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How to restore "wheel" user/group?

I deleted wheel group in HDD "get info/permissions" wrongly thinking it was hacker. I now see that my Mac is running akwardly these days. How can I restore or recover "natural" or previous HDD user/...
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Setting default file permissions using setfacl

I need to set the default ACLs on new files created by httpd via the apache service user in such a way that the file is created with the GUID set to the dev users account (which well call devs), and ...
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Groups permissions for multiple users

I am setting up a web development uBuntu server for multiple users. The website files are all owned by root and in the group root. As I was trying to avoid giving parts of the file structure 777 ...
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Grant user implicit permissions to folders of another user

I've got the following file structure on Debian 8: /folder userA:users 0750 rwxr-x--- (never edited) # Dynamically created by userA with these permissions: /folder/content1 ...
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Linux permissions: Users, Groups, Others, white list or black list? And help sharing directories with full, partial, and no permissions

Update: for my general purposes, what I figured out here is good enough: UPDATE: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/13401/locking-down-raspbian-to-only-allow-limited-features/58778#58778 ...
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Give a group write permission to a folder

I need help understanding how giving write permission to a group, works in Ubuntu. I am logged in as root and have a www-data:www-data and ftpuser:ftpuser (user:group). I add the ftpuser into the www-...
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Set directory tree to belong to fixed group

I have a directory tree under /mnt/data where I would like to keep data. I would ike my user: guest to have read access student to have read and write access me to also have read and write access I ...
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Linux user group folder permissions

I have a basic linux file permissions question: I have a folder named test: $ ls -la drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-10-25 17:11 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2010-10-25 16:53 .. drw-rwS--- ...
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