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  2. Linux user group - Wikipedia

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    A Linux User Group or Linux Users' Group (LUG) or GNU/Linux User Group (GLUG) is a private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and/or education for Linux users, particularly for inexperienced users. The term commonly refers to local groups that meet in person but is also used to refer to online support ...

  3. File-system permissions - Wikipedia

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    Some systems diverge from the traditional POSIX model of users and groups by creating a new group – a "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 ...

  4. Unix security - Wikipedia

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    iptables is the current user interface for interacting with Linux kernel netfilter functionality. It replaced ipchains . Other Unix like operating systems may provide their own native functionality and other open source firewall products exist.

  5. setuid - Wikipedia

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    The Unix and Linux access rights flags setuid and setgid (short for set user identity and set group identity) [1] allow users to run an executable with the file system permissions of the executable's owner or group respectively and to change behaviour in directories. They are often used to allow users on a computer system to run programs with ...

  6. Category:Linux user groups - Wikipedia

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    A Linux User Group (LUG) is a meeting of people who like Linux and use it. Each country will usually have a national LUG which may administer the groups, offer free services etc. and it is also possible for groups to get sponsorships from various commercial organisations, SuSE is one example.

  7. Role-based access control - Wikipedia

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    Within an organization, roles are created for various job functions. The permissions to perform certain operations are assigned to specific roles. Since users are not assigned permissions directly, but only acquire them through their role (or roles), management of individual user rights becomes a matter of simply assigning appropriate roles to the user's account; this simplifies common ...

  8. Group identifier - Wikipedia

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    In Unix-like systems, multiple users can be put into groups. POSIX and conventional Unix file system permissions are organized into three classes, user, group, and others.The use of groups allows additional abilities to be delegated in an organized fashion, such as access to disks, printers, and other peripherals.

  9. Directory service - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a directory service or name service maps the names of network resources to their respective network addresses.It is a shared information infrastructure for locating, managing, administering and organizing everyday items and network resources, which can include volumes, folders, files, printers, users, groups, devices, telephone numbers and other objects.