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Questions tagged [users]
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How do I share a Git repository with multiple users on a machine?
I have a Git repository on a staging server which multiple developers need to be able to pull to. git-init seems to have a flag very close to what I'm looking for: --shared, except I'd like multiple people to pull to that repository, as well. The…
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How can I show user's privileges in MySQL?
I know that I can set user's privileges in the following simple way:
grant all on [database name].[table name] to [user name]@[host name];
But how can I see existing privileges?
I need to see data similar to those which are used in grant. In other…
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Where can I find data stored by a Windows Service running as "Local System Account"?
I'm using a service which stores data on disk.
The service is running as "local system account".
Where is the stored data for that system user?
I'm thinking about C:\Documents and Settings\Default User but I'm not sure about that.
Can someone…
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Show all users and their groups/vice versa
I know I have existing groups and users but I'm not sure about their association. Is there an shell command I can use to list all users or all groups and a command to list all groups/users for a specified user/group?
So something like showusers…
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What's the best way to see logged in users in Windows Server 2012?
Right now I use a powershell script to see the currently logged in users. But I don't see if their session is idle, active or inactive. I can see when the session was started, that's it.
Is there an easy way to see how many users are currently…
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How do I list all users with root?
On a linux box, how do I list all users that have root priveleges (and even better, all users in general along with if they have root or not)?
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People think a "hidden" save file dialog box means the computer is frozen
I have had reports of my remote workstation freezing for several months, and it turns out that this is happening:
User goes to print something to PDF (or save it).
The file dialog box comes up asking where they want the file to go.
They click…
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How to check who is currently logged on to windows workstation from command line?
Environment is in domain, server is Windows Server 2003, workstations have Vista and XP installed.
I need the way to check remotely who is currently logged on workstation, preferably from some simple command line and without sysinternals or third…
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What is the best way to address users storing and streaming music within your company?
We have a number of users who have MP3s in their home directories which are stored on our centralized file server. This has a negative affect on how long our backups take, how much drives space we need to have, etc. I thought about sending e-mails…
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Is a reboot required to refresh permissions after adding a user to a new group?
On ubuntu server, I've noticed more than once now that after adding a user to a group that user doesn't have group permissions until I reboot the system. For example:
User 'hudson' needs permission to read directory 'root:shadow /etc/shadow'
So I…
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How to know all the users that can access a database (MySQL)?
How to know all the users that can access a database?
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Adding an administrator user to SQL Server 2008
How do you add an administrator user to SQL Server 2008?
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Memory usage per user in Linux?
Let's say i have 20 users logged on my linux box. How can I know how much memory each of them is using?
Jakub Troszok
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What should I do about a "misbehaving" user?
What should I do about this user? The user is:
Downloading pornography
Attempting unauthorized access
Running hacking software
Sending unsolicited email
Installing software / tampering with the system
etc
This is intended as a generic answer for…
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Unable to remove user: "user is currently logged in"
When trying to remove the user, it returns "user is currently logged in".
I already killed the user using pkill -KILL -u usernameHere and several other commands, but it does not help.
How can I remove this user?
Running CentOS 6.
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