Questions tagged [groups]
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Terminal shows that my user is only a member of its group, but it is not true - how to fix?
I went to strange situation on my laptop (running Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS).
All terminals show that my sudo-able user is only a member of its group:
$ whoami
norbert
$ groups
norbert
$ id
uid=1000(...
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how give permission for reset apache without admin permission?
my user don't have admin permission and i do not want to give admin permission to them.
how give permission that they see log and reset and change config in apache?
is there apache admin group that ...
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What is the significance of the output of cat /etc/group? [duplicate]
When I run cat /etc/group on Ubuntu 18.04, I get this output:
root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:syslog,hani
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
man:x:12:
proxy:x:...
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How to list groups with no users
I am new to Linux, using Ubuntu 18.04.
I am learning about user management commands.
I am experimenting with creating and deleting users.
When I created "user1" a new group "user1" is created.
When I ...
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Access denied despite group privileges
I added new user to group 'lambda', changed the group of testFile to lamda and gave group permissions with 'chmod 550 testFile'. When I check with 'ls -l' and in etc/group these changes have been ...
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Can a user also be a group itself?
In my Ubuntu 16.04 terminal, logged in as "john" (a normal user), I enter:
john@ubuntu-server:~$ groups john
Then the output goes:
john: john adm ......
So I wonder how john can be a user and a ...
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User group membership appears to be empty [duplicate]
I appear to be having issues with group membership for the single user on my Ubuntu laptop. I found this initially when trying to access a USB stick and finding I was getting access denied. I checked ...
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Adding permissions for a given user automatically modifies group permissions? [duplicate]
m@m-VirtualBox:~$ mkdir -m 0755 bsk1
m@m-VirtualBox:~$ ls
drwxr-xr-x 2 m m 4096 oct 9 13:38 bsk1
m@m-VirtualBox:~$ getfacl bsk1
# file: bsk1
# owner: m
# group: m
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x
So ...
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Can I define a parent group and children groups?
In Linux is it possible to create a master group and some children groups?
What is the problem?
I need to give read permission to the users belong to group1 and group2.
I cannot add all users of ...
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Group based Acces with Samba
Right now I got 2 groups:
ACL_share_EDIT
ACL_share_READ
My goal is to have members of both groups access the share, while EDIT can, well, edit files and folders on the share, while members of the ...
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Delete folders owned by specific group?
I have loads of folders and files in the storage system, files and folders created by a specific group needs to be removed, but I can't find any smart quick way to do it. Not via find or anything.
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Groups,User and PostgreSQL access rights
I have a web app that uses a PosgreSQL database.
To use the database I use the following command:
sudo -u postgres psql
I think, this is very basic, so I'm looking for something like:
not all ...
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how should `id` and `/etc/group` be read?
This is a follow-up question to Why is a user not a member of their private group (UPG)? although the first question isn't really necessary to understand this one.
The command id seems pretty clear......
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Why is a user not a member of their private group (UPG) according to the GUI? (although CLI proves the opposite…)
I downloaded the current iso file of Ubuntu MATE from the website.
I did a completely fresh install of Ubuntu MATE 16.04 (specifically 16.04.5).
the same is true for Ubuntu MATE 18.04 (specifically ...
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User not in group despite /etc/group contents
I added a new group (call it newgroup)
sudo groupadd newgroup
I then added my existing user (call him myuser) to newgroup
sudo usermod -a -G newgroup myuser
I log out and back in, and I check /etc/...
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Groups for logged in user are missing [duplicate]
I am seeing a weird issue with my laptop installed with Ubuntu. When I log in and enter a terminal, I am missing groups:
~$ groups
ant
If I explicitly specify the username, I see all the groups:
~$ ...
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Ubuntu logs me back in immediately after logout [closed]
A few days ago I noticed that when I log out of Ubuntu 16, the screens go black and then I am immediately logged back in again. I do not have autologin enabled.
Observations of other strange ...
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File group has changed without me changing it
I was working with a file today that I don't own. I copied it to a /tmp folder, gave myself sudo permissions and then changed the owner to myself using chown. I then made my changes.
Afterwords I ...
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How to recover from accidentally removing the sudo group
I am using Ubuntu 18.04. I accidentally removed the sudo group. Is there any way to recover from this? I still have access to the root account. I tried to add the sudo group again with the root user, ...
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Lost supplementary user groups for GUI login session
Ubuntu 16.04.5
Very weird situation - after Xorg crash, now every time when I login into Unity, my user account doesn't have it's system groups like adm, sudo, plugdev, fuse etc. But when I login on ...
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Secondary user groups not loaded
After the apt-get update and apt-get upgrade run few days ago, user groups are not applied properly to the currently logged-in user.
I can see all the groups being properly saved in the /etc/passwd ...
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VBoxManage is not lauching vm
So I have two users on my Ubuntu Machine 1.) vishal 2.) cuckoo
I installed VirtualBox by logging in as Cuckoo user. But now I am logging in as vishal user and then from terminal I am becoming cuckoo ...
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Users unable to access group folder
I have a folder in an AD login environment:
drwxrwx--- 4 tbest3 cri-meltzer_anemia 102 Jul 11 11:06 Anemia
drwxrwx--- 4 339776130 339820461 102 Jul 11 11:06 Anemia
These two ...
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All of a sudden I'm getting permission errors
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS and facing a problem.
All of a sudden I'm unable to edit files that I could before, I cannot run programs due to permission errors.
I'm always logged in as a user ejaz ...
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How do I check that my users and groups are correct?
I have many Ubuntu-powered devices around me.
As far I know /etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow are created during installation, so they do not belong to any package:
$ dpkg -S /etc/passwd
dpkg-...
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groupmems asks for password for root
I have a few scripts that use groupmems to view and modify what users are in a group.
The script runs as root. In Ubuntu 18, it has started to ask for a password, even thou I run as root:
root@ubu18:~...
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After adding a group, logout+login is not enough in 18.04?
In ubuntu 18.04 with default desktop, behaviour of logout/login has changed:
Previously on an Ubuntu system, when I find that I need to add my user id to some group, it was sufficient to
sudo ...
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Can't delete user from group with ldapdeleteuserfromgroup
I have user accounts with usernames that are numerical (I know Ubuntu doesn't like that, sorry)
In this case, I have a username 18000011 who is a member of the group students:
~$ groups 18000011
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How can I prevent unprivileged users from accessing /etc/passwd, /etc/group, etc
As the title suggests, I have a multi user environment, and in the interest of protecting privacy, I'd really like to be able to restrict users access to some of these publicly viewable files that ...
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How to remove Rouge user group
I was messing around with Apache and Webmin/Virtualmin and it created a new user. I added my user to the new users' group. It didn't yield the result I was looking for, so I deleted the user via ...
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Unable to create user on Ubuntu Server with Ansible
I run the following ansible script on my Centos and Ubuntu servers.
- name: add user testuser1
user:
name: "testuser1"
state: present
groups: "wheel"
The script worked fine on Centos ...
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Why didn't my user get assigned to the group I had added myself to?
I'm on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 18.04. During installation, I chose the minimal installation instead of the standard one.
I just added myself to the docker group using the following command
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Proper way of creating users and restricting permissions?
I want to create a user, allocate a home directory to the user and restrict their rwx permissions such that they can only stay/view the home directory. I want to hide /etc/apache2 and /var/www mainly.
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groupadd on Ubuntu 16.04 with PBIS Open stuck with 100% CPU
I have Ubuntu 16.04 servers and workstations which are members of an Active Directory domain, using PowerBroker PBIS Open versions 8.5.0.153 and 8.6.0.427. When I try to add a local group using ...
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Add permission to multiple group to a folder
Suppose I have this situation (user : groups):
userA : groupA all mix1
userB : groupB all mix1
userC : groupC all mix2
userD : groupD all
Suppose I have read access to "folderX" to user "userA" and ...
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Cannot login after adding user to group
I was trying to install amdpro divers, so followed the instructions and after installing the driver run this command:
sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME
After that, I'm locked out of the PC.
To ...
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Linux (ubuntu) Permission confusion
Please, take a look at the following CMD
[thunder@ip-xxx-xx-xx-xx /]$ id
uid=504(thunder) gid=504(thunder) groups=504(thunder)
[thunder@ip-xxx-xx-xx-xx /]$ grep developers /etc/group
developers:x:...
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Create a series of Organization Managed computers
I am wondering if it is possible to create a computer running Ubuntu with an "organization" on it -- Similar to when moment of disgust due to the mention of Chromebooks... Chromebooks mention that ...
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Difference between adduser and usermod -G -a
What is the difference between
adduser user_name group_name
and
usermod -G -a user_name group_name
At first glance they seems to do the same thing : add a user to a group.
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What is the permission group 'others' in Linux file system?
Is the group 'others' required for file permissions? Aren't 'user' and 'group' only groups try to read/write/execute file at any given moment?
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What is the difference between the default user group and root group?
Suppose I have a directory with default permission
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 11 23:47 webtorrent-desktop/
I will Change only the owner
$ sudo chown -R sandy webtorrent-desktop
drwxr-xr-x ...
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write permission [duplicate]
I'm trying to solve a problem about write permission.
I have the user mamuth in the group www-data, i used the command:
adduser mamuth www-data
Running:
cat /etc/group | grep mamuth
Results with:
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Prevent new users from being added to a group with the same name as user name and instead add to generic group?
I need to add several new users to a system. Each of these users should be a member of the same group - appdev - and should not be assigned to a group that is the same as their user name.
Can I do ...
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Users can't access samba AD shares
We moved up from a 3.x NT-type Samba server and built a new AD server using the SambaWiki, methodically making sure each step and test worked correctly. It's fine in administrator or Domain Admin mode,...
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Run TTY script every time I open a GUI terminal
When I log in to a TTY I get the following nice text:
Ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS
Log-in: username
Password:
Last log-in date/time
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS
* Documentation:
* Management:
* Support:
...
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Group shares not listed by smbtree, nautilus due to not asking for password
We recently migrated to Samba 4.4.16 (from 3.5.15).
Our configuration contains a number of shares which have group access only (@group or +group) which map to unix groups. Here's an excerpt of the ...
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iptables: drop all but group
I have this rule, which is working to block all connections for this group:
iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -m owner --gid-owner has-internet -j DROP
I want to modify it to block all connections besides this ...
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What is the purpose of the group named “users”?
On my Ubuntu a group "users" with id 100 exists. But it has no members at all.
My questions are:
What is the purpose of this group?
Should each user of the system become a member of this group?
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Can't write in a shared directory
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and want to create a shared directory, but after creating it, I'm not able to create files in it even if I'm member of the group.
Here is what I did and what I got:
It works ...
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Lock Gsettings Schemas for Only Members of a Certain Group
Does anyone have any idea on a way to lock Gsettings Schemas, so that they can't be overwritten, but only lock them for members of a certain group, so that members of said group can't overwrite the ...
