There’s two parts to this question: when to add a new FILEGROUP, and when to add a new FILE in a filegroup. First let’s talk theory: Mark’s right about the primary reason being performance. The secondary reason is disaster recovery. With SQL Server 2005 and newer, you can do filegroup restores. When disaster strikes, you … Read more
Assuming all your Domain Controllers are Windows Server 2003 or later you can do this with native Active Directory’s dynamic objects functionality without any scripting. Let’s say that a user account, “Bob”, needs to be in the “Accounting” group for 24 hours. Create a “Bob in Accounting 24 Hours” group and specify an entry-TTL for … Read more
Now I suffer from a mental buffer overflow and little confidence of ever being able to tame this beast. First: Relax. I’ve learned that, when you’re new to something with a learning curve such as Puppet, it is pretty easy to become overwhelmed and not be able to get much done. is his login thebob … Read more
Check /etc/ssh/sshd_config for allowed users list. If it is OK, the problem is more complex. Try to connect as “ssh codeuser@your-server -v”
Security groups can be associated with ACLs, whereas distribution groups can’t. Both security groups and distribution groups can be mail enabled. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781446(v=ws.10).aspx
When you added yourself to the group, did you log out of your workstation and log back in? Security Group membership is a component of the access token granted to your user ID at logon and changing group membership requires a log out and log in order to get a new access token that reflects … Read more
find /home -not -group test or find /home ! -group test The exclamation inverts the match. From man find: ! expr True if expr is false. This character will also usually need -not expr Same as ! expr, but not POSIX compliant. If you want the group it does belong to in the output: find … Read more
You can specify the managedBy attribute, and check the box for “Manager can update membership list”. (This grants write permission for the Member attribute.) The person(s) who need to edit the group may be able to do it with the DSQuery widget, for which you can create the following shortcut: rundll32 dsquery,OpenQueryWindow They can search … Read more
Gimme the codes! powers, activate! $Groups = Get-ADGroup -Properties * -Filter * -SearchBase “OU=Groups,DC=corp,DC=ourcompany,DC=Com” Foreach($G In $Groups) { Write-Host $G.Name Write-Host “————-” $G.Members } The point being, just take your time and break it out into steps. I know that it’s fun to try to get everything and the kitchen sink to fit into a … Read more
I’d almost certainly suggest using /usr/local. Globally accessible user scripts can be placed in /usr/local/bin. Small amounts of associated data could also go into bin. Or you may wish to separate out the data into /usr/local/var or /usr/local/share. By doing this you’ll be quite sure that anyone FHS familar will be able to locate them … Read more