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  2. Group identifier - Wikipedia

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    Many system administrators allocate for each user also a personal primary group that has the same name as the user's login name, and often also has the same numeric GID as the user's UID. Such personal groups have no other members and make collaboration with other users in shared directories easier, by allowing users to habitually work with ...

  3. getent - Wikipedia

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    getent is a Unix command that helps a user get entries in a number of important text files called databases. This includes the passwd and group databases which store user information – hence getent is a common way to look up user details on Unix.

  4. Users' group - Wikipedia

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    Computer user groups may consist of members who primarily use a specific operating system, such as Linux. While many hackers use free and open source software, others use Macintosh, RISC OS, Windows and Amiga OS. There are also other user groups that concentrate on either Mac OS (Macintosh User Group or MUG) or Linux (Linux User Group or LUG).

  5. User identifier - Wikipedia

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    Unix-like operating systems identify a user by a value called a user identifier, often abbreviated to user ID or UID. The UID, along with the group identifier (GID) and other access control criteria, is used to determine which system resources a user can access.

  6. Security Identifier - Wikipedia

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    In the context of the Microsoft Windows NT line of operating systems, a Security Identifier (SID) is a unique, immutable identifier of a user, user group, or other security principal. A security principal has a single SID for life (in a given domain), and all properties of the principal, including its name, are associated with the SID.

  7. List of users' groups - Wikipedia

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    Adamcon (Coleco Adam user group) Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) SHARE; Macintosh User Groups in the UK; DUsers, the first Macintosh users group, based at Drexel University; IIUG International Informix Users Group; COMMON for Power Systems (IBM i, AS/400, iSeries, System i, AIX and Linux) users in North America.

  8. File-system permissions - Wikipedia

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    Some systems diverge from the traditional POSIX model of users and groups by creating a new groupa "user private group" – for each user. Assuming that each user is the only member of its user private group, this scheme allows an umask of 002 to be used without allowing other users to write to newly created files in normal directories ...

  9. whoami - Wikipedia

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    In computing, whoami is a command found on most Unix-like operating systems, Intel iRMX 86, every Microsoft Windows [1] operating system since Windows Server 2003, and on ReactOS. It is a concatenation of the words "Who am I?" and prints the effective username of the current user when invoked.