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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What user/group should I make my web folders?
Server: debian4 / apache2 / php5
I have a vps and i usually only run websites that I administer, so I have loaded everything up under one username.
Now I have an external developer doing some work, ...
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Professional Groups and Associations
After reading How valuable do you find professional memberships? I thought it would be useful to list the various professional groups and associations available.
Discussion of the value (or not) of ...
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How valuable do you find professional memberships?
I've been a sysadmin for the better part of a decade, but only in the past few years have I really been interested in really bettering myself and the profession. To that end, I joined LOPSA (it was ...
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Groups and Permissions: Nested UNIX groups
We are getting more and more outside developers (from different clients) and are beginning to need a better strategy than adhoc adding to our server and adding to them ourcompany group (which owns ...
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What are the default groups assigned to the first user in Ubuntu Server? [closed]
I just made a silly mistake on my Ubuntu Server box: I added myself to a group using usermod -G, after which I discovered the -a option...
The result is that I am now out of the admin group, and ...
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OpenSolaris: Remove user from a group from command line
How can I remove a user from a group from the command line in OpenSolaris (2008.11)?
I know I can define a user's primary group and a add a user to a group with:
usermod -g primarygroup user
usermod ...
