Questions tagged [user-groups]
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How to add someone back to the “root” user group after accidentally removing them in Ubuntu and not having another “sudo” user?
I have an Ubuntu installation without root user enabled (standard). The main user that was part of group root (called netuser) was mistakenly removed from the group adding another group and forgetting ...
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Troubleshooting about user groups and usb devices in virtualbox
While accessing to usb devices in virtualbox I've found that usb devices aren't available, so I've checked user groups for vboxusers and found this:
kike@ubuntu:~$ id
uid=1001(kike) gid=1001(kike) ...
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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
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How to setup an unique email address for a group of people (that is constantly evolving)?
I work in an organization and we usually communicate through emails.
This does not work very well because our organization is very flexible:
There is new people joining and people leaving everytime.
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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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Why my linux account only belongs to one group?
I am currently using Ubuntu 18.04, and my username is abcxyz (not real, changed for the matter of the question). If I look at the contents of /etc/groups, my user appears in many groups:
$ cat /etc/...
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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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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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Windows Backup Operators group for family edition
On Windows pro versions, there is a "Backup Operators" group allowing to access every files for backup purposes.
On Windows 10 family I don't see this group (with the commande net localgroup).
I want ...
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Displays the list of groups for a login using command-line in iMac
How to display the list of groups for which login, contained in the environment variable FT_USER, is a member (separated by commas without spaces) using Unix command line in iMac.
Example:
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Nextcloud users' settings "Group admin for" - what is it?
I've just finished configuring a Nextcloud server running on Apache2. It's the latest version. This is the first time I set up such a server.
While I was fiddling with the settings I created a non-...
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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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Unable to create local group CREATE OWNER
I would like to create a local group named
CREATOR OWNER
to work around a bug that's mentioned here.
However, when I use the commandline and type
net localgroup CREATOR OWNER
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net localgroup ...
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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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