After installing VirtualBox, add yourself to the Vboxusers group in System -> Administration -> Users and Groups.Then re-boot your computer!Otherwise you will spend hours (like me) wondering why your USB devices are not available in your guest VM.I just did a complete install on a new, larger hard drive and had forgotten this simple fact. Doh!
View 2 RepliesI recently was able to network 2 computers at home and I wanted to make my password more secure. When I try to edit my password via System>Administration>Users and Groups, it doesn't workI am able to edit my user settings. When I change my password I enter my old one and it accepts my new one. Problem is when I try to install programs, login and do other things it only accepts my old password. How can I change my password?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've spent the entire day trying to install virtualbox. My dkms is newest version, my gcc is newest version, my headers seem to be in order, and it still won't install. BUT that's not my problem. As I was trying repeatedly to install, I noticed it said "group vboxusers already exists". So brilliant me, thinking that was my problem, went and deleted it, and then headed to synaptics to uninstall virtualbox (again!) so that I could try to install it (again!), only to find myself locked out.
The exact message I get is
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Unable to get exclusive lock
This usually means that another package management application (like apt-get or aptitude) is already running. Please close that application first.I've worked really hard on this install, and don't want to start over with a fresh one unless it's absolutely necessary.
script which can add a secondary group to all existing users except system users in linux.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI 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 Relatedhave recently encountered an issue in fedora 14 whereby upon entering the root password the users and groups and authentication utilities do not run. (system/administration/users and groups) They used to run fine.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi want secondary users can able to change the files permissions of primary group?user MAC is having www as a primary and httpd as secondary group. But he want to change the file permissions (chmod) httpd group files. Is it possible or not? I think its not possible. If it`s possible then let me know how?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a number of users, categorised into various groups. I would like one of those groups ("developers") to be in the wheel group as well. I don't want to just copy the people from the developers group into wheel, because then when that group changes I'll have to change it in two places. Is there a way to specify that anyone in developers is in wheel, and have that be dynamic?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs there a Linux system call that can be used to get the group name from the GID returned by stat()? I realize that I could parse /etc/groups (if my user had sufficient permissions).
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've installed OpenLDAP and libnss-ldap, as instructed in this tutorial. Then I try to login but I got the error
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groups: cannot find name for group ID 10000
Here's the user and group ldif entry that I use to login
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dn: uid=iwan,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: shadowAccount
[code]....
I would like to create a bash script that creates a single group from all users in other groups.
I've been at it most of the day, and I think I'm making it too complicated. I have about 100 lines of code, and it's still now working the way I would like. I'm starting to trip over my own feet with the amount of if statements and variables.
how to map all domain users form group Domain Users to local group users (and maybe some more)? Im using Ubuntu 10.04 x32. Its connected to my domain using Samba and Winbind, I can login using my domain credentials, automatically map user folder form DFS server, but I think that domain users have too much priviledges in the system and want to restrict them as much as possible
View 2 Replies View Relatedthis is really a brainstorming thread seeking advise on how to setup some samba shares within a small office network. For the quick judgers:
-no I'm not an IT expect and I'm not even the IT at the office, I just fill in this gap too.
-I have looked into several samba 'by example' tutorials - none seems to fit my needs or answer some of my Qs.
So I seek advise from your experience: What do I know:
-the functionality of the setgid to have subfolders inherit the group owner of the parent folder
-the fact that I don't want samba in 'share' level in order to register the owners of files
-the functionality of acls that enables inheritance of rwx permissions to subfoldrs of a parent folder.
- the groupmod -o option but that doesn't help apparently.
So this is a 25ppl civil engineer consulting office. The physical groups of ppl working here are: engineers, drafters (those who generate the drawings , i'm not sure if thats the correct term), and secretaries. The job usually is done in the following way, once a project commences a project folder gets generated and everything is done in there. incoming mail arrives there (secretaries put it there), engineers do they calculations on speadsheets, write reports and do draft drawings and, finally, drafters take the draft drawings and finalize them. So pretty much everyone of these 3 groups needs write access to the main project folder.
How do I accomplish that? as which group should I create the project folders? It came to mind the notion of group of groups. Now that the actual owner of the file is not so important anymore (several engineers will need to have write access to the folder) and group becomes important, it would be nice to have the ability to add... groups (instead of users) to groups! so that the permissions to a group are inherited by its children groups... Does such functionality exist of can it be implemented somehow?
How do I go about giving access to everyone and at the same time, NOT giving up on the 'user' secutiry level of samba (and NOT just giving rwx permission to 'others'? Is it possible? or Should I instead forget about individuals and match the 'physical groups' to 'linux users' and 'groups of groups' to 'linux groups'? ( This means I should give on ownership of files by individuals )? Since its a small office some work is mixed - engineers might pickup incoming email, a secretary might do abit of drafting work etcetc.
When I have different people log into our ftp and browse to the same folder, some people see the files inside, some don't. all the user accounts are in the same group, which has permission to this folder. but the one user who can see the files is the owner. how can i fix it so everyone in that group who's the owner of the folder can see the files?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create a group called Domain Users, that will include several other groups that are populated with users inside of the LDAP database. In the LDAPdatabase, for a group entry, there are memberUid entries that can be filled. When I try to use another "Group" name, it just lists that name and not the people in that group. So if group "A" has Jim, John, Sue, and I include group "A" in the memberUid of the Domain Users group, I want that to reference the people in that group, not the group name. Testing access right, having the group name listed in "Domain Users" group, does not grant user access under the group rights on a directory. Should be simple, but I don't know the syntax to use for this reference.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am setting up a samba server to operate in a windows AD domain. I want to set permissions for multiple groups to have different levels of access to one group of files, and it looks to me like unix permissions will not do that? I always hear about how robust linux is, and it seems to me that their file permissions model is WEAK compared to microsoft's?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn other Linux distros I've used, new users are assigned to their own group (i.e. user 'joe', group 'joe') by default. To my surprise, when I create new users with my openSUSE 11.4, they are all assigned to the 'users' shared group by default.To test this, I created a new user called 'friends'. From my terminal, I can see how the new user files look like:
joe@linux:~> ls -l /home/friends/
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 friends users 4096 Sep 3 11:37 bin
[code]...
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 Relatedhow one professionaly would solve the security and administration for the multiple webadmins, but firstly I give some general information.I spent 2 days searching and there are alot of good guides but I dont see my specific questions answered, not so I can understand them atleast.I have Ubuntu 10.10 64bit server edition installed.I am educating myself and am new to linux but use vmware and have installed Gentoo multiple times and a copy of Ubuntu server. This server is going to be setup on the 64-bit 10.10 Ubuntu virtual machine.
View 3 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.
If 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 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 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?