Questions tagged [user]
A user is a person who uses a computer or network service.
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Default groups associated to a new local user (Windows 10.0.17763)
I'm working on a standalone Windows 10.0.17763 (no AD)
C:\Windows\system32>systeminfo | findstr /B /C:"OS Name" /C:"OS Version"
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise N
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How to scare people when they touch my laptop screen?
I would like to discourage people from touching my screen.
I have a touch screen laptop, and sometimes people come to explain stuff to me, and point out with their fingers and touch my screen. I ...
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How to configure Samba to use the password found in /etc/shadow instead of its own database, for one particular user?
In /etc/samba/smb.conf, I already have the following set for ages:
unix password sync = yes
Yet, I have a user which his samba password is different than that found under /etc/shadow. I suspect ...
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System Permissions macOS 10.15 Catalina
As Apple locked user access further with 10.15 Catalina, after 20 years using Apple systems I held off on updating as my work requires access beyond what Privacy settings allows in System Preferences. ...
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How can I duplicate a mac user account including username and password?
I have an account on my friends mac that I would like to move to my mac, so is there any way to duplicate everything in that account, including username and password? By the way, I am using OS X ...
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How do I create a file as a user and then modify it as another user?
I have a script that does an "su - oracle" then runs exp. I need to store that file to a directory /app/dumps that the user "backups" has access to read + write the file.
What's the proper way to ...
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user account for SMB
is it possible to create user accounts under windows just for home network sharing?
I don't want the account to appear in the list of login windows. I don't need it to have its own set of folders, ...
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How do you prevent a NET USER /domain vulnerability?
I discovered a vulnerability in my network;
(bear with me as I'm only about 2 weeks into the job and still in training).
Any end point user (regardless of permissions) can issue a NET USER /domain ...
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How to restore the local drive "C:\" to it's default permissions?
I changed my permissions on local drive c:\ and now many applications/system things not working properly. i was wondering how can I restore How to restore the local drive "C:" to it's ...
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Azure database for postgresql: change the owner of a table without using the super user
I'm working on a PostgreSQL v10 Database created in Azure. This database has several users including:
myuser: user used by a web application. Has limited powers;
myadmin: admin user created by azure ...
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I want to run 7z from a github action runner with a different user/password
I am running 7zip to zip some files in an app server as part of a github action. the github action runner does not have access to the server I am zipping , can I run 7z as a different user which has ...
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Wrong User OWNER on folder or file: docker run -v <host_path_dir_file>:<docker_some_path_dir_file>/ -- Not working for user defined in Dockerfile
Host OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)
Guest OS i.e. a Docker container running: OpenSuse 15.2
Docker Version (on Host): Docker version 19.03.5, build 633a0ea
On host, when I git ...
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Mac OS X, how to add a Domain user to a Local Group?
Trying to add Active Directory domain users to a local group in Mac OS X. The Mac is bound to the domain. The group of users is not a group on the domain, so I created a local group, but need to add ...
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Userid variable issue
I got 2 commands issue if let say my userid = testing computer it will grab testing instead of testing computer. If my userid = testing i have no issue with it. Anyone can assist how can I fix this to ...
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Revoking anonymous access to Artifactory
I've inherited an Artifactory server, and there is sensitive information stored in some of the repositories that shouldn't be accessible to a non-authenticated user.
According to this link in the ...
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How Can I Determine When a USER last restarted a windows pc
I would like to know when a USER last INTENTIONALLY restarted a windows machine. There are other posts relative to this but the source of the restart is not clear to me. Thank you.
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Cannot run batch in Task Scheduler when security optons set to "Run whether user logged on or not"
@echo off
rem Note: This file is an alternative launcher for DocFetcher. How to use it:
rem 1) Modify this file as needed.
rem 2) Move this file one level up into the DocFetcher folder.
rem 3) ...
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Duplicating a chrome user (incl. bookmarks, passwords etc)
I sometimes need to open the same sites on different sessions for testing purposes.
Until now I did it with an incognito window, but I'd prefer if it was through a different chrome user, which is more ...
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VSCode Freezes Kali
I am running Kali Linux on a Chromebook from a Live USB flash drive with persistence. (I installed it according to the instructions on their site—nothing fancy, no shenanigans.)
I recently installed ...
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Oracle user - read only to any tables
I'm trying to add a user with read-only permissions to all tables. The problem is that after connecting to the database by SQL Developer, the tables (empty tab) do not appear on this user. Select on ...
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in MacOS what is the purpose <user>.blank folder and subfolders?
I'm thinking the user.blank directory is created and added to when a new os version is installed. Does anyone know the actual purpose; is it safe to delete?
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Share CPU equally between users (not processes) in Debian?
Can I share the CPU equally between users (not processes), in Debian? For example, I have two users, I want each to be able to use 50% of the CPU - even if one user has one process running and the ...
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Workgroup Logon
I have a two XP SP3 PC's in a LAN which:
Are on their own Workgroups.
Have NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled.
Have the windows (or 3rd party) firewall disabled.
Have file and printer sharing installed and ...
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How am I logged on as a user, when the user doesn't exist in "user accounts"
I logged onto a Windows 7 machine with the username MDC. When I do a "whoami" command it says cityfire\mdc, which I assume means on user "mcd", on "cityfire" domain. But if I look in "user accounts"...
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Linux user cannot login with a password but remove the password and he can
I recently helped someone recover from a lost root password (boot cd), but there is something strange going on. i can add a new user and login as that user. then set a password for that user (as the ...
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Remotely lock a computer
I provide temporary computers to businesses but sometimes they are very slow on letting me get them back.
I was wondering if there was any way I could have a computer receive a command as soon as it ...
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windows autologon in background
I have a domain connected Windows 7. On this pc two domain users can connect. One is my personal user that I currently use, the other is a user that I need in order to remotely launch tasks on this pc ...
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Network Sharing Problems Between 2 Laptops
Tried enabling network sharing on both laptops with LAN cable and wireless connection but only 1st laptop is able to access its own User under Network and User of 2nd laptop. The problem is that 2nd ...
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Can't switch to all users in WIN 8 - search extended user control
I'm using Windows 8 (not PRO) and I created different users (as local or MS user). But in the "normal" user control center (e.g. control nusrmgr.cpl) I get only two users.
I found one day a page ...
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How to find out the available (and used) user resources?
With ulimit, we can find out how many open files, running processes etc. at most the user can have at the same time. My question is: how can we find out how much of these limits are being used and how ...
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Logging into a hidden user account remotely on Windows 7
There are a lot of tutorials/articles to create a user account in Windows. In fact, they are just hiding the particular user name from the logon screen. But I want to create an user account that ...
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Attempt to connect to wireless internet at home and i am asked for User Credentals, nothing I enter works
I just got a new modem and am trying to connect my windows 7 desktop to the new wireless connection. I had no issues on the three previous connections I have used, but for some reason when I click on ...
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Creating an account/access to an VServer for a PHP/MySQL/Apache developer
I normally work with my server on my own, but now I have an external developer with whom I have never worked before. I need to work with him for a longer period of time before giving him full access ...
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Share Application Program for All Users on Windows 10
Just setup a Windows 10 Laptop, I have one base account which is administrator and 2 user accounts to be used by two other users.
I installed an application ( Scratch Desktop ) from base user account ...
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Can .profile file be deleted in a Linux system?
I recently added a user account in linux system. The system created a folder with the user name and also a file called .profile within the folder.
My question is this. Can it be deleted and the user ...
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I added a standard user but I can't switch user or bring up an option to log into standard user
I have an administrator account on Windows 10. I added a standard user. However, I never get an option to sign in to the standard user. On bootup, only an administrator login screen comes up. On ...
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Windows 10 laptop is loading the wrong desktop every time it reboots
After rebooting a laptop, the entire desktop changed to a different one and many apps got uninstalled. From what I've been able to gather from my friend, it seems like they forced it off by holding ...
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How to uncompress files "user" in c drive
So I did this thing without knowing the consequences.
I went to the
local c drive > User folder > left click the file > attributes > Click advanced > clicked "compress content to ...
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create a single task user in windows
I have a program that I want to run automatically whenever a specific user logs in to their Windows account.
Additionally, I only want my program to run and nothing else, like the desktop or Windows ...
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Why isn’t any Windows 10 Pro autologon method working?
I have setup a Windows 10 Pro computer with local GPO and registry edits that is meant to be used only for internet browsing. So, I configured it with two local user accounts besides the main ...
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Logout from NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM user?
I was trying to troubleshoot one of our client's computer and restart it.
For some reason, it logged in automatically to nt authority\system and i'm not sure how to log it out and come back to its ...
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What linux user does eclipse run Linux commands as?
Linux running as user x executes Linux commands using runtime.exec. What user does the command run as and how can one tell?
Yes. Eclipse running as root won't execute sudo -n commands passed into java ...
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Have Excel move user input into another sheet and clear the original sheet
I did quite some looking around trying to find a solution for this but came up empty.
What we are trying to do is build an excel file that basically has 3 sections. We want to use it to monitor the ...
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Automatically run as a different user, using the special interface
I want to run a program as a different Windows user, protected by a password. Now, in my company, there is a single-sign-on system where if you can enter a PIN attached to your email, it will ...
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How do I abort Windows signoff (while signing off)
During a maintenance task on our Windows 2016 server, something triggered the user from being signed off.
The problem is that this user is running business critical software (as user).
This software ...
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Powershell script to get and send all Jenkins job's details for last 15 days as attachment
I am new on Jenkins and I wants powershell script to get the details of all jobs of Jenkins for last 15 days. I will send that details of Jenkin's jobs over mail to my Manager.
I have tried below ...
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Creating a club in Clubhouse for Win10 Club fails with error "Sorry, you can not create a club yet"
I have installed the Clubhouse app for Win 10 app I have my second user in clubhouse, so I am trying to make one club in it and get the below error:
Sorry, you can not create a club yet
If possible, ...
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How can i give permission to a user, so can write, read and delete on all the folders?
I am configuring a server with dirrent aplications on it, but for accessing by ftp, i can't use root user, so i made another one to acces from filezilla, but i noticed that i have no permission to ...
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User Account Missing
I am on Windows 10, and I performed a Windows Update, and then after the computer restarted, my user account was empty, all my personal files are gone, nothing in the documents, desktop, downloads. It ...
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User and virtual environment in ubuntu linux
Hi I'm new to linux and currently I'm using ubuntu as my linux distribution. Right now I'm confused about user in ubuntu and search online about it. I found article about it in digital ocean that says ...