A user account may be protected from malicious use by means of a password or other authentication method. Often a user account is created along with a personal (and sometimes restricted) space on the system's storage medium. User accounts are commonly created by the system's administrator but other ...
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Outlook “Mark as Read” Rule Not Working After Migrating to New User Account
I had several rules set up in Outlook, all worked fine, but I just recently switched to a new user account on the same machine and ever since then, my rules have not been working 100%. Most of my ...
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How do I log out of all Stack Exchange accounts at once? [migrated]
So far I've started using Super User, Stack Overflow, Ask Ubuntu and Photography on the Stack Exchange network. Every time I log into one of them (with Google ID) and go to another one of these four ...
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Changed user account name, but the old one is still valid
On Windows XP, I changed my user account name but still the old user is working. I even changed the computer name and ID to my name, but everywhere I can see the old user name.
When I log in and ...
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Prevent Windows 7 User Accounts from accessing files in other User Accounts
I'm trying to set up another User Account on my Windows 7 Professional laptop for use by another person. I do not want that person to have access to any of the files in my User Account on the same ...
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How to access a shared folder on Windows XP (advanced file share)
Information:
Server name: HSERVER (Windows XP SP3 Professional)
PC name: UPC (Windows 7 x64 SP1 Professional)
I have a folder, shared in Windows XP, with the advanced file sharing.
Permissions have ...
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How to restrict non-admin users' permissions in Windows XP
I set up a couple of limited user accounts in my machine and I would like to restrict some of their rights, such as:
Not being able to access a specific directory
Not being able to change the system ...
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2answers
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Start/Stop Service when User logs in/out
I have a system user that is dedicated to my work. At work I need postgres, however I don't need it anywhere else. Is there a way to start the postgres service when the user logs in and stop it when i ...
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2answers
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How to disable internet connection only for some standard user accounts in Windows 7 Ultimate?
There are many users in my machine with Windows 7 Ultimate installed. Some of them are standard user accounts that have no administrative access to the computer. I want them to be unable to connect to ...
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Schtasks can't run .bat file in windows server 2003
I have a problem with running a .bat file in windows 2003. If I change the user to Admin, I can run it without any problem, but with SYSTEM as user, it will not run. The command is:
SCHTASKS /Create ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2: change account type from command line?
I have a need to add a user to a Windows Server 2008 R2 box, and make that user an administrator. Basically, I want to automate the second step of this process:
1. net user MyUser password /add
2. ...
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run as “NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM” is ideal for scheduled tasks?
I have a backup / autoupdate process for my software, and usually I create a new user for running it in task scheduler (most users don't have a password, and task scheduler needs it, don't know why).
...
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Create a “postgres” user account on OSX?
I just made a mistake: I installed PostgreSQL on Mac OSX 10.6.7 and when I wanted to connect to it I did su postgres, then it asked me for a password and I did sudo passwd postgres to change the ...
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How do I start Chrome using a specified “user profile”?
I use the new built-in "Users" feature of Chrome to switch between Home/Work accounts easily. However, Chrome remembers the "last" user profile you had selected when launching new windows. This is a ...
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Remove password on OSX / Creation of that user
As much as I would like to figure out the problem, at this point too much time has been invested in deleting a stupid key when I already had a solution (the command line creation) that works. I'm ...
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1answer
57 views
Giving a user permission to the /home directory
I am using CentOS 5.x. I would like to give a user permission to write on the /home directory. Do I have to make it a sudoer? Or is there any other better way for that?
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1answer
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Executing Commands at Cmd Prompt Result in “Access Denied”
I am running Windows 7.
Whenever I try to run commands like 'ping', 'ipconfig', 'taskkill', 'tasklist', etc from the command line I get an "Access is denied" message.
I checked the "Advanced ...
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about managing my network passwords on XP computer
I have a question about stored user name and password on XP pro computer.
if you go to control panel - user accounts -pick the account name and there is an option to click manage my network ...
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1answer
104 views
Windows 7 enterprise lock out; only displaying admin user
I was trying to set up a home network on my Windows 7 admin machine, to do this, I needed to log in as an admin.
The problem is, I restarted the computer and now only the admin user is being ...
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2answers
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Local XP account randomly locks
So there's a computer on my network at work that has a local account on it. This computer is on the network but not on the domain. The account is used to create gift cards. At least once a week ...
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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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If I purposely lock myself into a Standard User account, am I going to cause problems for myself later?
I'm an intermediate to lower-advanced level user --- I work in IT, do a bit of programming, etc. One of the things I'm a real stickler for in programming is "best" practices, or going out of the way ...
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dual monitor PC into dual station PC [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can two users simultaneously share one pc
I have a Intel Core i3 laptop, a set of extra monitor, mouse and keyboard, and what I want is to be able to support two ...
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login issue - .bashrc permission denied?
i logged in as root user and create a new user and set the password.
But i am unable to switch to the newly created user.
What is the permission problem of .bashrc file with root user?
# adduser -m ...
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finger command not working?
I am using amazon linux AMI on EC2 cloud.
chfn command is working fine and i am able to change finger information.
But finger command is not working.
Any clue to solve the issue?
# chfn testuser
...
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2answers
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How can I list all locked users in Linux?
How can I list all locked users in Linux?
usermod -L user_name
This command locks a particular user. Does Linux have any command that lists locked user?
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1answer
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GID for new user is not taking system default value 100?
New user is not taking system default Group ID. System default group id for new user is 100.
Whenever i create a new user, GID as well as UID increments by 1.
I can understand UID but GID should be ...
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1answer
83 views
The correct way to move /home to another partition on linux
I've moved /home to a separate partition, this involved creating and mounting the new partition, copying the old home directory over to the newly mounted one, editing fstab to mount the new partition ...
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1answer
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Opening a program as a different user (with /savecred) fails
What I'm trying to do is run a second instance (my personal account) of dropbox.
I have a second user account setup, Dropbox installed, the Dropbox folder on the second acct shared properly. ...
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Is it possible to alias a username on Linux?
I'm not sure if this has a practical application at all (aside from the fact that I am lazy. you know "christopher" has 11 characters, and I want to type 1), but is it possible to alias a username on ...
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1answer
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Change location of root's home directory
I would like to change the location of root's home directory from /root to /var/root. I used to be able to do this with usermod:
usermod -d /var/root root
However, with the latest version of ...
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Minimum user permission to assign service user for scheduled task that runs taskkill.exe
I've been asked to create a scheduled task that manages another scheduled task on a Windows 2003 Server. Both the initial task and the manager task are batch files. The manager task needs to kill the ...
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How do I change the password for an NNTP server in Thunderbird?
Running Thunderbird 8.0 on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.
I have an NNTP server that has public and private forums on it. I thus have two accounts set up, one for NNTP with no credentials, and one with a ...
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1answer
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How to delete an old (root) account on Ubuntu safely?
I have a user account with root access in my Ubuntu with username "A". For some reason, I created another account sometime back for myself named "B" and gave this account root access as well. Now, I ...
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Debian: get the login name from UID
What I need is something like:
$ who-has-uid 1000
cyrus
I know the file /etc/passwd contains such informations, I'm not asking a script that parses it.
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Only one user can't log into my Fedora 14
I have three users on my system
me
server
misc
From the GUI, I can easily switch between 1) and 3). However when I try to switch to 2), it asks for the password. The screen goes blank for some ...
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Account specific interface binding [closed]
Im looking to have applications started from different accounts automatically bind to a specific interface. for example: applications started on accountA bind to eth0 and applications started from ...
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1answer
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Create a New FTP User in Snow Leopard Without Creating a New Account?
I want to create a new user for my Snow Leopard's built in FTP but I don't want to have to create a new account on OS X itself. How do I do that?
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Can I create user shortcut in active directory
In fact I want to create shortcut for existing user for example I have two OUs name 1 and 2 inside OU 1 there is user1 and I want create shortcut for user1 inside OU 2? another meaning I want user1 to ...
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`adduser [options] user group` fails ubuntu 11.04
I'm want to use adduser
However it doesn't seem to work if I provide the second argument for the user's group
root@a:~# adduser rick staff
adduser: The user `rick' does not exist.
The group exists
...
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1answer
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Can't create user on Mac with dscl command
I was trying to create a postgres user using the command
sudo dscl . -create /Users/postgres
But failed. Got the following output
create: Invalid Path
<dscl_cmd> DS Error: -14009 ...
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1answer
102 views
How do I copy user settings to a Windows 7 machine?
I just got a new Windows 7 Home Premium x64 box at home and I'm going through the mundane task of setting everythig up how I like it.
Is there any easy way to copy all or some of my settings to other ...
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2answers
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Is there a way to require a USB thumbdrive token for my Windows 7 login?
I'm looking for something--hopefully a group policy--that allows me to use a usb flash/thumbdrive as my login, or as the second factor along with my password.
In a nutshell, I'm doing this because ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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What happpens to /etc/passwd- file when useradd command fails
I know that when a user is added using the useradd command, it creates a backup of /etc/passwd in /etc/passwd-, and then add the new user into the /etc/passwd. Suppose if by some chance the useradd ...
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3answers
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force user logoff script for Windows 7
Is there any way to force another user to logoff via command line in Windows 7 Home Premium?
My work VPN policy requires that there be only 1 user logged in, to log the other users off I have to run ...
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MacOS - Admin account requires password for every action
I am running MacOS Lion and have a user account that has Admin privileges (not the System Administrator [root] account). My problem is for every action I make the "enter password" popup appears. This ...
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1answer
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Does VPN affect all logged-in users in Windows 7?
If one user activates a VPN connection, and then another user does "switch user" and logs in, are they now also using the VPN or does W7 confine it to the account which actually started the program?
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New Admin user account password repetitively fails to login in Windows 7
Strange problem. From a Windows 7 Admin account I create a new user with admin privileges. Then I set a new password for the new account and log out of the original Admin account. Then I try to ...
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1answer
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List “normal” users Windows CLI
I would like to get a list of "normal" users in the Windows command line. By normal, I mean the users that appear when logging on to the computer. Thus, disabled accounts, accounts like System, and ...
