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Allowing non-root access to PTP Cameras [closed]

On an 11.04 system when I insert a PTP camera it lists but it doesn't allow access to it. I have to start the photo management application (be it Shotwell or any other) with root access to be able to ...
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Default groups for user in Ubuntu 12.10?

Installed HP Linux Imaging and Printing by using install script and something crashed. Now I'm only member of my own group and lp. Which are the default groups for users in Ubuntu 12.10? Same as ...
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I'm in a group but can't create or modify files [closed]

I have two user accounts. Let's say one is User1 and the other is User2. Both of these accounts are in the "root" group. I made a folder with some files in it. The owner is User1 and the group is ...
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Does Landscape support user management?

Does Landscape support the following user management features? create user delete user change password for user with given username add user to group remove user from group set user login shell ...
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Users and Groups No Save Button

I am trying to add User Privileges; Use modems & Connect to wireless & ethernet networks to my current & only user profile. It'll ask for my password & I am admin, but the ...
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Incompatible group permissions in Linux - Is it a bug?

I am on Ubuntu 11.04. I am creating another user and placing an existing user in the group of other user, hoping to write in the home directory of other user. # uname -a Linux vini 2.6.38-11-generic ...
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Adding an existing user to another group

I am having this strange problem. I am using usermod to add an existing user to another group. I want to create a new user and add an old user to this new user's group. To do this, I am doing the ...
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Why doesn't id-tool show latest added group?

I wanted to add myself to a group called vboxusers while the following situation occured: At first let's see how it looks before we do anything: $ id uid=1001(me) gid=1001(me) ...
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What is the equivalent user for nobody:nobody from CentOS?

I am converting from centOS and am used to having a nobody:nobody user:group for running services. Does Ubuntu have a similar best practice user:group combination for running a service?
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Cannot find name for group ID 127 [closed]

Can anyone help with my latest problem, 65 updates came through today and after rebooting I now have this message in Terminal. groups: cannot find name for group ID 127 I've done a cat /etc/group ...
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Change user's primary group - have new files made in that group

I am setting up an environment where I am giving several users SSH access on my server. They are all trusted, but I want to corral them into a segment of the filesystem. I created the users like so: ...
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Which groups should I normally belong to?

I accidently removed my user name from most of the groups it belonged to. I indeed miswrote sudo usermod -aG agmenor agmenor by forgetting the -a option. I found this question to add myself back to ...
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Which group do I need to add a user to to give them access to editing network connections?

I'd specifically like them to be able to use the Network Manager.
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What is the UID (user id) & GID (group id) that Samba Service using?

What is the default UID (user in) and GID (group id) that Samba service using? For an example, Apache2 runs as www-data, likewise what is the UID that Samba service using?
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Degrading administrative privilege to standard with single admin user account

I recently met with a severe issue with user accounts. In my system, there is only administrator user named vivek. I added another user with name vivi and changed its privilege to administrator. After ...
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Find out what account an application runs as

Im in the middle of trying to set up a tomcat environment on my development machine. Im having trouble running applications, and it looks like its down to file permissions. The directory containing ...
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What is the significance of the group created along side a user?

As I was reading answers to this question asking how to change usernames, a suggestion to change of the name of the group was also made in this answer. What is the significance of the groups whose ...
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Trouble authenticating and with groups. Phantom duplicate user account?

I'm sometimes having trouble authenticating and it seems I'm no longer a member of the 'admin' group. Or I am.... but I have two user accounts with the same name and only one of them is... or ...
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Where's admin tools gone in 11.10? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to manage users and groups? (GUI) In 11.10, with Unity, I do not see all the admin tools. Especially, I want to access "Users and Groups" tool. Where is it? Should I ...
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Adding user to a group - Why had to reboot?

I was not able to access the VirtualBox shared folder, so I made the user part of the vboxsf group. But, still not able to access it. Rebooting the guest resolved the problem. Is it a bug? A reboot is ...
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How to create a group which is allowed to use the adduser command?

Does anyone know the commands for each step listed below? Create a new sudoers group called privilege1 allowing the use of the adduser command and nothing more. The sudoers configuration file is ...
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Rote copying the settings/preferences of a user to other users [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: how to copy old user account to new user account? I have installed Ubuntu, with username andy, let's say I want to create accounts for ben, chris, dave and ethan, all ...
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How to prevent users from accessing root directory

While still allowing my account to access the root directory. I've tried adding myself to the root group with $ sudo adduser myaccount root but when I do $ sudo chmod o-r /etc followed by $ cd /etc $ ...
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Differences between first (initial) user and other users

The user created by Ubuntu on install is different than the ones you create using the "Users and Groups" tool - the user is "Custom" not "Administrator". Besides being able to "sudo", what are the ...
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Why is there a new Group for me as a User?

Why is it that when I install Ubuntu with a user name, a new group is created with that name too? Is there a reason we're not just plain Administrators?
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php server web user setup

I'm needing to setup a basic web user account on my ubuntu 10.10 server to host web pages. This account should be limited to access only the necessary directories on the machine. I setup the following ...
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Script to migrate unix users and groups

I'm migrating my Ubuntu 8.10 Server to 10.04. Is there any script to migrate users /etc/passwd and groups /etc/group along with password /etc/shadow from one server to another?
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How to create a user group that can only use one application?

I need create a special user group which is only allowed to login in to gnome and execute only one application. How can I do that?
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How to run an application at startup as a certain user?

Is there a way to have an application launch during startup under a certain user account? For example, I would like to have a_small_app run under the user account bob (which is in the group ...