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Trying to create user from text file but keep getting invalid user name error in Ubuntu
I am now trying to create users in Ubuntu from a text file and it looks like this:
student1
student2
student3
student4
student5
However, I keep getting invalid user name error. For instance
'seradd: ...
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How can I edit a file with copies in 2 different users in linux? [closed]
I use AWS vps server and apache2 is installed in it. I want to edit a file "index.html" from 2 different accounts (i.e. 1st user "ubuntu" and second user "www-data"). By ...
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How does Jenkins build with the jenkins user in ubuntu while it has no permissions?
I have my project running in ubuntu server and I did everything through the user myname. The project files, all related directories and static files used by my application belongs to the user myname.
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Private key for connecting EC2 instance
On-premise, we do not use public-private key to connect to Linux VM, launched on ESX.
root user create/configure local users(with an expiry) on the VM and provide access to non-root users
Admin user(...
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How to make sure child processes have correct user ID?
As a etude, I wrote a quick-and-dirty bash script to set a radio alarm a few months ago. It sets a cron/at-job to start streaming an internet radio at as specified time (I use mplayer), and records ...
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Triggering a script using an email
I have a mail server configured on my server (Postfix), I have a script which requires input to be provided to it.
I would like to know if there is a possibility to trigger this script by sending ...
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last login on jumphost with proxycommand
I would like to find out when which user has last logged in on our system, so that I can delete users who have not used the system for longer than 90 days.
For this I look at our jumphost (Linux ...
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Simulating Linux-like admin privilege enabling in Windows 10
In Linux, when we execute a script/application/command line which needs sudo, it ask for the password even current logged account has sudo privileges.
In Windows, if admin user account is logged in, ...
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What is difference between Password expires and Account expires ? Output of chage -l username command [closed]
What is difference between Password expires and Account expires ? Output of "chage -l username" command in Linux. In both case account will be locked So why there are two different fields?
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Can't create a file/directories in Ubuntu 11.10 even if rights are set correctly
I'm affraid about something in ubuntu 11.10. I'm trying to give the write permission to the current user in a specific folder.
So, at first, I'm cnanging the owner to give the propriety to my apache ...
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One user, two user groups, first group access allowed, second group access denied, how to resolve conflict?
There is a system (windows, asp.net application, linux, whatever...), in this system many user groups exist in the system.
We have one user in two user groups A and B.
In user group A access to folder ...
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User management API
I am developing an application suite where users will need to connect to a server and depending on their account type they will be given some services. The server will run Linux. Can you please ...
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How do I add a user in Ubuntu? [closed]
Specifically, what commands do I run from the terminal?
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