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Function of owning group versus ACL group permissions

Given the fact that we can give any number of groups rwx via POSIX ACL's is there any special privileges given to the owning group? For example, we can set any number of users with ACL's but only the ...
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how to login as a member of specific group

i want to login as a member of non primary group to create files whose owner as a member of non primary group of current user. -rwxr-xr-x 2 gowtham gowtham 4096 Sep 5 14:48 defaultNewFile ...
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Adding Windows user to Linux group; possible?

I have a NAS that runs on Linux and I connect to it from my Windows desktop. I noticed that all directory in that drive belongs to user 'root' and group 'root'. That effectively denies me the right to ...
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Samba: system group mapping

I have w2008R2 PDC and Linux server with samba and winbind. Now I'd like to add some domain users to Unix adm group in AD. Let's say I have adm group defined in AD, and every user from this group ...
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Group within group file permissions

I tried finding this on here, but couldn't so sorry if it's a duplicate. Say I have 2 groups and a user: group1, group2, user1 with the following structure: group1 is a member of group 2, user1 is a ...
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Group ID 501 cannot be found

A file in a directory has a Group ID "501" After checking /etc/group, Group ID "501" was not found how is that possible ?
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How do I set permissions for a directory so that files and directories created under it maintain group write permissions? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Make all new files in a directory accessible to a group I have a directory in which collaborative files / directories are stored. Say directory abc is owned by root and ...
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assigning files of a group to another one

I want to delete a group using groupdel command, but before doing this I want to assign all files belonging to this group to another one is there a way to do this? I know that I can use find / -gid ...
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linux permission, group member cannot write even with write permission

The logged in user is a member of a group that has a write permission on a folder. But when this user is trying to write something, "permission is denied". The log below summarizes the question: ...
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How can I change a user's default group in Linux?

Being new to Linux administration, I'm a little confused about the following commands: useradd usermod groupadd groupmod I've just finished reading the user administration book in the Linux/Unix ...
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What are the allowed group names for groupadd?

I followed these instructions to build Shadow, which provides the groupadd command. I am now getting an error when trying this: $ groupadd automake1.10 groupadd: 'automake1.10' is not a valid group ...