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In computing, permissions (often called "privileges," "access rights" or just "rights") are rules associated with objects on a computer or network. Permissions determine which objects can access which objects, and to what extent.

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How to give rights to one user for the restart of a service

It's there a way i can give the rights to a specific user, for restart a specific service on windows server 2008 ?
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Grant permission in Active Directory to add users / modify / changed password / add them to group them but not delete them

I would like to add delegate user ability to: add new users to container change password modify group membership modify users properties (such as email / name etc) move users between OU's ...
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Force NTFS permissions inheritance for newly created files

Does anybody know a way to force that all files that get created inside some folder inherit the NTFS permissions of that folder. The problem is the following: I have a third party software that is ...
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How do I set up a shared directory on Linux?

I have a linux server I want to use to share files between users in my company. Users will access the machine with sftp or secure shell. Here is what I have: cd /home ls -l drwxrwsr-x 5 userA ...
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Restore default ownership in CentOS after terrible chown [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I recover a RHEL 4.3 server from bad permissions set over the entire filesystem? Is there any way to restore the default ownership of a CentOS filesystem after an ...
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Using SELinux to force Linux to allow programs to bind to port numbers lower than 1024

Is there a way in SELinux to force linux to allow a program to be able to bind to a port number lower than 1024.
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Has March 2015 Patch Tuesday broken 2003 shares?

We have several Windows Server 2003 boxes, and over night, they had their automatic updates installed. This morning, users cannot access shares they were previously able to, and are prompted for ...
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Samba Ignoring POSIX ACLs

I have an Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS server running Samba, and joined to our Active Directory domain using PBIS (formerly likewise-open.) Samba is configured to do authentication using AD users/groups, and ...
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Zabbix Agent unable to read /var/log/messages

So I am trying to monitor the logs of a VM running Centos 7. Specifically the one giving problems is /var/log/messages. I have changed both the group ownership of the file ( made the pertaining change ...
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MySQL LOAD DATA INFILE user privilege settings

I understand that users must have FILE privilege on *.* in order to use the LOAD DATA INFILE command without using LOCAL—which sends the file data through the client—but when GRANTing FILE ...
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SSH configuration, publickeys, Permission denied (publickey,password). error

My task: login from Mac OS Snow Leopard client to Ubuntu 10.10 server without password. Commands: client$ mkdir ~/.ssh client$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh client$ ssh-keygen -q -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -t rsa Enter ...
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How to set up default group permission in linux folder

I have website folder called /home/john/public_html Now i want that what ever files are copied to that public_html or new files created inside that folder then those files should have default read /...
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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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How should I structure my users/groups/permissions for a web server?

How should I setup permissions in the most secure way on my dedicated server which I'm running FTP + Nginx on? I want FTP to be able to read/write files and I want Nginx to be able to read/write the ...
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What permissions are needed to run a system() command within a php script that writes to a folder?

I've got a php script which has the line: system("ffmpeg -i ......"); The output folder is set to be: drwxrwxr-x 5 apache apache 4096 Oct 19 07:40 in_upload If I run the exact text "ffmpeg -i .....
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Perhaps not understanding the OS X permissions model

Trying to set up a complex config for the bundled Httpd on MacOSX 10.6. In the log for the httpd: [Wed Mar 23 09:18:07 2011] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied: mod_rewrite: can't access ...
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mysql permissions issue - associated with my.cnf

I want to change the max_allowed_packet value, but when setting permissions for my.cnf to 777, I get (as expected): Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored If I set it to anything ...
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Centos 7 - sshd sftp group permissions messed up after update

Centos recently updated to 7.3 and there's been problems with sshd sftp group permissions. I have one user that is chrooted to it's home directory, and that user is in group sftponly. Then i have the /...
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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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No longer have to enter a password to SSH into another server?

For some reason, I have a server that if ssh into another server...you don't need to enter the password. How is this done? Can someone give me step by step instructions please?
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403 Forbidden Access

Yesterday my supervisor mounted one of his directories onto my server. The problem is, I can't access them and I have no way of contacting him right now. When I type in the URL I get this error: ...
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linux + when change passwd we get permission denied

We have installed Redhat Linux 6.5 from scratch the VIA kick start installation and booted into single user mode because I don't have the root password. But when I perform the following: passwd root ...
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How do I share a Git repository with multiple users on a machine?

I have a Git repository on a staging server which multiple developers need to be able to pull to. git-init seems to have a flag very close to what I'm looking for: --shared, except I'd like multiple ...
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GRANT SELECT to all tables in postgresql

Is there a one-liner that grants the SELECT permissions to a new user postgresql? Something that would implement the following pseudo-code: GRANT SELECT ON TABLE * TO my_new_user;
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Why does sudo command take long to execute?

I've been picking up Linux (Fedora 10, then 11) over the past few months (and enjoying it immensely-- it's like discovering computers all over again, so many things to learn). I've added my user to ...
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How to change owner of mount point

We have moved mysql data directory to another disk, so now /var/lib/mysql is just a mount point to another partition. We set the owner of the /var/lib/mysql directory to mysql.mysql. But everytime we ...
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What is the first digit for in 4-digit octal Unix file permission notation?

3-digit: 644 ugo (user group other) 4-digit: 0644 ?ugo (??? user group other) What is the first octal digit for in 4-digit octal Unix file permission notation?
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chown on a mounted NFS partition gives "Operation not permitted"

I have a remote partition that i have mounted locally using NFS. 'mount' gives 192.168.3.1:/mnt/storage-pools/ on /pools type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.3.1) On the server i have in exports: /mnt/...
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What can user do with VIEW SERVER STATE permissions?

In SQL Server 2008 there is a permissions VIEW SERVER STATE. What rights this permission give to user? What SQL Server mean by SERVER STATE?
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Need to fix file permissions in a user's home directory

Does anyone have a tool or script that will recursively correct the file permissions on a directory? On an Ubuntu Linux machine, a bunch of files were copied to a USB disk with full 777 permissions (...
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Bypass ssh key file permission check

I have an encrypted FAT volume (for compatibility) containing a private key file and other sensitive data. I want to connect to my server through SSH using my private key, but of course, as FAT doesn'...
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Minimum permissions for a user to perform a mysqldump?

I want to start scheduling remote mysqldump crons, and I'd prefer to use a special account for that purposes. I want to grant that user the minimum permissions for getting a full dump, but I'm not ...
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How to deny the web access to some files?

I need to do an operation a bit strange. First, i run on Debian, apache2 (which 'runs' as user www-data) So, I have simple text file with .txt ot .ini, or whatever extension, doesnt matter. These ...
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fstab and cifs mounting, possible to store authentication information outside of fstab?

I am currently using cifs to mount some network shares (that require authentication) in /etc/fstab. It works excellently, but I would like to move the authentication details (username/pass) outside ...
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"'' is not a valid login or you do not have permission" on sql server installation

I have tried installing SQL Server 2008 multiple times on my machine, and I always receive this error about 3/4 of the way through: '' is not a valid login or you do not have permission. I use SYSTEM ...
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Run nginx as a non-root user

I followed this process to installing nginx on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Server http://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/installation/ubuntu-10.04-lucid I got lost after the point of creating an init ...
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How to configure PHP CLI on linux ubuntu to run as www-data?

I have a symfony2 application on my ubuntu. Symfony has a plenty of useful console commands (like php app/console cache:clear or php app/console assets:install web). The problem is If I run them as ...
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Refresh supplementary group memberships without logging in again?

From my understanding, a Linux session caches its group memberships at login. Then if a new group membership is added (e.g. with adduser someuser somegroup), the user must log out and log in again to ...
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Quickly changing Windows permissions for a huge directory tree?

I have a huge directory on an NTFS file-system (i.e. a top-level directory containing tens or hundreds of millions of descendant nodes with the file nodes probably on average about three levels deep) ...
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Windows File Permissions and Attributes

I'm somewhat confused about the whole Windows file security scheme. I come from a unix background, so I don't fully understand the relationship between file permissions/security settings and the ...
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What User Should NGinx and PHP be running as?

Permissions are something that have confused for me a while with Linux. So at the minute both my NGinx and PHP-FPM instances are running with the user and group : www-data Is this standard? I run ...
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How to add NETWORK SERVICE to Users permission group?

I'm adapting an application from a different server, their installation guide tells me to Add Server Name\Network Service identity to Users permission group. So how can I? I've tried: Via ...
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Can't connect to default admin share on Windows 2008

I have a Windows 2008 Server that I'm trying to connect to the default administrative share \\servername\c$ I can connect to it using the default Administrator account. But if I try to connect using ...
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User in domain admin group cannot access directory the group has permission to access

I've run into a rather interesting issue when playing with one of my domain labs. There's a directory on a 2008 R2 fileserver that's being used for folder redirection for all users in the "Staff" OU. ...
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'Permission denied' to a file I own?

My user, bob, can't access files that he (theoretically owns). I'm running Fedora Core 8. It probably easier to shown than tell: > ls -al . total 32 drwxrwxr-x 7 bob bob 4096 May 18 14:33 . ...
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How do I assign an SELinux label to a symlink with semanage so it persists after a relabel?

My apache DocumentRoot /var/www is a symbolic link to another path. The target has the appropriate file context label (httpd_sys_content_t) so that apache can read it with SELinux enabled. However, ...
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Linux ssh: allow public-key authentication without giving user read rights to private key

Users logged in on my Linux server should be able to ssh to a specific remote machine with a default account. The authentication on the remote machine uses public key, so on the server the ...
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"debug1: read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: No such device or address" when trying to connect through SSH

I am trying to connect to my server using ssh [email protected] -vv I get debug1: read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: No such device or address error or just Permission denied, please try again. ...
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Permission denied but group permissions look good on redhat

I have a user ftpadmin: -bash-3.2$ id ftpadmin uid=10001(ftpadmin) gid=2525(fsg) groups=2525(fsg),10005(git) The important group to note is "git" Then I have my git repository: ls -al drwxrwxr-x ...
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crontab listing or editing results in fopen: permission denied

Recently, a job configured to run from a user's crontab stopped executing. When attempting to list or edit the crontab for the user, the result is: user@host:~$ crontab -l crontabs/user/: fopen: ...
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