I have centos 5.4 installed (2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jul 14 06:36:37 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux), and I am using WHM/Cpanel to manage my server. I am looking for a GUI utility, so I can graphically manage users/groups.
View 1 RepliesI have a Samba File Server that can authenticate users in my Windows AD to log into the server. Anyways, I have a good amount of Windows Admins on staff but our org wants to cut budget so our first "slash" as it were is cutting down the actual Windows based File Servers.So my question is, now that I have this test server up and authenticating for logins using Windbind....is there a way I can get system-config-samba to "see" winbind users and groups so that file servers can still be "point and click" for my Windows Admins?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have setup a Centos5.5 VMWare guest with Samba and Winbind for Active Directory integration, using GUI tools. Authentication works flawlessly, with automatic home directory creation. What I want to achieve now is using local UNIX groups to controll access to shared folders, to avoid bothering AD administrators with groups management. This is my smb.conf global section:
workgroup = COGITANS
password server = domainserver.hq.cogitans.it
realm = HQ.COGITANS.IT
security = ads
[code]....
'finance' is a local UNIX group where I added user 'COGITANSalberto' (I also tried with 'alberto') as a secondary group (primary group is 'domain users' and it cannot be changed). I am sure the user is added, because it is listed in 'getent group'. If I specify user COGITANSalberto in valid users it works, i.e. only that use can access the share, the others get a NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error. But if I use +finance, access is denied to everybody, and this is the log:
[2010/09/11 14:12:37, 10] smbd/share_access.c:user_ok_token(211)
User COGITANSalberto not in 'valid users'
[2010/09/11 14:12:37, 2] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(617)
user 'COGITANSalberto' (from session setup) not permitted to access this share (finance)
[code]....
It seems like winbind cannot recognize finance as a local group. For the same reason, I guess, 'force group = finance' does not work either (files are created with 'domain users' group ownership). My /etc/nsswitch.conf:
passwd: files winbind
shadow: files winbind
group: files winbind
Grants and ownership on the '/repositories/shared/finance' folder are
root:domain users with permissions 775
Basically if you go through System > Administration > Users and Groups then I do not get prompted for a password, I cannot see the root account, nor can I add/modify other accounts.
I understand that Ubuntu has now moved away from allowing the root account desktop access which is ok by me even though it's very much in line with something Apple would do. (odd that this comes right after Ubuntu went all apple style with the default theme too.) However, I would like to add other accounts to the machine, for my wife and anyone else i choose for example. Anyways, pushing the "add" button does nothing. Thankfully the "help" button did work which allowed me to do the following workaround.
I managed to get around this by working through the command prompt, open terminal:
user> sudo -i
type in your password
root> users-admin
This allows the addition of accounts, also seems it allows the root account to be enabled though I haven't bothered to test it. The one thing I'll say is that it runs VERY SLOW!
I am logged in with the account i created with ubuntu back in 10.4 but i cant do anything with the users and groups management tool any idea's what might be wrong? It also doesnt ask to escalate provilages when i run it which i suspect is part of the issue.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm running 10.10 64-bit and have configured it for root graphical login for administration of the system. When I log in as root, I can run all menu items in System -> Administration with the exception of Users and Groups. When I try running this, the application starts, but I only get an animated spinning disk that doesn't stop, can't modify the users properties and I can't close the application unless I go to System -> Administration -> System Monitor -> Processes tab , highlight users-admin and click End Process.
View 6 Replies View RelatedIf there are more tools that can be used to add users and groups, can someone direct me on how to find this information out, or can someone compile a list of tools?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to nest groups so that users can access directories owned by other groups?
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow to add users to groups with ldap? Further, could someone point me towards some good command-line management tools? Creating each dn manually is going to get old real fast...
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am used to setting up users and groups on my daughters computers with Ubuntu installed.
user: magz (daughter)
user: nigel (me)
group: nima
We each have our own folder for files i.e. magz and nige. This has always worked well and it didn't matter which user is logged in we could create and access files in the other users folder with full permissions.
root@nbsq: /media/2xfi/files# ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 9 nigel nima 4096 Jul 13 09:45 magz
drwxrwxr-x 3 nigel nima 4096 Jul 13 09:45 nige
I have finally got around to getting her to try Debian which I always use, however I have never had to set up users, groups etc in Debian (squeeze) so I just did what I'm used to with Ubuntu. What I've found is that if I create a folder while I am logged in then that folder cannot be accessed by my daughter when she is logged in and the same applies if she creates a folder then I cannot access it when I am logged in, unless of course I use terminal to change the owners. In each case with the new folder the owner will be: root and the group will be: root. I would have thought what works for Ubuntu would work for Debian, however there must be differences.
Running Wheezy with an XFCE desktop. Is there anything I can install to manage users and groups from a gui
View 2 Replies View RelatedImported users and groups (UIDs 500 and above) from Redhad to Ubuntu 9.10 by appending users to the passwd, shadow and group files. Users and groups appear to work, but they do not show in the Users/Groups GUI. Is that because they do not start at a UID 1000 and up? What are my options to make them visable?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow do you create users and groups by using CLI tools?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI upgraded from 8.04LTS to 10.04LTS desktop. I can do sudo as root at the terminal, but I can't pass authentication trying to add a user (System->Administration->Users and Groups).
Here is what I got: An error occurred while checking for authorizations: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. You may report this as a bug.
I recently tried installing a new version of VirtualBox PUEL version, after uninstalling an earlier version. But the major issue I have now is that I can no longer modify my User Settings. Clicking on the "Autnenticate" icon gets me a failure notice: "System policy prevents modifying the system configuration", with details reading "Action: org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set". Hovering over this link says to click on the link to edit the file, but nothing happens. Searching the file system tells me this file does not exist. Prior to this episode with VirtualBox, I had no trouble modifying Users and Groups. I was able to remove a group from the command line, but the cannot get the GUI authorization to work. I have searched the forums and bugs for similar problems, and, although there appear to be a number of similar issues, no where can I find any clear information on how this system is supposed to work, or what I need to do to correct the problem.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently installed 10.10 on a Mac Powerbook G4. Everything seems to be working ok, except I cannot access the Users and Groups. If I try to launch it from the terminal I get the following error: "Glib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.system-tools.users' is not installed"
This is a clean install, with no changes made to the system. I then ran all the waiting updates and am still experiencing this problem.
I am building a livecd, the live user created at boot time is a member of the audio group set in /etc/group. This way works for the livecd but when installed a user must manually add himself to the audio group. How can I set new users to automatically become a member of the audio group? In /etc/default/useradd I can set only one group.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've just set up NIS on my home network (probably not necessary on this scale, but I wanted to try it out). The server and the clients are all running Debian Lenny. I've got it up and running and have my NIS users on the server logging into graphical desktops on a client machine.My problem is this: The users cannot access a lot of services that are native to the client because they're not members of the right groups (for example, they have no sound because they're not members of the audio group). I figured it would be easy; just add users to groups with the usermod command but the response I get is that the user in question is not present in /etc/passwd. If I understand NIS correctly I'm not supposed to add my users to /etc/passwd on the client machines.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI installed F14, then dropped in my passwd, group, and shadow from F9 w/o backing up
what F14 had done. So now I get some messages about missing users like rtkit
and missing groups.
Is there an easy way to find out what default users and groups F14 would have installed?
I have a folder at /home/www/, and the owner is www, which is part of the www-group. I have another user, john, part of the john group. How can I chown /home/www/ to make it writable by both www and john?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm currently running a small server using 9.10 and I wondered if using groups was a possible route in order to keep users away from the bulk of the file system and keep them in locked their home directories.
What I planned to do is use a group named 'allowsystemfiles' to be added to admin accounts, then to set parts of the file system to that group, along with the permissions 0760 to keep non-admin users out.
Is is a good idea or will this hose my system?
I successfully configured a VPN using IPSec(Openswan) and xl2ptd. While roughly following this guide (among countless others): [URL]
The VPN-Connection works fine, connecting to it is also a swirl, I can reach all that I want in the network, and also the gateway to the Internet works - everything being routed through that VPN.
Now my problem is actually the next steps, and I didn't succeed finding the right result on any possible search:
a) I want to limit, that the VPN-Connection is only used for distinct connections to hosts, that aren't in a "company subnet", but the IP's are publicly available. (Example: The Target-IP 8.8.8.8 allows per iptables, that only my VPN-Host 1.2.3.4 accesses it via SSH, and thus I only can access that Target-IP via SSH when I'm on the VPN). When actually browsing to the ubuntu-website, I want, that NOT the VPN-Connection is used but rather my normal connection (as a reference: i'm on a Windows-Client - not my choice, btw.)
b) I want to have several such "limitations" grouped, and give users 'access-rights' to certain hosts (Examples: Admin gets access to all on all ports Testers get access to some machines on distinct ports CEO gets access only to the mailserver via POP3 or IMAP
this directory has permissions 750 and is owned by user1 and group user1 I have an admin user that is primarily a part of group admin, but also a part of group user1 what would stop admin from having read and execute permissions on this directory? I'm running clamav and have a clamd daemon running as user admin (I could run it as any user, and I may make a special user later, but I don't want to run it as user1, user2, etc).
I have 2 (technically lots more, but let's just say 2 for now) users, user1 and user2 that have home directories /home/user1 and /home/user2. each is owned and group owned by user1:user1 and user2:user2 respectively with permissions of 750. my admin user is part of groups admin, user1, and user2 I need this to be able to scan my user's directories using the command (is this correct?):
clamdscan --move=/files/quarantine/ --config-file=/etc/clamd.d/adm.conf /home/user1/file
doing this gives the error:
/home/user1/file: lstat() failed. ERROR
If I change the directory permissions to 755, it works fine.Or if I leave the permissions 750 and change the directory group ownership to admin, it works fine. So, why would this be? Obviously it is a permissions issue, but why is it not reading admin as part of the user1 group and allowing the same permissions as it does when making the directory group-owned by admin?
Is this possible to make groups members of a group (the same way aliases work for the mailing system). If not is there a painless way to make all my nis users members of more than one local groups? Maybe set this on the nis side and not per machine setup?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI realize I can add a new user in a terminal, but it's a little easier to use the GUI tool. However, I just realized this tool has disappeared from my main menu?How do I get this back?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've just installed Maverick (server) in a VirtualBox, and the 'Users and Groups' item is missing from the System/Administration menu when logged in with the first account created.
I've tried
- giving root a password and logging in as that - the item still doesn't show
- adding a new menu item for 'user-admin' (which I believe is the name of the underlying application). Gives "Failed to execute child process 'user-admin'(No such file ordirectory)"
Where should user-admin be - maybe I need to add the path?
I have Apache up and running and have a few virtual sites enabled. All these sites belong to the same user and group and the directory root for each site is in /home/{same-user}/www/{site-name}/htdocs/
I use Samba to connect from Windows to these directories and by default, files and directories are saved as the {same-user} and {same-group}. My question is, would it cause a problem if I changed the user and group in the virtual server directives in /etc/apache2/sites-available/site.conf files, giving apache permission to write to these files and directories. In the past I have changed the user and group to www-data (the default) but this seems inefficient an cumbersome compared to what I intend to do.
I use the server mostly for development, although at times I have a small site or two available to the public. Before I do this I want to be sure I'm not leaving a gaping security hole by changing these things. If this is all wrong, what is the standard way of running virtual hosts from apache and what is the standard document root for virtual sites?
I have Ubuntu 10.04.2 (Linux 2.6.32-33-server on x86_64) with OpenLDAP 2.4.21 and Webmin1.550. I converted my ldap database from another system with the older style schema (OpenLDAP 2.3.3 with slightly older Webmin version 1.480) and no longer use slapd.conf, but the newer slapd.d format.
It all works fine except for one thing. When I add a new user, it lets me type in the additional LDAP fields:
But when I click the Create button, all the fields get jumbled together in the Title/Position box with a diamond question mark delimiting the fields:
Modifying existing users (which have the Additional fields displaying correctly) also has the same result - it moves the fields all into the one Title/Position box with the diamond shapes with question marks inside between each entry. Is it a problem with my schema files? I tried reverting to the older shema files and slapd.conf and it still did the same thing on the new system. I am really at a loss.
Here is also the output of ldapsearch for that user (host and samba ids are sanitized):
Previously added users that show the fields properly have "description:" and then the field listed for each Additional LDAP field. Also shouldn't the "title" be visible in plain human readable text here? - it looks like it encrypted it somehow - similar to a password hash. The older system works fine and the fields are all readable and in their proper locations. But the new system just doesn't work right.
I would like to ask:How do I setup LDAP auth of users/groups on Debian 5.0?Is it using LDAP Migration tools? Can be done differently? Using different tool? Some nice tootorial?Some up to date book for LDAP or I need to dig in openldap.org?I'm learning by book which is a lil bit older so Im bit confused.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHaving set up many windows servers with complex permissions on shared folders, I now have to do the same in Linux (and I'm such a noob to Linux) I understand that each file/folder is assigned a user + group, and that the rights can be set for the user, the group and global (aka everybody else) My challenge is this, inside my shared folder there is a folder that should be RW to some users, READ ONLY to others, and not accessible at all to the rest of the users. (lets call the folder MyFolder ) All 3 groups have more than 1 user, so they have to be groups (right?) How would this model work in Linux ? If there is no other way, I guess I can nest the MyFolder in a folder that has permissions to allow all users that may access MyFolder, and block the rest, then on MyFolder, set owner group the RW users, and set global to READ ONLY.
Ps : The server I'm setting up runs Debian Lenny, files will be accessed from windows workstations using samba.