Questions related to permissions or access rights for operating systems, filesystems, servers, or network devices.
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What permissions are required to change log on as service policy
I have a Windows 8 Pro machine running Hyper-V, and several virtual machines.
I am getting the issue that has been discovered whereby you occasionally get an error message when ...
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Files permission issue
I'm using CENTOS 6.4 with the last version of APACHE.
I was trying to put some files in the "/var/www/html" directory in case i want to download them for my personal use.
I missed with one file's ...
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Windows Server Permission in the Temp Directory [closed]
I have developed an application that run very well in local.
But there is a problem on the server, i think a premission problem.
The application use a DLL (A.dll) in a point of the execution,
this ...
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Can't access Samba share from Windows
I am new to SLES and Samba so I need some help. I set up Samba on SUSE 11 successfully. I was able to create a share with no user restrictions which I managed to access from Windows. But I want to ...
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linux file permissions fstab secure upload of user data
What are the proper permissions/fstab ( possibly permissions is not the answer ) to set on a system you want these attributes on...
the outside world can write and read to the file
no one can ...
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Directory and files have 775/644 permissions but php says it is not writable?
I think this has something to do with ownership of the folders, but I have a php app that I am trying to get setup and I cannot install it because it tells me the permissions are not correct.
I set ...
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rsync as root to /var/www failing with “protocol version mismatch”
I'm trying to set up a one command way to move website code from a dev machine up into my Ubuntu EC2 instance and have it be copied straight into the /var/www/mywebsite folder where nginx expects to ...
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ISPConfig 1 User/Group All Sites
Question below got closed in Stackoverflow, more appropriate here.
I'm running ISPConfig 3, Nginx, PHP5-FPM, and Ubuntu 12.10.
The purpose of the VPS is to serve multiple websites for our clients. I ...
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Linux- Permission denied?
I'm installing Neo4j server as a linux service, but when I install it, I get the following message:
/sbin/insserv: Permission denied
What is this? What should I do? I'm running everything with ...
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Secure way to have a user that can move and change files in a FTP folder structure?
We have an FTP where customers can drop their files. We want to run a script that sweeps the files out of the folders every 15 minutes.
The current permission and folder structure looks like this:
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Speeding up permission changes on git post-update hook
A month ago, based my question Git prime/hub website deployment: documentroot changes save fine but permission denied for subdirectories, I received some great help from dawud for setting up a ...
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Is it possible to list all permissions where I don't have access
I'm looking for a way to recursively go through my entire file share ( fairly large 3TB of files ) and list out all files/folders that I don't have access to. Due to a migration and some errors on ...
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What group should public_html belong to?
I have an appache server running on Linux - CentOS.
In order to be able to edit my php files on Windows, I linked the server to my Dropbox account and created a symlink from the Dropbox folder, which ...
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Network Services Write/Modify Permissions on Inetpub Folder Potiential security issues
I have an asp.net web application that runs as a Content Management system for a website.
It was originally on an IIS6 Server. However the web application was recently moved to an II7 Server. After ...
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Ubuntu Samba share not writable by Apache on another machine
I have a basic shared folder on a ubuntu desktop (VM) that I want everyone to have 100% read/write to it. I can set this up, and use a mac to connect and mount the folder but logging in as the ubuntu ...
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Read-only cronjobs for users
Here's a weird issue. I want to make crontab for a user that is read-only for that particular user and can only be managed via root. Sounds easy? Here's the catch:
$ ls -alh /var/spool/cron/my_user
...
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Run/Execute permissions of script in Tomcat WAR file
I have a script inside the WEB-INF folder that the Java runs. When I deploy the WAR, there are no execute permissions (644 instead of 755).
How do I set the permissions of files inside the WAR?
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Directory needs permissions “reset” after a script copies a file & then modifies its permissions
I'm running CentOS on Virtualbox with Apache, successfully building a website from the ground up.
Things work great and recently found out how to resolve permission issues when sharing files between ...
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What permissions could a printer driver require?
Windows 7 Professional, 32bit
We have a specialized printer for specific production tasks. This printer's driver has a strange problem where some of the options in the Printer Preferences are ...
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'Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0' after uploading file to FTP
Every time I edit a file (in this case a PHP file) and upload it via FTP to my VPS, via the user 'xtreme', the file, when accessed, outputs the following:
Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: ...
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Make all files and folders view only in IIS
I need to essentially "lock-down" a series of files and folders from write access outside of root (system admin). I need them to be read only, so the files can still be viewable online, but not ...
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Unable to create new directories in /srv/www
/srv/www was root:root but I changed it to wwwrun:web (if this is a bad idea don't hesitate to tell me).
user@Web2:/srv> ll
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 5 2010 ftp
drwxrwxr-x 3 ...
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file sharing solution for a small company network [closed]
So we have a team of 9 people that need a file share on a linux server.
Every person has its own laptop. Most have a linux distribution on it and some have a windows OS. For security reasons the ...
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Permission denied when uwsgi app tries to write to a file [duplicate]
I have a Flask application that I want to deploy using Nginx + uWSGI. In my application, I have a log handler that creates a log file at /srv/www/mysite/logs/mysite.log. When I start uWSGI, however, I ...
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Exchange 2010SP1 automapping to security groups [duplicate]
As of SP1, exchange 2010 will automatically open mailboxes in outlook when you give a user fullaccess permissions.
Unfortunately, this does NOT work when you assign the permissions to a security ...
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Weird permissions error with error_log
I am having a very strange issue with error_log. For some strange reason, error_log cannot write to any file under a symbolic link. Here is the structure:
/var/www # apache root, rwx for group ...
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Give apache rw access
For some reason, apache doesn't seem to be able to write to it's own directory! (/var/www). error_log simply fails to output to files. Any help here would be great
I am using ubuntu 12.04 with ...
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cannot modify sshd_config as Root (centos)
After looking through several threads on securing SSH on our server and have run into a little trouble when modifying sshd_config. I went through making the relevant changes and when I exit the file ...
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After Deny Total Control the file has gone
To make a test, I've marked "Deny Total Control" to a file to all groups, and the file disappeared. Now, how I undo this condition? I've already tried to enforce the directory permission to all ...
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Sane permissions for webroot using Apache-MPM-ITK
I've installed apache2-mpm-itk on a new VPS to run multiple sites on the same server with isolation following the directions here: http://www.webtatic.com/packages/httpd-itk/. I want to lock it down ...
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Allow user to read files and folders - Windows Server 2012
Our server appears to have some weird permissions issues. Random files and folders within our web server directory do not have the permissions to allow our webuser to read files.
I am not sure why ...
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ProFTPD permissions in FreeBSD 9
I'm currently administrating a FreeBSD 9 server with multiple sites hosted.
For example:
example1.com
example2.com
example3.com
I need to grant read/write permissions to developers so they will be ...
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linux: grant write access to a folder for a single user
let's say we have dir1 with mode 755 root root and I want user1 to be able to write to the directory, but I don't want to add him to the root group or change the user or group ownership of the ...
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list, edit, add ntfs permissions on a fileserver
I'm working on a migration and need to add NTFS permissions on a fileserver.
Does anyone know a good way to perform these actions?
list permissions of all directories located on the fileserver to ...
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Get permissions in fixed or user-defined server roles in SQL Server 2012
I'd like to know how to get a list of permissions that belong to fixed and/or user-defined server roles in SQL Server 2012.
In previous versions there was an sproc sp_srvrolepermission but this is ...
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PHP managed to create and upload files to root of windows server
I was testing a PHP upload script which created folders and uploaded files. I forgot to make the folder path go from the root, however, the folders where still created.
I checked my Windows servers ...
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Security permissions appearing as long numbers instead of user name
I transferred over folders/files from one server to another using robocopy for Server 2003. However, for each individual that has special permissions to access a folder or file the security ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 hangs when Editing folder permissions
Background:
The server in question is a member of a domain.
This is a brand new server, freshly installed.
I can log into this server using any domain user (which tells me that on some level it is ...
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NAS Device can't change permissions of folders/files
We have a Powerbay NAS device and there are 3 iMacs connected to it, when we initially created folders/files on the NAS device the iMacs had an incorrect Mask setting. So the folders and files were ...
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Apache gives 403: Forbidden despite permissions (seemingly) being correct
I'm running Apache as www-data, I have chown'd /usr/local/apache/htdocs (the document root) to this user + it's group, yet when I try to visit it, Apache gives me a 403.
Is there anything I'm missing ...
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User Rights Assignment/Permissions to Share Folders?
Is there a specific User Right or Permission that can be set via Group Policy to grant a user permissions to create/modify/delete file shares (like creating "//fileserver/user$" shares instead of ...
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Error creating directory: Operation not permitted, can still create files, permissions are correct
I have a directory mounted over FUSE/SSHFS. It's an Ubuntu 10.04 client connected to an Ubuntu 10.04 server. My user has write permissions for the directory in question, and has been able to create ...
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Best way to recover mysql from a “chmod -R 777 /” with databases intact
Question:
What is the best way to recover mysql (or worst case: migrate away) from a "chmod -R 777 /" with databases intact?
System:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
MySQL 5.5.24
64 bit Amazon EC2 cloud server.
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Git prime/hub website deployment: documentroot changes save fine but permission denied for subdirectories
Following the instructions in A web-focused Git workflow I set up a prime and hub repository on my web server and then cloned the hub to my machine at home.
I started testing commits and pushes with ...
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Proper user+group permissions in webfolder
I've got a CentOS VPS with DirectAdmin installed to manage my websites. I found a problem with a WordPress installation which kept asking me for a ftp account to install a plugin or make any change to ...
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Webmin setup access for users to create databases in PMA
I'm using webmin 1.620 on my ubuntu server 12.04 machine to administrate my MySQL database.
I currently have multiple users in my mySQL server (john, bob, mary) and each has their own individual ...
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How can I achieve Access-Based Enumeration with Mac OS X Server (10.8)?
I would like to replicate the concept of Access-Based Enumeration on a Mac server, in that a connected user will only see folders they have access to Read or Write to, instead of displaying folders ...
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permit a user to access a selected folder only (Active directory 2003)
I add the user in the Global Security Group (IT Dept), and create a folder and add the IT Dept in security permission on it.
Under security tab of the folder, I want to remove the Machine\Users group ...
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SFTP user can't edit or create files
Server: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I am using openSSH and have created an SFTP user called bob who belongs to group sftponly. I have chrooted bob to his home directory which is /usr/share/nginx/www/bob/.
bob ...
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Can't give access to a specific folder
In my /etc/group i have some groups where i add the users depending on their role. Something like that:
Group1: userA, userB, userC
Group2: userA, userB
I have a samba running in the server. The ...
