Questions tagged [uid]
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How to restrict UID range in AD Identity Management for UNIX
I want to enable AD (win 2008 R2) users on a linux box. The problem is that there are also local users (for historical reasons). Now I want to make sure that there is no clash in UIDs (or at least minimise the chance). The historic local accounts…
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Isaac
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Change effective id
I'd like to know how to change my effective uid
mike628@NASBD122F:/etc$ id -G
1000 0 121
I belong to these groups, but I cant do anything as root, when things are owned by root:root
and can someone explain this clearly?
Thanks
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mike628
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Windows DHCP-Client shall not send UID
is there a way to tell the Windows DHCP-Client not to send along this useless UID parameter with its DHCP requests?
Thing is: We have dual boot machines (Windows and Linux). When Windows gets started first it gets the lease based on a UID that it…
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luxifer
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Access backup files with different UID
Say I have a user with UID 500 on a linux machine for administration purposes. This machine is a backup repository for other *nix machines.
I need the user 500 to access the files in the backups, but the files are owned by other UIDs that don't…
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Ultraspider
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mod_wsgi with dynamically allocated UIDs
I have a system where users upload wsgi applications and we serve them using apache/mod_wsgi. For scaling reasons, we're simply using the WSGIDaemonProcess directive and setting them to dynamically allocated UID/GIDs. The problem is, we don't have…
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dave paola
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bulk swap uidNumber/gidNumber?
We currently have LDAP servers in Dev env. and staging/prod env. Both are not coupled and accounts are created manually. So the uids are same but the uidNumber and gidNumber are different across these two envs.
I am trying to upgrade to 389 DS and…
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Prashanth Sundaram
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A few users and subuid/subgid mapping
I cannot get my head around the userns-idmap mapping ie with sub{uid,gid} mapping stuff.
Here's what I have:
# lxc launch images:ubuntu/22.04 c1
# lxc config device add c1 home disk source=/home/user3/ path=/home/user3
# lxc config device add c1…
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dogman
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Decode UID from dhcpd.leases
I have am testing a device on my network which has this lease assigned:
lease 192.168.110.85 {
starts 3 2022/07/20 16:12:37;
ends 3 2022/07/20 16:22:37;
cltt 3 2022/07/20 16:12:37;
binding state active;
next binding state free;
rewind…
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Johannes Linkels
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What is missing from sssd.conf so that linux UID isn't being copied into AD user's uid attribute?
SSSD 1.16.5, centos 7
For domain joined Linux systems, I have to manually set their uidNumber or uid AD attribute to their Linux UID so that users can write on world-writable NFS shares.
uid/uidNumber empty, domain users cant write.
Something is…
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bluesquare
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Exchange mailbox UID confusion after deletion and re-creation with same alias
I created an exchange mailbox early 2019 and deleted it in december 2019 I think.
Then I re-created AD and exchange account with same name and same email address in september 2020.
Since, we have difficulties to send email to this person because it…
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YeeDooz
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Core processes are started to run under another user, not root
I have added a new user as abc, with UID 0 and GUID 0 (as same as root. I know, it was a bad idea)
Now, when I connect to ssh via root, it's shown as abc@localhost, not root@localhost. Also, all core processes are started to run under abc, not root.…
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heyhey
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Customize Welcome Message when linux user's login by ssh
I want to print message when user login to linux using ssh like this message (welcome Mr john_097968) where john is username and 097968 is UID Number . so how can I do that using links terminal
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Muhammad Khaled
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Make user have same UID as PHP?
I'm running a web app in a FreeBSD jail.
Nginx and PHP are configured as user:group www:www.
I have a chrooted SFTP user who also is in the group www. (SFTPuser:www)
My goal is that the files that I upload as this user appear as belonging to my php…
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Simple non-interactive tool for switching user
I need a tool that would be run by root, drop root by switching to another user, and then execute another program specified by the command line argument(s). Use case: run something from a (custom) init scripts under a non-privileged user.
I want to…
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pvgoran
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