Questions tagged [users]
Anything related with user accounts and user management on Unix-like systems.
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How should I partition my main and backup/scratch disks? [closed]
I'm new to Linux, carefully reading many Linux sources. I intend to become 100% competent in Linux, yet getting beyond fundamental choices sooner than later will help better study Linux operations; ...
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Getting an "unexpected operator" error when logging in on a new account
I am relatively new to Linux, but my background is as a network monkey, so I'm used to the CLI. I just installed Debian onto a Libre Renegade and that went quite smoothly. So far I have had to alter ...
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Automatic backup on a second internal hidden disk when files are moved to a first disk
Summary: I need to automatically backup files on a hidden hard disk whenever the user copy files on a specific hard disk. Long explanation: Context: My father (70 years old) is very bad at computers. ...
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Excluding processes by one user in Solaris "top"
Host machine: SunOS 5.11 11.3 sun4v sparc sun4v As an Informix DBA monitoring a system I am trying to see the top users of CPU. In an Informix environment, that slot is hogged by a gazillion ...
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Why can't I create a user with primary GID 100?
In /etc/group there is a group users with numerical group ID 100. When I install RHEL 7,8, or 9 it does not allow me to create the initial user with a primary group ID of 100. The GUI always snaps ...
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Why connecting to a VPN creates a new login from my local user?
When I work from home, I connect from my Linux machine to a VPN, via this command: $ sudo openconnect --protocol=anyconnect -u usernameatwork --authgroup=MFA foo.bar.baz.work which will require that ...
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Allow all users to trigger a data sync to shared directory (groups vs dummy user?)
I have an Ubuntu server with ~6-7 users. We all use some software that requires some shared files and folders to be regularly updated. Let's call that shared directory /opt/science/online-data ...
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Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) in WSL
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y Hit:1 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-last-snapshot InRelease All packages are up to date. Summary: Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not ...
