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Questions tagged [user-accounts]

Usually a personal account on a computer system that allows access to a system's (advanced) functions.

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 users may also be given that option.

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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 passwords; also family photos and the plethora of other…
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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 problem if I close down my "Home" profile last,…
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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 how to avoid creating a home dir. Also, I don't…
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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. Anyway, long story short, it was apparently…
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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 | | performance_schema | | game_data …
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What is the "wheel" user in 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 of iTunes to the trash and installed a new copy, and…
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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 who is a member of, but I don't know the group…
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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 see each group’s members?
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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 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 docs recommend using distroname.exe config, but…
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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 is my -v print out, sshd_config, and ssh_config…
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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 logins. (10 minutes left to unlock) Password: I am…
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