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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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Why does a group show up in the “Users & Groups” GUI but not in “/etc/groups/” in macOS?
I have in macOS in “Users & Groups” I have a group called: access_bpf.
But it is not in: /etc/groups
Where is the user of accesss_bpf and how does not the other groups show in the “Users & ...
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list all the groups to which a user belongs. Using macOS and CentOS
This is may question.
I want to know the groups of some user.
$dscl . list /groups filterByUSer theFindUser is it possible?
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OS X: Create user-groups, that are not shown in Systempreferences "Users & Groups" PrevPane
I created some hidden Users on OS X, using dscl . -create /Users/<usershortname> IsHidden 1, that work as administraters.
For some reasons, I like to place the HOME-folders of different groups ...
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user cannot be found in Mac OS X
After running the script in this answer to show all members of the group wheel, I got a weird result.
The user tempuser cannot be found
There was an unknown error.
When I tried dscacheutil -q user -...
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How to properly setup group file permissions in MacOSX
I have a couple of users, one was created via OSX GUI, one is nobody for nginx and php-fpm.
All commands below are executed as root.
I created new group for my project:
dscl . -create /groups/...
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Permissions for 'Sites' folder (apache) are wrong
My head is a bit mashed over this.
I have moved from MAMP to using Mac's own AMP stack, and have got it working, but just CANNOT get the directory permissions right.
My localhost points to ~/Sites ...
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Unable to run commands with "sudo" from my user
For some reason, I am unable to run any commands with su as my user. This was working before and I'm not sure what broke it. The funny thing is that I can su to root without any problems.
Example:
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