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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

      @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

      @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

      @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

      @coliver No unfortunately.

      Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

      The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

      Very inconvenient

      The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

      How do you do into Windows as another user without their password? or resetting their password to something you know?

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

        @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

        @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

        @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

        @coliver No unfortunately.

        Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

        The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

        Very inconvenient

        The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

        I do this all of the time. I get a CYA in writing and just go. Forget all about the user lol

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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          @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

          @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

          @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

          It could end in .py or any other extension.

          Or very likely, no extension at all. Most of mine don't have one.

          Doesn't that just make it annoying to run a script without knowing what language it was written in? (not that an extension is any indicator of the language used, but still).

          If you were on Windows, yes. But not on Linux since you don't have any need to know what language it is in, they just run.

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          • wirestyle22W
            wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

            @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

            @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

            @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

            @coliver No unfortunately.

            Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

            The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

            Very inconvenient

            The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

            I just don't know how this was setup or what it is doing. If I change the pw there is no chance that I could break something due to it being used like a service account for scripts?

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @Dashrender
              last edited by

              @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

              @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

              @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

              @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

              @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

              @coliver No unfortunately.

              Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

              The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

              Very inconvenient

              The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

              How do you do into Windows as another user without their password? or resetting their password to something you know?

              You'd change the password if you had to login as that user. Otherwise as the admin you'd grant yourself access to the user files.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                @coliver No unfortunately.

                Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                Very inconvenient

                The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                How do you do into Windows as another user without their password? or resetting their password to something you know?

                net user name password

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
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                  @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                  @coliver No unfortunately.

                  Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                  The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                  Very inconvenient

                  The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                  I just don't know how this was setup or what it is doing. If I change the pw there is no chance that I could break something due to it being used like a service account for scripts?

                  Even if it was a service, it would run with the new password just as well. If it's setup to use the user password in some config, you should be able to see that pretty easily.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                    @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                    @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                    @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                    @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                    @coliver No unfortunately.

                    Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                    The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                    Very inconvenient

                    The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                    How do you do into Windows as another user without their password? or resetting their password to something you know?

                    net user name password

                    Doesn't that just offer you the ability to change the password?

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                      @coliver No unfortunately.

                      Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                      The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                      Very inconvenient

                      The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                      How do you do into Windows as another user without their password? or resetting their password to something you know?

                      net user name password

                      Doesn't that just offer you the ability to change the password?

                      No that changes the password. But you'd only ever do this if you HAD to login as SAID user. Otherwise you login as the admin and just grant yourself permissions to the user profile and files.

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                      • wirestyle22W
                        wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
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                        @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                        @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                        @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                        @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                        @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                        @coliver No unfortunately.

                        Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                        The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                        Very inconvenient

                        The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                        I just don't know how this was setup or what it is doing. If I change the pw there is no chance that I could break something due to it being used like a service account for scripts?

                        Even if it was a service, it would run with the new password just as well. If it's setup to use the user password in some config, you should be able to see that pretty easily.

                        Yeah that should be the case. Just kind of afraid because I know nothing about the host.

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
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                          @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                          @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                          @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                          @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                          @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                          @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                          @coliver No unfortunately.

                          Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                          The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                          Very inconvenient

                          The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                          I just don't know how this was setup or what it is doing. If I change the pw there is no chance that I could break something due to it being used like a service account for scripts?

                          Even if it was a service, it would run with the new password just as well. If it's setup to use the user password in some config, you should be able to see that pretty easily.

                          Yeah that should be the case. Just kind of afraid because I know nothing about the host.

                          So take a backup before you touch things.

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                          • wirestyle22W
                            wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
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                            @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                            @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                            @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                            @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                            @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                            @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                            @coliver No unfortunately.

                            Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                            The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                            Very inconvenient

                            The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                            How do you do into Windows as another user without their password? or resetting their password to something you know?

                            net user name password

                            Doesn't that just offer you the ability to change the password?

                            No that changes the password. But you'd only ever do this if you HAD to login as SAID user. Otherwise you login as the admin and just grant yourself permissions to the user profile and files.

                            In this case to access the history you'd need to correct

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                            • wirestyle22W
                              wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
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                              @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                              @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                              @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                              @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                              @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                              @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                              @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                              @coliver No unfortunately.

                              Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                              The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                              Very inconvenient

                              The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                              I just don't know how this was setup or what it is doing. If I change the pw there is no chance that I could break something due to it being used like a service account for scripts?

                              Even if it was a service, it would run with the new password just as well. If it's setup to use the user password in some config, you should be able to see that pretty easily.

                              Yeah that should be the case. Just kind of afraid because I know nothing about the host.

                              So take a backup before you touch things.

                              Yeah I am

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                                What goes for Windows too?
                                that you can
                                a) log in as a user without knowing the password
                                b) rest the user's password?

                                obviously we know that we as admins can do 'b'... but I read Scott's comment to say he's talking about 'a'

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                                • wirestyle22W
                                  wirestyle22 @Dashrender
                                  last edited by

                                  @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                  The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                                  What goes for Windows too?
                                  that you can
                                  a) log in as a user without knowing the password
                                  b) rest the user's password?

                                  obviously we know that we as admins can do 'b'... but I read Scott's comment to say he's talking about 'a'

                                  He's not

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403 @Dashrender
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                                    @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                    The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                                    What goes for Windows too?
                                    that you can
                                    a) log in as a user without knowing the password
                                    b) rest the user's password?

                                    obviously we know that we as admins can do 'b'... but I read Scott's comment to say he's talking about 'a'

                                    Yes, you can change a user password on Windows for local user accounts from the control panel or net user and then login as them. If you had AD you would change it there and then login as said user with the password you created.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                      @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                      @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                      @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                      @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                      @coliver No unfortunately.

                                      Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                                      The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                                      Very inconvenient

                                      The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                                      How do you do into Windows as another user without their password? or resetting their password to something you know?

                                      net user name password

                                      Doesn't that just offer you the ability to change the password?

                                      Yes, in Windows you reset. In Linux you have multi-user from the command line.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
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                                        @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                        @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                        @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                        @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                        @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                        @coliver No unfortunately.

                                        Are there additional users on this system? If so you might need to login as them and check the history for each of them.

                                        The problem is that I can't. They are local accounts and there was no transfer of information. No one knows the passwords. Can't reach out to these people as they left on bad terms apparently.

                                        Very inconvenient

                                        The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                                        How do you do into Windows as another user without their password? or resetting their password to something you know?

                                        net user name password

                                        Doesn't that just offer you the ability to change the password?

                                        No that changes the password. But you'd only ever do this if you HAD to login as SAID user. Otherwise you login as the admin and just grant yourself permissions to the user profile and files.

                                        In this case to access the history you'd need to correct

                                        You can access the history without logging in as the user. Root can access the text files that hold the history.

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                                        • DashrenderD
                                          Dashrender @wirestyle22
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                                          @wirestyle22 said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                          @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                          The admin can just reset passwords or log in as people. There is never a need to know the local user account passwords (and that goes for Windows, too.)

                                          What goes for Windows too?
                                          that you can
                                          a) log in as a user without knowing the password
                                          b) rest the user's password?

                                          obviously we know that we as admins can do 'b'... but I read Scott's comment to say he's talking about 'a'

                                          He's not

                                          Yeah, OK I see that now - he's simply saying - there's never a need to know a user's password.

                                          of course reason is - because you can reset it.

                                          But as mentioned by @wirestyle22 - doing that can break things.. like on Windows, if the user is using Bitlocker to encrypt things.. the key will be lost.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                            @Dashrender said in Locating a script that you don't know the name of in Linux:

                                            But as mentioned by @wirestyle22 - doing that can break things.. like on Windows, if the user is using Bitlocker to encrypt things.. the key will be lost.

                                            If a user doesn't exist, and is needed, it's already broken and they need to find out.

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