In computing, a user is a person who uses a computer or Internet service. A user may have a user account that identifies the user by a username (also user name), screen name (also screenname), or "handle", which is derived from the identical Citizen's Band radio term. To log in to an account, a user is typically required to authenticate himself/herself/itself with a password or other credentials for the purposes of accounting, security, logging, and resource management. For a discussion of user satisfaction, see Computer user satisfaction.

Users are also widely characterized as the class of people that use a system without complete technical expertise required to fully understand the system. In most hacker-related contexts, they are also divided into lusers and power users. Both are terms of degradation, but the latter connotes a "know-it-all" attitude. See also End-user (computer science).

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Mon Apr 19 15:25:09 2010

How can I automate the creation of user accounts in Active Directory?
Q. I'm new to Active Directory and I would like to add some user accounts so I can create an Active Directory for a small organization. I don't want to manually create accounts as that would be very laborious. There must surely be some way to automate this. If you have any suggestions, I would appreciate it.
Asked by Johnny - Thu Jul 2 02:22:46 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. There are many ways to populate data in Active Directory. I would suggest using LDIFDE to do so. LDIF stands for LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)m which is a draft Internet standard for a file format that may be used for performing batch operations against directories that conform to the LDAP standards. LDIF can be used to export and import data, allowing batch operations such as add, create, and modify to be performed against the Active Directory. A utility program from Microsoft called LDIFDE is included in Windows 2000 to support batch operations based on the LDIF file format standard. For the details, rather than explain the whole thing to you, I'd rather point you to the source -
Answered by Sam_MSCE - Thu Jul 2 18:55:22 2009

How to use 2 user accounts with out rebooting in mac?
Q. Please help me i use a mac leopard and i want to use 2 user accounts with out rebooting. Just like parallels
Asked by Yash - Thu Jun 11 05:46:32 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Parallels doesn't activate two user accounts. It activates Windows within the Mac OS. Also, you don't have to reboot to change users. Click the Apple log menu and choose "Logout". That takes two to ten seconds and brings up a login screen. Then you login to the other account. If you want to use two different user accounts simultaneously, that's not an option. Each user account uses different files that have the same names, so how would you get them all into memory and sorted -- slow mouse click, fast mouse click, this set of browser bookmarks, that set of browser bookmarks. What are you expecting to gain from this?
Answered by SilverTonguedDevil - Sat Jun 13 02:54:28 2009

How do websites have user accounts for their members?
Q. I want to start a website and would like information on how user accounts exist and are created.
Asked by Jacko - Fri Aug 3 23:29:17 2007 - - 0 Answers - 0 Comments

A. There is some kind of database backend. In case of an user forum such as SMF. MySQL is the backend database where the account information is held.
Answered by mebe2 - Fri Aug 3 23:34:33 2007

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Mon Jul 26 13:12:50 2010