Questions tagged [user-groups]
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How change to administrator account from standard account
I have a computer with 3 different accounts. All the accounts are administrators except mine. How do I change my account to a administrator account.I can't log on to the 2 other accounts and I don't ...
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usermod returns "group 'thegroupname' does not exist" for known group
As a member of sudo can I add myself to a group I don't belong to?
$ getent group thegroupname
thegroupname:x:123794798:administrator,users,auser,moreusers,manymoreusers
$ sudo usermod -a -G ...
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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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What do '!', '*', and 'x' mean in getent group?
When I run getent group, I notice that some groups have *, some have ! and some have x after the group name. In fact, there are some groups which have the same name, the only difference is that one ...
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Group member editing to file *automatically* changes ownership, group, and permissions
I have a directory which I'm trying to set up such that members of a group all have rwx privileges. Here is a subset of the directory and its permissions:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusrnm grpnm 21638 2015-04-...
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Windows 7 File Permissions, Security Tab, "Group or user names" SYSTEM group
*Note: This is a re-posting of a 'too broad' topic. This is a narrowed version:
I right click a file, and choose "Permissions." I choose the "Security" tab. Under the "Group or user names" section, I ...
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User shown as a member of deleted group
In my ubuntu distro,
members user1
returns
group1: group2
Now, i gave
delgroup group1
& it is done successfully...
second time gave command,
members user1
returns
group1: group2
why ...
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How works assigning rights to group in windows
User group in windows groups users so it is then easier to grant permissions to all users of a group at once. This works like: we have a group "A_GROUP1" which contains users "USR1,USR2,USR3" then we ...
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Change group id when acting in directory
I have a directory shared where people part of group common have rwx permission inside.
And user john
$> id john
uid=1000(john)gid=1000(john)groups=1000(john),10(common)
It would be nice if 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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adding user to group and detects the change without restart
I want to add a user to a group using:
sudo gpasswd -a new_user existing_group
But it only takes effect when I restart my host. Is it possible to do that without restart action?
I am on Ubuntu.
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Change PC local group members from Active Directory Domain Controller?
Our environment is based on a Windows Server 2003, and more than a hundred computers in the domain.
These computers have the usual domain user in the local Administrator group of the respective ...
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linux user permissions with groups on file
I have one file owned by user: "ruler"
and another user: "tzook"
now I have one file that is owned by "ruler" and by group "deployers"
here is the file:
-rwxrwxr-- 1 ruler deployers 3040 Oct 28 12:...
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How to make directory readable by TWO users in Linux?
How to make directory readable by TWO users in Linux?
Should I create GROUP and add these users to this GROUP and make this GROUP being an owner of a directory?
Should this GROUP be supplementary or ...
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How to fix my local administrator?
Starting a few days ago, I am facing a very weird issue here on my Windows 8.1 workstation. I am unable to start programs or applications that require administrator privileges. This makes my PC ...
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