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Setting up the group permissions in samba throughout archlinux

I wanted to set up the permissions for the group on linux, so members can access the group on windows. I coded it in archlinux and it looks like this : [test] path = /srv/smbtest/test valid users =...
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Primary user group for Linux desktop applications

My user has several groups assigned (e.g. group_a and group_b). By default, the order is: $ groups > group_b group_a In order to assign the right primary group (for file access rights etc.), I ...
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NFS Directory Group permissions not working

For some reason the users that are part of a particular group (with that group have rwx on an NFS directory) cannot cd in to that directory. I am at a loss here, there has to be something I am missing....
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How do I fix a quantum group membership? (I'm in the group, unless I look at the group, in which case I'm not in the group)

This happened (explanation on how we got to this below): PS C:\> Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Network Configuration Operators" -Member myuser Add-LocalGroupMember : MYLAPTOP\myuser is ...
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I accidentally removed SYSTEM group & 'Authenticated Users' group from C:\ permissions in Windows 10

Hoping someone can help. I was following the instructions for 'Solution 6:' on this linked page in an attempt to fix a blank preview screen in the OBS Studio app OBS Blank Preview Screen Fixes Sadly ...
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User groups issue

Recently I noticed strange thing that I can't figure out searching the web. The groups and id give $ groups q $ id uid=1000(q) gid=1000(q) groups=1000(q) But explicitly passed arg change the ...
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Can anyone tell me where these users and groups came from? (sshd, devtoolsuser, aspnet & netmon users, ssh users, performance log users)

I ran into an issue with "an administrator has blocked you from running xx app" which shouldnt be happening due to the fact im obviously administrator on my pc, and i have real-time/smartscreen ...
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How can i specify which group can read and write files in directory

i have two groups boys girls boys have users pete ali girls have users alice mary i have d1 directoy in home/pete I want to let only pete can read and write the files in that folder, And ali ...
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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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Synology: understanding the group service permission

Let's say I have a user group A and user group B. I want A to have access to the FTP service and nothing else. I want B to have access to the cloud drive service and nothing else. Now if I add a ...
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Have directory that anyone in a group can chmod from 444 to 777

I have a release area that I (not a super user) manage. Nominally the privileges are 444 (Only read access for myself, group, and everyone). I don't want myself or a group to nominally have write ...
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Docker group assignment doesn't affect the user

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04. On the manual page on how to use docker without sudo it is written that user should add himself to the docker group and perform logout/login for changes to take affect. I ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 SFTP Group: one user has permissions, the other doesn't

Following this guide I have created a group sftp_users that I use for SFTP access only. I created two users, user1, user2 I then added both to to group sudo usermod -a -G sftp_users user1 sudo ...
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NixOS & NixOps declarative group management and services

Is it possible to manage groups in a declarative way in NixOS and NixOps? I would like to be able to create a new group in a configuration.nix, and add users to it. I have not been able to find any ...
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Share a directory with one (not all) other non-root user on Linux (no root privileges)

Is it possible to share a directory with one other non-root user, but only this one, without root privileges? The system is Ubuntu with kernel 4.4.0. I do not have root privileges. The system has a ...
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