Generally used for a component of the software system - which is responsible for creating, managing and controlling users. This includes classical "authentication and authorization" terms too.
Questions tagged [user-management]
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mysql create user if not exists
I have a query to check mysql users list for create new user.
IF (SELECT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM `mysql`.`user` WHERE `user` = '{{ title }}')) = 0 THEN
CREATE USER '{{ title }}'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '{{ password }}'
END IF;
But i get this…

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How to check if a postgres user exists?
createuser allows creation of a user (ROLE) in PostgreSQL. Is there a simple way to check if that user(name) exists already? Otherwise createuser returns with an error:
createuser: creation of new role failed: ERROR: role "USR_NAME" already…

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How do I add a user in Ubuntu?
Specifically, what commands do I run from the terminal?

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Add Users to Jenkins with "Allow users to sign up" Disabled
I do not want new users to be able to sign up. So in Jenkin's Configuration, I disabled "Allow users to sign up" with using Jenkin's own user database.
But how can I manually add users now?
Also, is there a default admin user I should take care of?

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Ansible: best practice for maintaining list of sudoers
In the documentation, there is an example of using the lineinfile module to edit /etc/sudoers.
- lineinfile: "dest=/etc/sudoers state=present regexp='^%wheel' line='%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL'"
Feels a bit hackish.
I assumed there would be…

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Drop User from SQL Server Database?
How can I drop user from a database without dropping it's logging?
The script should check if the user exists in database, if does then drop the user.

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Mapping Firebase Auth users to Firestore Documents
I'm trying to use Firebase's Firestore database to handle Users in my Android app.
Initially I want to use the id returned from the Auth package (a string), and set that as the id for the users Collection in the database. When creating a Document…

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VS Marketplace Add Member displayes Invalid Domain error
I am trying to add a member to Visual Studio Marketplace. In my account I go to Manage Publishers & Extensions -> Members and click om '+ Add'. Whatever e-mail I provide shows "Invalid Domain" error:
Is it a VS Marketplace bug or do I need to…

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How can I get other users info(username, firstname) by id? [Keycloak]
How can I get user keycloak attributes (username, firstname, email...) based on user id?
The user I'm using in the Keycloak session has already the role view-users assigned so I should be able to list at least all users, is there any Keycloak class…

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Ruby on Rails User Management Engine/Framework? (with web pages)
There are quite a few post/recommendations re Rails authorization plugins. What I'm asking here however is whether there is a popular/good Ruby on Rails Engine (or framework) that includes the user interface pages as well (and controllers/models…

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User Management in CodeIgniter 2.1.0
Possible Duplicate:
How should I choose an authentication library for CodeIgniter?
What is the best library for User Registration / Authentication / Management for CodeIgniter 2.1.0?
Thanks!!

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How can I handle/restrict user-access to servlets & jsp's?
I'm currently writing a little dynamic web-application in Java.
The application is supposed to be an event-platform where you can create a user-account, log in, and then you can see all open events (in a later iteration, users can create/participate…

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Cognito Groups with IAM Permissions
What I want to implement:
I have a Cognito User-Pool and I have some Users and some Groups. I want that certain Users have access to API Gateway functions, some Users can access some functions and others have no access.
What I did:
I created three…

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Combining row level security with column grants
Let's say I have a users table with three columns, public_data, private_data, and system_data, and I have three roles named postgres, authenticated_user, and visitor.
postgres is superuser and can access all data (including system_data of…

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What is a good alternative to Firebase for user management, more specifically for Python?
What is an alternative to firebase for user management/auth for python apps. I know I can use node.js w/ firebase but, I would rather authenticate users through a managed 3rd party API in python using HTTPS requests,if possible. Appery.io has this…

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