Linux Crash Course - Managing Groups

In this episode of Linux Crash Course, we take a look at group management. You'll see commands such as 'groupadd' and 'groupdel' in action as we navigate concepts around adding groups, removing groups, assigning/removing users to groups, and more!
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User danascully was added to sshd_config at 20:21

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[@syamrsk8717]

Thanks Jay, is this group will have permission?

[@gjermundification]

Perhaps for more users OpenLDAP or KeyCloak would be better?

[@phillipproctor9565]

Good info, but how are the groups managed? For example the current situation that brought me here is I can't remote desktop into my raspberry pi unless I remove the user from the "video" and the "render" groups. I am trying to figure out why and where those groups permissions are defined? If I could look under the hood and see what those two groups are actually doing then maybe I could just fix the permissions instead of having to remove the users from those groups.

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I've usually just gone into /etc/groups and modifies th line to add or remove users.

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[@NilsNormann]

I am terrible at remembering command options, so I have always edited the passwd and group files manually.

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can i edit users by editing gropus file?

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How do I add jellyfin to access my video files

[@subtitles1492]

1:56

[@Theborg72]

but if you have a folder that you want several groups to have access to

[@moroccannationalsquad]

Good. I have a question though. In File Permissions we have user:group:others. Can you make the correspondance between these file permissions and primary vs secondary groups. For example primary group, is it really the group part in a file permission. If so, what about secondary groups are they others? Or do both primary and secondary groups belong to group part in file permissions?

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