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How to list the users and groups of an AD Security Group when not a domain admin

I am on Windows 8 connected to domain. I wish to view the users and groups of an AD Security group. I am not the owner of the group. The command: net group /domain TheGroupName shows the direct ...
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How to create a user group for network resource access?

Ours is a windows network. There are some systems with Windows 7 and some with Windows XP. Mine is a Windows 7 system. I would like to create a user group so that I can grant it permission to access ...
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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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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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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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How to arbitrarily map user/group ownerships in rsync

I need to rsync a directory to a remote server so that all files belonging to user X and group Y on the source (local) machine are mapped to user W and group Z on the destination (remote) machine. If ...
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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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What does Docker ID 999 mean?

What does the 999 on the docker mean: michael@the-marketplace:/opt/backups$ id uid=1002(michael) gid=1002(michael) groups=1002(michael),999(docker) and why can I simply become root by running (source ...
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Why do `groups` and `groups $USER` give different results?

I want to add myself to the "docker" group. These are the commands I ran, and their output: user1@laptop-p3510:~$ sudo usermod -a -G docker user1 user1@laptop-p3510:~$ groups user1 adm cdrom ...
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groupadd: command not found

Cannot create a group in RHEL5. I get error groupadd: command not found.
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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 to change the group of a file generated by my python codes on Linux server?

I belong to multiple groups (AAA, BBB, CCC, and etc.) on a Linux server. And I wrote a python code that generates a file on the server. When generated, this file belongs to group AAA, by default. But ...
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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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Linux user administrator hierarchy

Can I have two users, one above other, but all can run all sudo commands and run all sudo applications, except user below, is not allowed specific small group of actions,set by user above. Ideally, ...
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Cannot run docker as non sudo user

cannot run docker as non-privileged user. I added user to docker group with: sudo groupadd -a -G docker $USER I loggeg out and in again, still no success. I am running docker on a Ubuntu 21.10 system....

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