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A user account is a data object that represents a physical user of a computer system. Commonly, user accounts are represented as database objects.

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What are all the user accounts for IIS/ASP.NET and how do they differ?

Under Windows Server 2008 with ASP.NET 4.0 installed there is a whole slew of related user accounts, and I can't understand which one is which, how to they differ, and which one is REALLY the one that my app runs under. Here's a list: IIS_IUSRS…
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How do you run CMD.exe under the Local System Account?

I'm currently running Vista and I would like to manually complete the same operations as my Windows Service. Since the Windows Service is running under the Local System Account, I would like to emulate this same behavior. Basically, I would like to…
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Start / Stop a Windows Service from a non-Administrator user account

I have a WindowsService named, say, BST. And I need to give a non-Administrator user, UserA, the permissions to Start/Stop this particular service. My service runs on a variety of Windows OS, starting from Windows Server 2003 to Windows 7. How can I…
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How to find the privileges and roles granted to a user in Oracle?

I am using Linux, Oracle10g. I have created one user called test. and granted create session and select any dictionary permission to the same user. i also granted sysdba and sysoper roles to the same users. Now i want to display all the privileges…
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Detect if running as Administrator with or without elevated privileges?

I have an application that needs to detect whether or not it is running with elevated privileges or not. I currently have code set up like this: static bool IsAdministrator() { WindowsIdentity identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); …
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How to grant full permission to a file created by my application for ALL users?

The tool I develop needs to grant access rights "Full Control" to a file created by it. It needs to be read, modified and deleted from all windows accounts and even possible future accounts. Could this be achieved? I know I can try this for a…
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Error in installing Windows service developed in .NET

I have developed a windows service using C# and Visual Studio 2008. I have Windows XP SP2 installed on my machine. When I try to install the service using the installutil tool, after entering the username and password, I get the following error. An…
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How do I set a blank password for the root user in slitaz

I am running slitaz distro, and would like to completely remove the root password. I have tried giving a blank password to the passwd command, however that did not seem to do the trick. It gave me an error password was too short, ans it still asked…
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Creating and managing a Facebook app from a Business Account

Can I create or manage a Facebook app via a 'business' account? When I try to access https://developers.facebook.com/apps when logged in as a business account it redirects me back to my homepage and won't let me create an app. Context: A business /…
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What's the easiest way to get a user's full name on a Linux/POSIX system?

I could grep through /etc/passwd but that seems onerous. 'finger' isn't installed and I'd like to avoid that dependency. This is for a program so it would be nice if there was some command that let you just access user info.
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For Twitter , how to create test user accounts?

Facebook allows you to create test user accounts that can only be used for testing purpose. Does Twitter provide similar functionality ? I don't want to get my application blacklisted for creating fake user accounts; do I have to use my real user…
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Adding more fields to Meteor user accounts

I am using mrt add accounts-ui-bootstrap-dropdown and mrt add accounts-password to get a simple login page running on my app. The accounts users gives me a nice hash containing ids, createdAt, emails, etc. If I wanted to add other fields in this…
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How to add Sysadmin login to SQL Server?

I have installed SQL Server 2008 using Windows Authentication in my laptop for my own use. I want to add Sysadmin account/role using SQL Server Login type. I checked this post, but it's not showing what I need. How can I add the sysadmin account? By…
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powershell - list local users and their groups

I'd like to have a report with all the local users and their relative groups (users, power users, administrators and so on. I get the users in this way: $adsi = [ADSI]"WinNT://." $adsi.psbase.children | where {$_.psbase.schemaClassName -match…
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PHP and MySQL Select a Single Value

I'd like to know how to select a single value from my MySQL table. The table includes columns username and id amongst others (id is auto-increment and username is unique). Given the username, I want to set a session variable $_SESSION['myid'] equal…
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