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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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Groups and Symlinks, is this safe?

Im trying to serve similar content over two websites, but don't want to have 2 of each file, especially when they are growing. The basics, im running CentOS, with cPanel. Is it safe to do the following, I have folder downloads1 in…
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Samba groups not working

I am trying to get samba working with groups. I am using CentOS. #sswords = yes lanman auth = no null passwords = no hosts allow = 129.130.155. netbios name = a server server string = base PHP server [team$] path= /var/www writable = yes valid…
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After adding data files to a file group Is there a way to distribute the data into the new files?

I have a database in a single file group, with a single file group. I've added 7 data files to this file group. Is there a way to rebalance the data over the 8 data files other than by telling sql server to empty the original? If this is the only…
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Deployment and Ownership issues

As an extreme newbie, I am having difficulty managing ownership and permissions on my first box. What I can't figure out is how to deploy using one user, we will call him deploy and operate my php application with www-data user. Currently as it…
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Who should be the owner of a group of service accounts on Google Cloud Platform?

I have an app that requires a set of permissions to various resources on the Platform. I want to have several (say 2) service accounts for this app to separate production activity from dev. Generally Google recommends to avoid creating groups of…
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On Windows Server 2003, permissions are not propagating to a group that is a member of a group

Windows Server 2003 on i386. FTP server is running as the SYSTEM user/group. Some files we want served (read and write) are owned by the group 'ftp.' ftp has full read/write/whatever permissions on those files and directories. SYSTEM can't…
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Prevent an email address from going into Junkmail Domain Wide

The helpdesk has an email address and it all corespondense gets put into outlook junkmail. Is there a way to flag this address as not junk in group policy or exchange server? I know it can be done for a per user basis but that is a terrible way of…
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Why do users in the administrators group not show they are in the group from a sssd joined host?

Noticed that when running id usertocheck or groups usertocheck the users in the administrators group did not show that group listed. Checking on the windows dc with net user usertocheck shows Administrators group listed. Performing an ldap query of…
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Automatically add LDAP users to a local group

I manage about 100 servers running Alma Linux 9.1, each with multiple users. Historically we've had a single account "admin" that everyone logs into when working on a server. I'm moving us over to individual LDAP users via SSSD but have hit a…
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Setting up groups and roles correctly on Google Cloud Platform IAM

I have recently been reviewing our roles and IAM on our very small (but set up a long time ago) organization on GCP and realized that we don't have any Essential Contacts defined (https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/essential-contacts). I…
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LDAP auth for hosts : same user should have different posixgroup memberships while login to different machines(hosts)

Any idea on how to achieve following objective with openLDAP server with unix clients Objective : a) Each user should have separate access restrictions to different hosts(unix servers) through LDAP server settings b) Each such, logged in user (if…
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Synchronise Office 365 Group Members

Question: I have a list of internal users who are assigned to an office 365 group A. We now want to make other office 365 groups (B, C, ...) that will inherit/synchronize all users from group A and allow for additional external or internal users to…
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Users and groups not found, but exist in their respective files

I just encountered a bizarre condition on a Debian system I was working on. Out of nowhere, a program complained that its rungroup could not be found. After a bit of digging around, it seems like my system no longer thinks any users or groups exist…
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Google group only visible inside organization

I am owner of a Google group. I'm trying to use it to forward emails from AWS to group members so they can respond properly. However, messages sent to the group email address from outside the group cannot be sent. Every test email I send returns a…
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pam-auth-update update of /etc/pam.d/common-auth doesn't work

I'm trying to match a FreeIPA user to a local group via FreeIPA group membership. When testing the manual edit of common-auth it works. But I'm trying to generate the file with pam-auth-update so that it won't break after an upgrade of something at…
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