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Questions tagged [usermod]

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Completely lock user account on server, including ssh

I need to lock some user accounts, without messing with their HOME, if at all possible. Normal way would be usermod -L user but it seems to leave open ssh login with public key authentication (routinely used on this server). I know I could just mv…
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Difference between "usermod -aG" and "usermod -G" options

I'm preparing for the LPIC-1, exam 102, and was wondering what is the difference between these two commands with respect to options -G and -aG: usermod -G projectA, projectB jsmith usermod -aG projectA, projectB jsmith The user jsmith has its own…
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Difference between expired account and inactive account

After a command like: $ usermod -e -f bea Bea's account will be expired, but still active (until tomorrow). What's the difference? What could happen yesterday and can't happen today? And what can happen today but not after…
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Reserving a range of anonymous UIDs; /etc/subuid

I need a range of uids (say a few thousand) for a setuid-root tool to use. Is there a protocol to registering such a range or do I just pick a range and hope no other program will use those uids? (I'd rather not create not clutter /etc/passwd with…
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How to change user home directory when in use by /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user

After copying all contents of a user home directory I'm trying to change the home directory to the new location. But systemd prevents me from doing this. # sudo usermod -d /data/home/user/ user usermod: user user is currently used by process 10050 #…
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chgrp chown usermod are useless if not root?

I am logged under 'achille' achille belongs to 2 groups: groups achille achille: achille users I want to change the group owner of file 'tree.test' to group 'users' ls -l tree.test -rw-r--r--. 1 achille achille 2512881 Dec 1 11:53 tree.test I…
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command to add multiple “secondary groups” for a user in Solaris

I am trying to add 2 secondary groups for a user is Solaris system, but not able to do so. It only adds 1 secondary groups. I've done enough R&D, not sure what to do. Below command I am using : sudo usermod -g Primarygrp -G…
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Cannot su into root default shell - Debian

I am using a Debian 9 server. Usually I access via ssh to a normal user (say user1) and su into root, because I disabled ssh into root. Lately I was setting up a git-server where I created a user git with the group git and restricted him to…
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Unable to add user to a group due to sssd?

I'm working on Fedora 29 x86_64 fully patched. I'm trying to add my user to the dialout group so I can open the modem: $ ls -Al /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 188, 0 Feb 22 19:27 /dev/ttyUSB0 $ sudo usermod -a -G dialout jwalton (Fri Feb…
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Solaris 5.10 shell replacement for Centos 7 migration

I have an old Solaris 5.10 server. I'm migrating the tomcat products to Centos 7. There are two accounts on the Solaris server that I need to migrate. The shells for both of those accounts are identified as "/usr/local/bin/ftponly". This looks like…
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whoami returns user, but usermod complains it doesn't exist

I have Linux (Ubuntu) on a VM provided by corporate IT in my organization, and I have a user "myuser". whoami is able to return the username: myuser@host:/home/myuser$ whoami myuser id returns info related to the user too: myuser@host:~$…
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ID results different depending on who asks

I have userX who has realtime privileges thorugh the realtime group. I wanted to give that user admin privileges so I switched to root ~>su root and ran #>usermod -a -G root userX After a brief delay I got back to the prompt and tested the…
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username is currently used by process

I am trying to change the home directory of a user. using usermod ravishshankar --home /var/www/domainname/public_html/ but get usermod: user username is currently used by process 1378 I try to kill pid 1378 but get bash: kill: pid: arguments must…
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unable to boot directly to desktop environment

I tried to change a user's login name with usermod --login krypton maddybut now everytime I reboot my pc, it doesn't directly shows the desktop environment and I need to do Ctrl+Alt+F2 and then startx and when I run who I get previous username at…
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unable to add user to group fedora 29

I used groupadd to add a group so that I could manage with git some root owned scripts. I then used usermod to add a user to a group. The user is the currently logged in standard user and I am in a shell through su into the superuser account in…
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