Usually a personal account on a computer system that allows access to a system's (advanced) functions.
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How to validate windows domain credentials?
i want to validate a set of credentials against the domain controller. eg:
Username: STACKOVERFLOW\joel
Password: splotchy
Can I do this via the command line?
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1answer
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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
40 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 ...
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2answers
20 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
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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 ...
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0answers
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Merging two Google accounts [migrated]
I currently have two "general" Google accounts. I set up the first several years ago to use stuff like Calendar, Contacts and also Analytics. I didn't want to use it for e-mail, as I already have an ...
0
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1answer
33 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
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2answers
43 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?
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2answers
40 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??
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1answer
84 views
Is it true that Windows 7 or 8 user account password is a joke? [closed]
I was under impression that the user account password security in Windows 7 or Windows 8 has been improved by Microsoft since the old days of Windows XP, and that it is now virtually impossible to ...
2
votes
2answers
98 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
68 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 ...
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0answers
27 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
30 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
26 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
52 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
40 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?
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2answers
52 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?
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0answers
45 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
59 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
59 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
34 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
74 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 ...
1
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 ...
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0answers
47 views
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
66 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
42 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
111 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
63 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
117 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. ...
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3answers
190 views
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
18 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
128 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
votes
2answers
202 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 ...
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0answers
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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 ...
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vote
2answers
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How do I lock a user's password?
Most Linux distros I've used have a passwd program which can be used to do things like forcibly expire passwords, or lock them to temporarily prevent password-based login. OS X does have a passed ...
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0answers
43 views
How to sync/update NIS group and user information from other machine
We have around 10 Linux Ubuntu server machines using NIS/NFS.
I recently noticed that a machine showed a weird numbered user name, not real user name. And this probably makes some problems on a ...
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2answers
162 views
Issues with user profile that's redirected with a directory junction link
Setup
In my PC, C: is a 120GB SSD and D: is a 2TB HDD, so I've redirected my user profile / folder from C:\Users\%userName% to D:\Users\%userName% with a directory junction (mklink /j).
I've set ...
0
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0answers
23 views
Do I need a login id to get into this website [closed]
Do I need a login id to get into this website.
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vote
1answer
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How to find sudo password in Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3
I'm using Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 desktop. I don't know my sudo password so I'm unable to do sudo operations.
How do I find my password or change it?
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vote
0answers
52 views
Persitently map local folder to drive only for a single user profile
In our setup we need to map a local folder as a drive to get rid of the username in the path.
We used "subst" to map the drive and everything was fine.
Now we are migrating to Windows 7 and company ...
3
votes
1answer
40 views
Why join a domain (from user's point of view) if user can map drives and add network printers without joining? [closed]
I know policies can be imposed from a network administrators point of view to make things easier to manage and control, but what does a user lose out on by not joining a domain?
For example, let's ...
0
votes
1answer
132 views
Recover a user password on Windows Server 2008
Quick question. Is there a way to recover (find out) a users password on Windows Server 2008. I am logged in as admin and I know there are ways to reset passwords, just need to know if I can find out ...
0
votes
1answer
153 views
Can't access any USB drive Windows 7 though loggedin as admin
I work in company where some one had make changes in my pc. Because of this I can't access any usb drive, Windows detects usb drive but when clicked message pop out
F:/ is not accessible, access ...
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0answers
48 views
Adding multiple users to FreeNAS
I need to add a couple dozen user accounts for ftp access to our FreeNAS box.
Is there any way to accomplish this without manually entering each one via the GUI?
2
votes
3answers
95 views
Allowing only owner to edit files windows/ubuntu
I am not sure if this is answered elsewhere or it is too obvious but I need to have a folder that I create with a new user(admin) both on windows and ubuntu (wherever it is possible - preferably both) ...
1
vote
1answer
58 views
Connect to remote computer with another user account
I connected to a computer in our company LAN with an account (for example, user1). A login dialog appeared and asked me its username and password. Then, I checked a check box to remember the password. ...
1
vote
1answer
532 views
Change user account name in Windows 8 without losing desktop settings?
I have inherited the computer of a former employee. My office is on a small network. I log onto the domain with his old credentials. I have tried changing it in Control Panel under user account ...
