leopard, how to prevent other users of my machine from seeing my files?
How do I setup users on my MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard) such that the along with having different work spaces, each user has secured folders and files from other users?
4
votes
1answer
167 views
How do I remove a user account which is invisible on the logon screen or user manager for Windows 7 Home Premium?
I am running a Windows 7 Home Premium machine with one administrator and one standard user for my son (14). My son has a standard account limited by parental controls for web content (porn etc.)
My ...
0
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2answers
296 views
Login to server through PuTTY and then switch user
I am using the following batch file to log in to my server as root:
start C:\Putty_all\PUTTY.exe -v -ssh root@192.168.32.125 -pw password
When I have logged in, I want to change user to oracle. How ...
0
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0answers
188 views
Windows 7 How to create a new account from command prompt?
My computer was damaged (Windows can't find Desktop path/profile after Hard Drive Repair) and now I can't use my administrator account because I get this message:
Failed to connect to a ...
