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IIS7 - What permission to grant to which account, and where?
I need my ASP page (intranet) to read files from another local Windows server.
I know that IIS7 has different system user accounts which it uses depending on the security context etc. but to be honest ...
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Windows Copy and permissions
I have copied a which has Everyone permission. The duplicated file doesn't have these permissions other than the default permission. I'd like to know more about how Windows Copy defines the ACLs. It ...
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CentOS web files permissions for Apache and FTP
I have a CentOS VPS. The problem is my html files in /var/www/html seem to need to be owned by the apache user in order for some web applications to work (ie file uploads).
If they are owned by the ...
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Permission denied error - linux user belongs to the owned group
I have added the user "test" in myuser group usermod -a -G test myuser. But if I try to execute or try to cd to datadir as "test" user gives the Permission denied error. datadir is having the ...
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Dreamweaver not recognizing symbolic link as directory
I have this directory
drwxrwxr-x 6 awdfiles pasgroup 4096 Jan 31 17:20 awdfiles
Which I want to access via another FTP connection. The user is part of the pasgroup
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Linux acls uses wrong gid for domain groups, but numerical gids ok
Please see edit below, as it turns out that the problem is with uid/gid to sid mapping and shows a workaround that will help understand the problem more quickly.
We have a Ubuntu 11.04 server ...
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What are the best linux permissions to use for my website?
I have a Linux web server running Apache2 that hosts several websites. Each website has its own folder in /var/www/.
/var/www/contoso.com/
/var/www/contoso.net/
/var/www/fabrikam.com/
The base ...
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User http does not have write permissions directory?
I have a bit of an odd set up, I think. I have groups for each domain my server hosts, and I add the user http to each domain group along with the users that should have access to the groups' domains. ...
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cannot connect to ftp server from lan?
i am trying to make my ftp server accessible (for download only) by other computers on my LAN using anonymous user and without password, when i connect to it from the same pc using filezilla it works ...
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getting a 403 error
Constantly getting a 403 error.
You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.
log file :
(13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied
(13)Permission denied: access to ...
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Unix: giving a group permissions to a file
On a Ubuntu server, I have a database file under a user's home directory, specifically /home/pistacchio/lessico/mydatabase.db. Apache works under the group www-data. What is the best way to grant ...
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Nginx, uWSGI, Python, users, groups and permissions. Questions about security
Ok, yesterday I finally get nginx and uWSGI servers running on my PC.
Nginx and uWSGI configuration files, new users, groups and their privileges, and chrootdir for SSH I configured
based on knowledge ...
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Allow Permissions for Multiple FTP Users to Edit Public HTML Folder - Linux
On a dedicated server hosting one website, running Linux with no control panel, I'm trying to grant permission for multiple users to edit the public HTML folder (/var/www/html/).
I want to make sure ...
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Setup Acount Permissions with MSMQ and Windows Service
I'm a developer needing some guidance on setting up proper accounts/permissions for the following so bear with me please.
I am creating a private MS Queue and installing a windows service on a Win ...
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Windows 2008 Eventlogs best practice and server\Users permission
I have a couple questions about Windows Event Logs and permissions for server 2008 best practice and what Users is in 2008.
I am trying to write EVTLogs off to another drive instead of the default ...
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Why can't I delete a folder that I have ownership (+ children) AND full control permissions (+ children) on?
I've got some leftover Windows update temporary folders (they have GUID-ish names) on the root of the system drive. I'm trying to clean these up, but am getting the following behavior upon deletion ...
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Apache complaining about directory being writeable by group
I'm getting this error in the logs:
SoftException in Application.cpp:601: Directory "[...]" is writeable by group
which is true, but another directory in the same virtualhost and with same ...
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“Map network drive” Apache WebDAV folder without directory listing
I'm trying to create a webdav share on Apache which, when mounted in Windows using 'Map Network Drive', allows users to get and put specific named files, but not list any other files or directories.
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vsftp “Access is denied” when writing as an authenticated user
I have set up vsftpd for private FTP. Only authenticated users in the ftp group can login.
Also, every user is chrooted to its home directory (/home/username)
chroot_local_user=YES
I can log in, ...
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PHP create files with wrong permission
I have a php files, name image_creat.php
$res = mysql_query("select * from images where key!='en' Order By id DESC LIMIT 0,10");
while ($rows = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$imageurl = ...
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Restrict access to IIS site to an AD Group
Is it possible in IIS to set up a site in IIS and only let users of a certain AD Group get access to it?
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chmod while keeping current owner/group permissions
I use for example to change everyone's permissions:
chmod 777 file
Now, what if I want to preserve the current permissions?
I know there's something like
chmod xx7 file
in case I'd only want to ...
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unix read permission
I have a quick question about how the read permission works. Does read permission mean I can open the file?
The situation is this: FTP server where I have an account that is not Root. There, files ...
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Windows 7 permissions: PHP can create files but cannot delete them
I'm having the oddest problem ever with Windows 7: My scripts positively CAN create files in a given directory, but then are unable to delete those same files.
My server is currently a local XAMPP, ...
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linux crond not working
I have a cronjob which for creat thumbnails. the folder /var/www/html/work/ has permission 744(I think 744 is more safe than 777)
Crontabs
* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/work/images.php
php ...
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Moving a Drupal between linux servers, best practice to avoid file-ownership problems
I want to port over a Drupal commons 6x24 from a local LAMP-stack to a production webserver. Both systems run OpenSuse Linux. How do I do this, what are the most important steps. How should I handle ...
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Can a file that is executable be read?
If a file has permissions -rwx-wx-wx can it be read by other and group users, or can it only executed and written? Is there some way to read an executable file by executing it?
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Can I restore the defult SQL Server Public Role? [migrated]
I setup a new user login and attached it to a specific database on my server. I then opened up management studio on my local pc, connected to the database using the server IP and selecting the ...
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NFS Permissions trouble
I have an NFS4 share and I need to use it for 2 remote machines However, folders that were created on machine 1 are not writeable for machine 2, giving the error "Permission denided".
How should I ...
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Setting Local Policy not working?
What could I be doing wrong here?
Added Everyone to local security settings (testing purposes only)
Forced the policy to update with gpupdate /force
ran whoami /priv
The permission I added is ...
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Permission changes of home directory of first user created are not being applied to other users
When I first installed ubuntu server 10.04 I created my first user 'bonzo'. When I'm logged in as bonzo the permissions on directory /home/bonzo are 755. However when I'm logged in as any other ...
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Make a file accesible by PHP but not from the outside
My host gives me two folders for my use, a /home/public/ which is where the pages go, and /home/private/, which is for my personal use. I would like for PHP to create a file that's readable by me from ...
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PPTPD Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: Permission denied
I cannot connect to my pptpd server, because it fails to send LCP: Config-Requests to my client. I found the problem, it was located in syslog
Jan 14 03:45:38 mightyowl3 pppd[22256]: Couldn't open ...
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Tool for re-permissioning Citrix published apps?
We have Citrix XenApp 4.0/4.5/5.0 farms with hundreds of published applications which we will need to edit, preferably through a scriptable command-line tool. I've searched the Citrix Administrator's ...
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Running node.js changes folder permissions?
Whenever I start my server with
sudo node server.js
the process starts and the permission on the folder containing server.js magically switch to 700.
I'm running ubuntu 10.10 and node 0.6.7. My ...
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Running php as fastcgi vs Apache mod with dir permissions of 777
Hi I'm a web developer by trade and not a server engineer please bear with me!
I have just got a new Ubuntu LAMP VPS server, which I am trying to configure.
I understand that running php as ...
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Can I override my umask using ACLs to make all files created in a given directory world readable?
Assume that my umask is 0077.
I have a directory, foo, that I want to have special permissions applied to it. All files I create in foo should be world readable, and all directories should be world ...
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How can i keep permissions for _www apache
I'm on Mac OS X lion, and I use apache for php and rails development. What groups or permissions should I set so that apache, through the _www user/group has full read/write access to my website ...
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how set owner of file cms.war for ftpuser and owner of cms folder for tomcat user?
I'm using Tomcat Server. I woiuld like the owner of the file cms.war to be the ftp user the tomcat user to be the owner of the cms/ folder.
When I uploaded cms.war it was automatically deployed in ...
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How do I change the user that the Apache web server runs under in CentOS?
I have one directory called apps/cache. When a script writes some files to that directory those files are owned by the nobody user. Of course, then those files and folders are not editable by any ...
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Mount an NFS share as non-root in fstab
A tomcat server that is run as root (i.e. web app using port 80) needs access to an NFS share to store uploaded files, which the root account does not have access to. Unsurprisingly, when the web ...
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Directory with read and write for a user is permission denied, but fine with execute permissions
I have some weirdness with my users/permissions. I currently have a user named world that has the groups world www-data admin. I have a directory at /var/abc which has the permissions 0644 or ...
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Managing folder access by subfolder permissions to simplify management on windows share
I have a Windows shared folder that contains a two level hierarchy. The permissions are managed by security groups. The interesting permissions are set in the second level. A first level folder should ...
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Windows folder mounted in Unix, unable to touch anything 'permission denied'
I've got a windows system running centos inside a virtual box vm.
I have a directory I've shared in windows, and mounted from centos, in fstab, like so:
//<ip address>/head_build ...
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How long does it take to modify the permissions of /home/?
So I am using Transmit.app for my SFTP client and I changed permissions in /home/ and pressed the "Apply to Enclosed..." option as well. So essentially it is applying the desired permission to every ...
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Tomcat access control exceptions (binding to RMI) with no Security Manager running (Ubuntu)
I'm encountering some strange access control exceptions from a Tomcat servlet (when it tries to bind to an RMI server). I'm running without a Security Manager, and this whole application worked fine ...
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Samba SGID directories and delegation of privileges
What I basically want to do, is to be able to set SGID (setgid) on certain directories from Windows on Samba shares.
Reminder: Files and directories created within directory with SGID set inherit the ...
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IIS 7.5 folder and web site permissions
Situation:
test website created in IIS server manager
basic settings/connect as: Application user
authentication/anonymous authentication/edit: application pool identity
physical path has "IIS ...
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Best Practices - Windows 7 Remote Road Warrior Laptop User Permissions
I'm interested in what are considered best practices when setting up laptops for remote users who are never in the office. With UAC in Windows 7, a standard user is significantly limited in what they ...
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Running apache with admin permissions dangerous?
I am trying to get my apache server (OS X Lion, not server edition) to run, using a folder inside Dropbox as DocumentRoot. This works fine, as long as I run apache as admin, meaning: with admin ...
