Questions tagged [group]
All about Unix groups and access control.
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Debian/dpkg handle group id collision
In my network there is a special user group with the ID 101. Unfortunatelly, Debian wants to use the ID 101 for the group systemd-journal.
Since it exists only locally, I assigned systemd-journal the ...
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different output for groups and groups USERNAME after adding a username to a group
I stumble across a weird behaviour today.
After adding a user to a new group like so :
# gpasswd -a test myuser
then connecting to a new bash session, here are the result for groups and groups ...
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How can we add multiple users to a group by single command in Linux?
I have to use
usermod -G groupname username
everytime to add user to group.
Isn't there any way to do it by single line like
usermod -G groupname user1,user2,user3
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Added a new user on Ubuntu, set password not working?
I created a new user:
$ sudo useradd -m Ari -p pass123
But when I went to login it said the password was incorrect, I know it's correct because I saved the command line log as a text file.
Other ...
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logout/login not enough to update group membership
I just added myself to "docker" group on my workstation.
I dutifully logged out and in again on my desktop environment but I'm still not on the group:
mcon@cinderella:~$ id
uid=1000(mcon) gid=1000(...
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Compare groups two linux users belong to
If someone asks, does userA belong to the same groups as userB, is there an easy way to compare the group memberships of these users? If groups are small in size you can easily inspect, but if the ...
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Group ownership modification - pitfalls
I'm user user and my primary group is user. If I change my primary group to primary_group, all of the files owned by me are suddenly owned by primary_group.
This was unexpected to me. If group user ...
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CIFS permission issues when mounting a NTFS partition
I'm attempting to mount an NTFS file share.
sudo mount.cifs //address.fileshare.com/TestMount /home/me/TestMount -o username=MyUserName,domain=MyDomain,uid=MyUserName,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777, ...
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What is the signifance of the Primary Group of a user?
Why must a user in POSIX-compliance have a Primary Group? Why can't they just belong to groups?
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Which owner group does `ls -l` show?
When the file owner is part of several groups, how does ls -l decide which group to show? For example, on MacOS, I see
drwx------+ 48 flow2k staff 1536 Feb 5 10:11 Documents
drwxr-xr-x+...
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Unable to add user to a group due to sssd?
I'm working on Fedora 29 x86_64 fully patched. I'm trying to add my user to the dialout group so I can open the modem:
$ ls -Al /dev/ttyUSB0
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 188, 0 Feb 22 19:27 /dev/...
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How to empty the list of supplementary group IDs for a process?
When I create a child process, it inherits the supplementary gids of the parent. If the parent is a root, then the child has (0) as supplementary gid. This behavior is not desired.
Is it possible to ...
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Unable to access group files even though user is part of the group
I am trying to access a directory test as user ayush.
This directory is owned by user ayush and has group git
The directory has permissions 0070, and group git, and ayush is a member of that group.
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Directory owned by a group that doesn't exist? [duplicate]
I'm witnessing a a directory which has for group owner "1002" ...
However I do not have any group with such ID (verified with getent group | grep 1002 ).
Even history | grep groupadd gave nothing.
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Mass Assign Users to Groups
I have 2 text files, users.txt with a list of 1000 users and groups.txt with a list of 50 groups. I want to run a command that adds 30 users to each group (ex: users 1-30 to group 1, users 31-60 to ...
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if the member of any group has only the execute permission will the be able to enter into the directory belongs to that group?
# mkdir -p /test/music # created this dir as a root
# chmod g=x,o= /test # rwx--x---
# gpasswd -a x1 root # adding x1 user into the root group
# su - x1 # login as x1
$ cd /test
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ID inheritance – Which IDs?
I'm learning UNIX file permissions / ID inheritance and would like to clarify something:
I have this list of permissions, users, groups and files:
-rwxr-xr-x userA A foo
-rw-rwsr-x userB B bar
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Why does the primary group of my user show up in /etc/group?
I'm following a course about Linux and it states the following: "The primary group of a user is not mentioned in the /etc/group file."
However, my primary user "timgeldof" actually does show up in ...
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Adding user to a group with correct permissions and access to directory still denied [duplicate]
I have a directory 'ad' with permissions: drwxrwx---, for devpro devpro
I added devst to devpro group with:
usermod -a -G devpro devst
If I use id command for devst I get:
devst
If I use ...
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Folder group ownership permissions and problems
I have created a folder called /home/projects, to do this I had to use sudo mkdir /home/projects because it's inside the home folder.
Initially the folder had these permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 4 root ...
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Inconsistency between “getent group” and “getent group <groupname>” – why?
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How is the following possible?
$ getent group | grep docker
$ getent group docker
docker:x:600:
Note that the first call doesn’t return anything while the second one does.
grpck doesn’t ...
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How to organize /home/ such that users don't see each other's content?
Up to know, I used a sandbox server for myself only, and websites were in subdirectories of /home/www/:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 30 14:45 www
|--- drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Oct 14 ...
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How to add existing user to an existing group in centos 7?
I'm trying to add an existing user called Jim, to the current group called hoho, that I've created. I've looked up the command, and this is all I got.
useradd -g hoho Jim
Then when I checked to ...
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Who are the users in the default groups [closed]
I am learning command line currently in ubuntu Linux and am using a tutorial video that has shown me how to add and delete groups. When I view the groups in /etc/group file after using the command cat ...
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Freshly installed Wireshark with enabled non-root listen users is not able to listen
I have Linux Mint 19 64-bit Cinnamon.
I have just installed wireshark-gtk with:
sudo apt-get install wireshark-gtk
while installing I was asked this:
Answering Yes as you can see, as I am the sole ...
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Silent failure adding user to group
As part of an environment setup script we have the following snippet which installs docker:
if [ ! "$(docker -v)" ]; then
infoMessage "Setting up Docker..."
echo "Updating system packages.."
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RHEL 7.5 - How to remove user from a group?
usermod does not have an option to remove user from a group
Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN
Options:
-c, --comment COMMENT new value of the GECOS field
-d, --home HOME_DIR new ...
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Can a user reside in one group, but write from another? [duplicate]
We have group Apache and, let's say, "District" group.
All our team members are part of "District" group.
Apache user is part of "Apache" group, and does a lot of work on our server, creating and ...
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What is the difference between calling “id -G” and “id -G -r”?
I know the -r flag should print the real group the user is in. But since -G already prints all his groups, does this make a difference?
What does id -gr xxxsome_user really print out? How can a user ...
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KDE SC 5.10.5 on Kubuntu 17.10 / After logging in, user has only primary group assigned
Some time ago (can't tell exactly when, but it's been one week at least), users logging into KDE on this system stopped being assigned membership to their supplementary groups.
For example, user "...
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Unable to add user to a new group as default as the user has its name same as old group
I am using Red Hat Linux 6.
Have a username 'nrajora' and a group name 'nrajora' as default in the system
I created a new group 'super-group' which has all the required privileges.
Now I am trying ...
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How to retrieve information of a user?
After running below commands,
[root@u87 ~]# getent group somegroup
somegroup:*:2441:someuser
[root@u87 ~]#
[root@u87 ~]#
[root@u87 ~]# cat /etc/group | grep somegroup
[root@u87 ~]#
[root@u87 ~]# cat ...
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Unable to add entry in /etc/group
Ran below commands to create a group
[root@u87 ~] # groupadd -g 2441 somegroup
groupadd: group 'somegroup' already exists
[root@u87 ~]# cat /etc/group | grep somegroup
[root@u87 ~]#
[root@u87 ~]#
[...
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Where are supplemental groups coming from in /proc/pid/status, are they always inherited from a shell?
In /proc/pid/status we can see all the supplemental groups for the pid (My understanding is this is assuming it was forked from an interactive shell or the process did getgroups(2))
I want to know ...
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What is the case of “a process running with extra privileges process can draw upon”?
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/18290/674
The kernel view
Conceptually, there are three sets of groups that a process is a
member of. Each set is a subset of the following one.
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In `/etc/passwd`, can different usernames for the same user ID have different group IDs?
From The Linux Programming Interface, about /etc/passwd:
It is possible (but unusual) to have more than one record in the
password file with the same user ID, thus permitting multiple login
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Can a superuser process change the real user ID and group ID of a process, not matching those in the password file?
From APUE
The real user ID and real group ID of a process identify who we really are. These two fields are taken from our entry in the password file when we log in. Normally, these values don’t ...
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Can't access folder with group permissions
It seems that I can't access a folder on which I put 777 group permissions, even though I am a member of the folder's group.
Error detail :
10:57 ~ $ ls -l
d---rwx--- 2 laurent www-data 4096 août ...
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Equivalent to NFS all_squash
I have an unusual requirement where I need to mount the same filesystem on a client multiple times, but each mount offering a different view of the underlying data, based on the group permissions of ...
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Why is there a different result when running as user1 and su - user1 -c “command”?
When running as user1 in the same directory (/home/user1/WWW)
[user1@server1 WWW (master)]# touch c
Creates the file c inside the directory.
[root@server1 WWW (master) ACCEPTATIE SERVER]# su - ...
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What must be added to nsswitch.conf to show AD users and groups?
This is a follow-up to this question.
I have a CentOS 7 machine which has joined a domain FOOBAR. It is possible to successfully get info about users stored in the AD via
id user@FOOBAR.GLOBAL
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sudo does not recognize new group
Why won't sudo recognize my group, in a fresh login after using groupadd?
Our DigitalOcean CentOS comes with a borked sudo implementation. It's the following script, note well line #2:
$ nl $(which ...
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Permissions Error
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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Missing groups at each startup
Logging out and logging back in do not fix this problem. Rebooting does not fix this problem.
NOTE: Please do not mark this question as a duplicate, I'm aware of this question: I added a user to a ...
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Groups not registering in X
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. When I use LightDM to login and start X, I see that my secondary groups aren't loaded (running "groups" reports that I belong only to my primary group). If I log in via ...
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What is the application of file ownership (chown) in linux?
I have faced a problem in changing the permissions for a specific group of users in my system.
suppose I have four users u1,v1 and u2,v2 and two groups g1 and g2. u1,v1 are in g1 group and u2,v2 are ...
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How to add user to a group using bash scripting? [closed]
I am having hard time adding a user to a group in script. For example, I have a script that asks user to answer several questions, and if answers are correct, that user should be added to a certain ...
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User can delete file with read permission only
I created user small, added him to group kek and allowed that group to only read files in user home directory. Then I chowned all files to root:kek.
However, small still can delete files in his home ...
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Why give mysql group the same GID as sudo group?
I'm following installation/setup instructions in the MySQL Secure Deployment Guide, which say to create the mysql group with:
groupadd -g 27 -o -r mysql
The -o permits adding a group with a non-...
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Need to split a file into multiple files, but ensure the grouped data remains in same file [duplicate]
This question is not a duplicate, because here we need also to ensure, that group of common values/rows remain in the same split file (and is not scattered across multiple split files).
All, I tried ...
