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The idea of groups exists across all major operating systems. Groups are objects that contain other objects, usually users. This allows for simplification of access control assignments when many people need access to the same resources.

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List All Groups and Their Members with PowerShell on Win2008r2

I am new to powershell, but I've been reading manuals and practiced a little bit. My objective is to List all users in all Security Groups under specified path. I have found the way to do it: get-adgroup -Filter * -SearchBase…
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find files NOT belonging to group

How do I find files not belonging to particular group? find /home -group NOT test
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Security Group vs Distribution Group

Within our AD set-up there are a lot of security groups, but only 1 distribution group (that a previous admin created). Both types of group contain lists of domain objects (users in the one I was looking at). What is the difference between a…
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Puppet: how to create and manage unix users and groups

This last week I spent all effort into learning Puppet. Now I suffer from a mental buffer overflow and little confidence of ever being able to tame this beast. I came across many annotated examples but due to their countless variations I fail to…
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Temporary membership to AD group

We restrict the running of exe's across the organization. But based on justifications & approvals we add users to (specific) AD groups for 24 hours. Currently the process of removing the users from those AD groups after X hours is manual. I am…
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What are the implications of converting all my groups to universal groups?

In Exchange 2010 distribution groups must be universal. This is supported by documentation You can create or mail-enable only universal distribution groups. I am trying to create a role based security group structure so that if someone leaves or…
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/etc/passwd shows user in a group, but /etc/group does not

I want to verify that the user account filesender_1 is a member of the group valid_senders. When I look at /etc/group, filesender_1 is not there: valid_senders:x:12345:production_1 I read this as "production_1 is the only member of the group…
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In SQL Server, when should you split your PRIMARY Data FileGroup into secondary data files?

Our database currently only has one FileGroup, PRIMARY, which contains roughly 8GB of data (table rows, indexes, full-text catalog). When is a good time to split this into secondary data files? What are some criteria that I should be aware of?
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SQL Server 2005 / 2008 - multiple files / filegroups - how many? Why?

I'm a developer at heart - but every now and then, a customer doesn't have a decent DBA to deal with these issues, so I'm called in to decide.... What are your strategies / best practices when it comes to dealing with a reasonably sized SQL Server…
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How to add a domain user to the local admin group remotely?

I need to add a domain user in the local administrator group remotly and I have to the local admin password
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Does Linux keeps a cache of groups members if on LDAP ? (Difference between groups vs getent group))

Our users and groups LDAP configuration is working. Our server is using LDAP to store users and groups. # /etc/nsswitch.conf : passwd: compat ldap group: compat ldap shadow: compat ldap But today we added a new group in…
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Can I "merge" two groups using SID history?

I have two AD groups which were erroneously created while there should instead have been only one group; they contain the exact same users. However, these groups have been assigned various permissions on variuos resources (like file shares), and I'm…
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Creating a Dynamic Group in Active Directory with users from a OU

I would like to create a dynamic group with users from a specific OU in my Active Directory. I can do this perfectly using Exchange Dynamic Distribution List, but of course, Ex DDL's are only for mail. There's any way to create this? I've found some…
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What are the consequences of an AD group that has as its member a group, that is already a member (Cyclic references)

I have been looking at an Active Directory that has several thousand groups, where pairs of groups are members of each other. GroupA has GroupB as a Member. GroupB has GroupA as a Member. Oy. I am trying to think through possible consequences of…
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How do I set the default group for a vsftpd user's uploads? (ubuntu 10.04)

How do I set the default group for a vsftpd user's uploads? When I upload a file, the files group is set to the username... How do I get it to automatically set to a specific group?
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