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Inconsistent information in Active Directory Members and Member Of properties
I'm trying to get a list of the members of a group in Active Directory. I'm using LDAP queries, but I think that's not relevant. I've found what I believe to be an inconsistency in Active Directory's ...
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Active Directory / ADAM Group Name Uniqueness
Can I have 2 different groups in Active Directory in different containers that have the same name? For example, can I have an OU=baz that contains a group CN=foo and an OU=bar with a group CN=foo? ...
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Show all users and their groups/vice versa
I know I have existing groups and users but I'm not sure about their association. Is there an shell command I can use to list all users or all groups and a command to list all groups/users for a ...
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What are the User Groups assigned to administrator accounts in Windows Vista Home Basic? [migrated]
Windows Vista Home Basic does not have the local groups pane. How how can I tell what groups my user account is a member of?
I need to know so I can build an unattended installation, what group(s) ...
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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 ...
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External recipients in internal distribution groups
Just some backgroud, we have several users that are contracted to highly secure 3rd party locations they are not able to access webmail! Instead they are given temp user accounts and email address to ...
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Directory with read and write for a user is permission denied, but fine with execute permissions
I have some weirdness with my users/permissions. I currently have a user named world that has the groups world www-data admin. I have a directory at /var/abc which has the permissions 0644 or ...
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Assign log on as local admin to domain account
What I would like to do is grant permission for a domain account to log on to any server/workstation and be a local administrator with having to add this account to domain admin group?
This account ...
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How do you force an update to a user's group membership in Windows 7?
I am writing a web application that uses .NET Windows Authentication and relies on a user's group membership to Authorize them to various areas of the website. Right now I'm on a dev machine that IS ...
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mrepo and grouplist/groupinstall?, mrepo not working as expected with group
All,
I'm trying to set up mrepo so we can have internal repositories. After quite the slog, things seem to be working as expected EXCEPT for groups.
From man createrepo:
EXAMPLES
Here is an example ...
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Machine/Computer Groups in Active Directory
I was curious when a person should use Machine Groups within Active Directory? What are the common uses cases for them? How does one keep them up to date as machines are shuffled by a multi-tiered ...
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Maximum number of groups in Linux
I have several questions about linux groups
Is there a limit to the number of groups a user can create?
Is there a limit to the total number of groups in a system?
Is there a limit to the number of ...
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Cross-group file permissions in Linux
I have 2 users: Alice and Bob and 2 groups: Management and Personnel. Alice has primary group Management, and secondary groups Personnel and Alice. Bob has primary group Personnel and secondary group ...
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How can I set up a single user that can edit multiple sites' files with correct default permissions?
How can I achieve this setup:
There is a primary user that I use to ssh into the server and edit all files for multiple sites.
The various sites are stored in the /srv/www directory, so ...
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is there a good tool for viewing the permissions in AD?
I want to be able to see a nice picture of nested groups in AD. Are there any products that do that for me?
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Exchange 2003 - Internal only group allow external delivery
I have a situation, where there are users in a group, who are only allowed to email internally.
I have created an external domain, which i need to allow that internal group to be able to send to, but ...
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Find orphaned foreign security principals and remove them from groups
We have a Windows 2008 R2 Domain with multiple outgoing trusts.
In this domain we add the users from the trusted domains to domain local security groups.
It seems that some or all deleted accounts ...
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AD PrimaryGroupID, has it changed over time?
I am working on an IDM system connecting 1.5 million users, of which about 600K are synced to Active Directory. 2008R2 Functional level for the forest.
One of the issues that interests me is the use ...
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How can I configure a user group to authenticate to RADIUS while everybody else defaults to Active Directory for a VPN connection?
I currently have an NPS policy that forwards all VPN connections to RADIUS server for authentication. I need to modify this configuration so that a certain AD user group is either set up for Windows ...
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ubuntu mount nfs only if user is in group
I have basic-to-medium advanced network setup at my work. We run an ubuntu 10.04 fileserver serving a few different directories (including /home) over NFS and all client machines (various ubuntu ...
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DreamHost: Run each site under a different user, with one Webmaster account that can access all the files
As a measure to combat the problem of hitting DreamHost's "soft" (undisclosed) RAM limit on shared hosting, I'd like to try running each domain/subdomain under a different UNIX user.
I would also ...
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Prevent user “click-expansion” of Exchange distribution group?
I am a Unix guy who recently picked up powershell to help my Exchange admin coworkers implement a challenging project in Exchange 2010. (The requirements we've been given are challenging if not ...
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groups and owners with ftp
When a user "U" who is part of group "G" uploads a new file to the server with ftp , the permissions are set as U:U instead of U:G . I know the user is also part of his own group called "U" but how do ...
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How to create special groups and give them special process
I have many admins on the network and I want to specify job for them for example I want to create group responsible for install and run yahoo messenger means I don't want to give them full admin ...
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Creating user groups and assigning users in Windows Server 2008
I'm setting up an FTP server on a Windows Server 2008 r2 system. Rather than deal with setting filesystem permissions for users manually, I would like to simply grant a single group read/write access ...
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Jenkins/Hudson - LDAP group *lookup* does not work
I'm trying to get Jenkins to authenticate users via our active directory groups.
If I insert users they are correctly looked up.
If I insert group names, they are not found.
Edit: Through trial ...
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Managing Active Directory Group Membership with a Non-Administrator Account In Server 2008
I am running Server 2008 R2 in an Active Directory Domain Environment.
I have created a group in Active Directory and I have delegated management authority to that group to a user.
I want this user ...
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How do you discover what permissions an AD group has, if you have no documentation?
You just got hired at company A and the old administrator is no longer there. Requests start coming through for adding users to the internet restrict group. When you look at the groups none of the ...
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Active Directory Bulk Group Edit
Is there a way to update the "Managed By" field for every group in Active Directory? I would also need to check "Manager can update membership list" also.
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Linux computer (Debian) in a Windows Active Directory Domain, Administrator of AD should have root permission after login
I managed to join my Debian machine (Squeeze) to an existing Active Directory (MS Windows 2008 R2 Server). Everything works fine, I can login using accounts from the Active Directory (NTP, Kerberos, ...
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How to authenticate users in nested groups in Apache LDAP?
I've working LDAP authentication with the following setup
AuthName "whatever"
AuthType Basic
AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthLDAPUrl ...
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How do I enable group enumeration on a Linux server that is using LDAP to connect to an AD server?
I've got a set of servers that I need to authenticate against a central Active Directory forest. The AD admins have kindly installed the UNIX AD extensions and the NIS ones as well, so I've got a lot ...
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Is it possible to configure a service to run as a group and add users to that group on Windows XP?
Is it possible to configure a service to run as a group and add users to that group on Windows XP?
I need the service to have the permissions of the users in that group so that they can logonn, ...
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Planning sysadmin group permissions in Windows network
I need to set up a plan for organizing permissions for sysadmins in a 200-server Windows 2003/2008 network. The servers exist in 5 separate forests that are connected via 2-way trusts.
At the moment, ...
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Unable to get the SSH access for a new user
I created a new user on ubuntu 10
username: codeuser
There is an existing user called "admin". Now, my problem is that I cannot directly connect to the server using the codeuser credentials. But, I ...
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Would the AdminSDHolder security propegation affect group membership?
I'm having an issue where every time I add users to the Enterprise Admin group in AD they are shortly thereafter removed. I have Domain Admin rights. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with ...
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php server web user setup
I'm needing to setup a basic web user account on my ubuntu 10.10 server to host web pages. This account should be limited to access only the necessary directories on the machine. I setup the following ...
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`groups` ignores /etc/groups?
What could be going on here?
dylan/var$ ls -ld www
drwxrwxr-x 2 root webdev 4096 2011-03-19 05:13 www
dylan/var$ grep webdev /etc/group
webdev:x:1001:dylan
dylan/var$ touch www/test
touch: cannot ...
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usermod -g doesn't apply permissions right away?
I've noticed that when I add myself to a new group with usermod newgroup -g wayne I will have the group listed when I say groups, but if I were to do something such as
sudo mkidr ...
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Fixing Broken Groups
I just got onto a new project with the student government at my University and we're trying to get our webserver into a more workable state. The current problem is that all of us for some reason have ...
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ISA Server 2006 SP1 :: Any user group (even empty ones) applied to a rule - implements the rule for everyone
I have a rule to deny all access from internal and local host to external. I do no apply a user group and the rule is added to the configuration but obvious does not come into play.
As soon as I add ...
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List users in all specified unix groups
Is there an easy way to get a list of users who are in all specified groups?
For example, if I have the following users:
fred - rainbow, dell
jane - hp
zippy - rainbow, hp, dell
george - hp, dell
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How Can I Restrict FTP to a Particular Local Group?
I am running the FTP daemon VSFTPD. I'd like to control FTP access by adding users to a group such that only members of the defined group can access the FTP services. I am thinking I can do this by ...
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Centos Apache and Permissions (Sudoers maybe)
OS: CentOS 5.5
I have a 2 users which are part of a group. I would like to allow that group to be able stop and start Apache, but not grant access as root.
I have been looking at the Sudoers ...
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Cleaning Up Unused Users and Groups (Ubuntu 10.10 Server)
I'm very much a beginner when it comes to Ubuntu and I've been learning the ropes by diving in and writing a (backend-language independent) web app framework that relies on apache, some clever ...
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Discrepancies in `groups` output
why is it that when I execute groups the output doesn't contain the adm group, while the output of groups $USER has it? The user is supposed to be in that group.
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Exchange 2010 Distribution Group - Email Self
In exchange 2010 we have multiple distribution groups.
If i am a member of group TEST, and i send an email to this group, i will receive the email.
Is there a way of sending to everyone in the group ...
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Jail Linux user to directory for FTP login
I'm planning on using vsftpd to act as a secure ftp server, but I am having
difficulty controlling the linux users that will be used as ftp logins.
The users are required to be "jailed" into a ...
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dn-based linux groups from ldap
Is there any way to use one of LDAP's DN-based groups for linux groups instead of using the uid-based posixGroup objectclass?
More broadly, is there any way I can avoid having one set of groups for ...
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Managing Internal Yum Repository Groups
What is the best method for handling yum groups dependencies?
For example, take this comps.xml file
<comps>
<group>
<id>production</id>
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