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How do admins maintain user accounts across hundreds of linux servers?

Dealing with hundreds of RHEL servers, how can we maintain local root accounts and network user accounts? Is there an active directory type solution that manages these from a central location?
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Where's my tab completion and up-arrow behavior? (Ubuntu 10.04)

I'm new to Linux, trying Ubuntu 10.04, preconfigured by host. When I log in (SSH) using the preconfigured account, the shell prompt is: user@hostname:~$ The up arrow scrolls through the list of recent shell commands, and tab-completion works as…
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How to disable an LDAP account?

The LDAP uses the posixAccount schema and related attributes and I wonder if there's a standardized way to disable an account. Re-enabling the account should obviously re-enable the former password. I know that passwd --lock adds an exclamation mark…
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Run a script after I unlock my Windows session?

How do I run a script each time I unlock my Windows 7 session? So, if I lock my session and then log in again, I want the script to run. Do login scripts configured in the Group Policy do this or will they only work the first time?
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Change different domain account without being admin Windows

I have 2 accounts on a domain. I can log into a citrix virtual desktop with the one account fine, but the other won't let me log into anything until I first change my password. I am remote, so I can't log into an RDP session to the servers I have…
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what to do if i accidentally reset the computer account

I'm not the domain admin, but I thought I could handle a simple task, and apparently I thought wrong, how I need assistance. A computer was locked and we needed to login to shutdown a program that was locking a file. I have done this before: I open…
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Why is IIS_IUSRS used instead of IUSR for file permissions?

I was recently setting up a Drupal install on IIS7. The setup instructions required that the IIS_IUSRS account be given, temporarily, write access to the settings.php file so it could write the database configuration to the file. In the end I had to…
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Wordpress - Administering users on a blog

As a wordpress blog administrator, I create the user accounts. What are the differences between these role types in wordpress?: Subscriber Administrator Editor Author Contributor I want to add user accounts that can write and edit their own blog…
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Windows 2008 R2 - What is the Attribute that defines the default user or group that can add the computer to a domain?

When you create a new computer object, you will define the CN, sAMAccountName and a user or group that can add the computer to a domain(can access) to that Computer Object using GUI Interface, this step called Prestaging. What is the name of the…
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LDAP Account Locked Out Sporadically after Password change - Finding the source of invalid attempts

On a small network of machines (<1000) we have a user whose account is being locked out after an indeterminate interval following a password change. We are having severe difficulties finding the source of the invalid logon attempts and I would…
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Creating Limited User Accounts on Ubuntu Server

Using Ubuntu server, I need to create some user accounts that have the following limitations: (1) User may only view and manipulate files in their home directory. (2) User may only execute commands related to rsync and sftp. I want users to be able…
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Account lock after a single authentication failure

I have 2 standalone servers (not in any domain/AD) - Windows 2003 and Windows 2008. When connecting to shares on them, using the UNC path from Windows 2000 pro, or Samba (under linux), if I make a mistake typing the password, these servers will…
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Delete and Re-Add Disqus Site

I have a site that uses Disqus, and I've messed up the comments/discussions data beyond the point of recovery. I'd like to simply delete the site and start fresh. I know that all of my comments/discussions will be deleted, but I've been unable to…
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Is it possible to change an Azure organisational account administrator?

My (small) company has an Azure account we use for various projects. Does anyone know if it's possible to change the Account Administrator? I've figured out how to add technical users as 'Co-Administrators' for subscriptions so they can control…
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Lock Workstation Glitch? (AD/Windows XP)

I was playing with a lab setup recently (Windows 2003 R2 x32 SP2, Windows XP SP3, Active Directory) and noticed that if I locked the workstation, the following strange behaviour appeared: I have a lockout policy that says that an account is locked…
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