Questions tagged [user-accounts]
Usually a personal account on a computer system that allows access to a system's (advanced) functions.
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How can I give my wife emergency access to logins, passwords, etc.?
I'm the digital guru in my household. My wife is good with email and forum websites, but she trusts me with all our important digital stuff — online banking and other things that require ...
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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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How can I create a non-login user?
I'd like to create a user and a group both called subversion on a RHEL 5 system. I looked at the man page for useradd and I guess the command would be just be...
useradd subversion
However, not sure ...
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List Samba users?
So yesterday evening I was pulling my hair out (figuratively -- I'm bald) for over an hour trying to figure out why smbpasswd kept rejecting my attempts to reset the password for one of my Samba users....
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mysql how to fix Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
Before I screw up something, when I login using $ mysql -u root -p, and show databases:
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql ...
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What is the "wheel" user in macOS/OS X?
I recently reinstalled iTunes and I noticed something peculiar.
The original version of iTunes has a user in the permissions known as wheel that is set to "Read Only".
I dragged this version ...
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How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?
I have cloned a WSL distro using wsl --export and wsl --import, but now, running wsl newdistro always logs me in as root. I understand that the lxrun command is deprecated and want to avoid it. The ...
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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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Rename user's group name
I just did usermod -l login-name old-name to change the username, but the group name is still the old one.
Any way of renaming the group name? I can't find any info to do so.
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How do I list the groups that a UNIX user is a member of?
With pts m groupname I can list the users in a group. How can I do the opposite - that is, list all the groups that a user is a member of?
(I need this to find the name of a group that I know a user ...
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How do I create an administrator user on Ubuntu?
I want to create a user having sudo powers in Ubuntu. How can I do that?
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List all members of a group from the command line in OS X
I'’ve tried Googling but not getting anywhere. How can I list all the members of a group called mygroup from the command line in OS X?
dscl . list /groups
Will get me all the groups. But how can I ...
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Why do some system users have /usr/bin/false as their shell?
Why do some system users have /usr/bin/false as their shell and what does that mean?
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How to unlock linux user after too many failed login attempts
After trying to login with the wrong password, my account is locked. When logging in on a TTY console I get the following message
mylaptop login: myUsername
The account is locked due to 3 failed ...
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SSH permission denied on correct password authentication
I could successfully SSH into my machine yesterday with the exact same credentials I am using today. The machine is running CentOS 6.3. But now for some reason it is giving me permission denied.
Here ...
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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, ...
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List of Hidden / Virtual Windows User Accounts
I’m trying to find a way to get a comprehensive list of user accounts on a Windows 7 system, including hidden ones. The User Accounts dialog (>control userpasswords2) only shows the normal user ...
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Do I have to provide an email for a local user on Windows 10 Pro?
I'd like to create a user on Windows 10 that is just a username and a password, no email, no MS communication.
Reason? No particular reason. I don't feel like providing an email, or creating an ...
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How to determine the user and group of a daemon 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 daemon running in Ubuntu?
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What's difference between group admin and adm?
There's two similar groups in ubuntu: admin and adm, I found that /var/log/apache2 is in the adm group, and default sudoers includes admin group.
What's difference between the two?
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How do I add Azure Active Directory User to Local Administrators Group
With Windows 10 you can join an organisation (=Azure Active Directory) and login with your cloud credentials.
Based on the information provided here the first account per computer that joins the ...
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Why is the output from `groups` different from `groups user` if Im currently logged in as user?
Im not sure why the following have different output. My understanding is that groups without specifying a user give all the groups the currently logged in user is a member of.
jacob@box:~$ groups
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Windows 10 - Users already logged in at boot
Since the recent Fall Creators Update I'm facing a strange behavior while using Windows 10. My brother and I are using different accounts, both protected by password. When I turn on my PC and sign in, ...
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How to get rights of admin after I disabled all admin accounts in my computer
I accidentally disabled my admin account.
After I login to another account I found I can not get admin rights, because all admin accounts on my computer are disabled.
I clicked on 'run as ...
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Why does Nvidia create UpdatusUser account and is this a security issue?
While doing a backup I have found out the existence of an account called UpdatusUser on my Windows 7 box.
It doesn't appear in the account management section of the control panel.
Searching on the ...
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Is "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" a user or a group?
In Windows the user System is displayed with the group symbol:
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(Using the internal Win32 API LookupAccountSid also reveals that it seems to be a group SidTypeGroup.)
On the other hand processes can ...
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usermod equivalent for Alpine Linux
I'm building a Docker container, and I need to add my user to a group. usermod is not available in Alpine Linux by default. Apparently, you can add shadow from apk to install usermod, but I would ...
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Why don't my users have separate desktops in Windows 10?
I have a family laptop where I have created separate users for my kids. My user is an admin, theirs are not. I had assumed that having separate users would have separate desktops. But I have installed ...
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Can two users simultaneously share one pc
It's easy to have multiple user accounts on one computer and even switch between accounts without logging off. It is also possible to have more than one display connected to a single computer.
Is it ...
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Samba+Windows: Allow multiple connections by different users?
I have a machine running Ubuntu with Samba that I use to share stuff with my family's Windows machines in our local network. Currently they access a share for movies/music/etc with one user.
I want ...
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How to add a domain user to Administrators group in Windows 10
I just reinstalled my work computer to Windows 10 Pro, created a local account, connected to our VPN, joined our domain and logged in with my domain account, no problems so far.
Since the local ...
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How do I change the User Profile location in Windows 10?
The default location for User Profiles are C:\Users. I would like to move this location to another drive (i.e. D:\Users). I've already been able to customize the library locations, however there are ...
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Why is the guest account missing/broken in Windows 10?
In older versions of Windows and even in Windows 10 previews you could enable the built-in guest account in control panel
Control Panel\User Accounts\User Accounts\Manage Accounts
In Windows 10, ...
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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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List members of a Windows group using command line
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 ...
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How to grant remote desktop right to a user in Windows Server 2008?
I create a user and add it to group Remote Desktop Users but I cannot still remote using mstsc. The error message said the user/group doesn't have the right to remote.
My question is how can I grant ...
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Hide users from Mac OS X Snow Leopard logon screen
Somehow, I managed to set a passwd for my _postgres user on my OS instead of setting it on the postgres role I have as my superuser / root. Anyways since this, I've been struggling with that user ...
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How to determine logged on user in Windows XP?
What's the easiest way to determine the logged on user in Windows XP (without loading any support tools)? I'm looking for something similar to the 'whoami' command but for Windows. I need something ...
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How can I get the unix group name based on the group id?
How can I get the unix group name based on the group id?
Note: looking in /etc/passwd or /etc/groups is not a solution as some systems may be using NIS so the users and groups are not listed there.
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How do I change a user name in Windows 7?
I have an install of Windows 7 that I've already put a few days into. Today I realized I've made a mistake in the username and it's driving me nuts (my personal OCD).
While changing the physical ...
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Settings can't be opened using the Built-in Administrator account in Windows 10
In Windows 10, when trying to open the Language preferences by using the icon on the right side of the taskbar, "Settings can't be opened using the Built-in Administrator account in Windows 10" error ...
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Hide account from login screen but can be used in UAC
So I have a Windows 7 home machine with 2 user accounts. One is a standard user account and one is an administrator account. Now this is going to be put in the hands of a very low-tech user so I don'...
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Changing domain name - major security issue
I'm considering changing my domain name, which I've had for the past ~5 years, for a couple of reasons:
Prices have gone up nearly 50% of the tld I'm using.
I want to switch to .com
During the years ...
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Locked out of Windows 10: login no longer shows Administrator, but only an account that I never used
I downloaded and updated my Windows 7 pro to Windows 10 today. I had two user accounts in Windows 7 before update; Administrator and Ritesh. I never used Ritesh account, so over the time I even forgot ...
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Determine own domain group memberships XP Professional
This seems like it would be a simple question, but my Google skills have failed me.
When logged into a domain (as a domain user without any admin rights), how can I determine what groups my user ...
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Is there a usermod equivalent in terminal for OS X 10.6.1
Can anyone tell me how to modify a user and add them to a group in terminal on SL (10.6.1)?
It seems that usermod is not used by Mac.
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Can a Linux user belong to more than one group?
Can a Linux user belong to more than one group?
If it is allowed, then one use may access files from two groups, that would be quite nice!
If not, is there any alternative way to have this function?
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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 ...
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"Run as" for a .bat file
I'd like to run a .bat file as a different user to troubleshoot a rights problem which I suspect.
For normal .exe files, you can Shift-right-click to get "Run as...". However, for a .bat file, this ...
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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 <...
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