Questions related to permissions or access rights for operating systems, filesystems, servers, or network devices.
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Not breaking permissions when running Rails-related commands on the server
As part of my deployment process I would run a chown -R www-data:www-data in all of /var/www/projectx. That is taking way too long, so instead of periodically fixing permissions, I want to avoid ...
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Permissions Issue with Files Generated by PerfMon
We are trying to implement some data logging to CSV files using a Data Collector Set in PerfMon (on a windows Server 2008R2 system).
The issue we are running into is that we (seemingly) can't control ...
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Exchange 2007 - Public Folder Permissions
So Public Folders - I've always come into an Exchange infrastructure whereby permissions are already configured and I've merely needed to add the odd user here and there on a public folder via ...
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Server 2008 R2 - Apply New permissions to all printers on server
We setup a new 64bit Print Server (Server 2008 R2) and on our previous print server we had the helpdesk as a member of the power users group, and gave them "Manager Printers" so they could change ...
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Need to allow Paste, Move and Rename permissions without delete permission [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to grant rename permissions, but not delete, in NTFS?
I’m administering a Windows domain that started with a Windows 2003 standard server (32bit) that had ...
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Nginx + Wordpress permisions settings
I'm experimenting some troubles with a wordpress installation backed on nginx. The architecture is held in amazon and is the following:
EC2 Nginx 1.2.4 + php-fpm Server
EC2 NFS Server
RDS mysql
The ...
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MYSQL Permission: Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost
Got a problem with a mysql server installation on Debian. (Not my server so I have no idea what caused this...)
Installing new applications that add a database fail with error:
ERROR 1045 (28000): ...
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FTP User cannot modify files but has correct permissions
I have created a new user (foo) and when he logs in via ftp he cannot edit the files in the directory to which he has access.
In the directory he can log into ls -l gives me:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root ...
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windows server 2012 remote desktop - Send messages between standard users
Does anyone know the policy, or registry change, etc. for allowing messages (on the same server) between standard users...
an elevated cmd prompt or task manager works of course... but need it to ...
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Cron job with shell script to repair SFTP directory and file ownership
Our SFTP share is set in:
/home/COMMUNITY
Each workgroup has its own directory, for example:
/home/COMMUNITY/Halloween
This directory has multiple directories under it. There is one group that ...
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How to prevent file owner from changing/deleting their own file? Linux CentOS
This is NOT your standard "how do permissions work" question!
I'm thinking the answer will probably involve ACL, but I don't know how exactly.
I've messed around with standard permissions, guid, ...
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How to set FTP upload umask so uploads cannot be deleted? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to prevent file owner from changing/deleting their own file? Linux CentOS
The user uploads the file, but cannot delete it by FTP or SSH once uploaded.
Folder ...
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NTFS Permission Structure to allow Traversal but no Modification except in Leaf Nodes?
Assume there's this folder structure:
D:\ --+-- Acctg --+-- Payable
| +-- Receivable
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+-- Fin --+-- Inv
| +-- Tax
| +-- Treas
|
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In supervisord umask setting results in same permissions for files and folders
I'm using supervisord to handle some gevent based wsgi processes that simply run a django app.
When I upload files I want them to have rw permissions for user and group (www-data) and of course I ...
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Group Permissions on Ubuntu /var/www [closed]
I have two users that are in www-data group that need to access the same files via FTP. Whenever I try to change permissions on a file inside Filezilla it gives a permission denied.
I have tried the ...
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Samba Server Make Multiple User Permissions Profiles
I have a Samba file server running, and I was wondering how I could make multiple user accounts that have different permissions. For example, at the moment I have a user, smbusr, but when I ssh to the ...
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Zimbra 8.0: Warning create file maildrop/XXXXX.XXXXX permissions denied
I have Zimbra 8.0 running over Ubuntu work fine but i have a warning
postfix/postdrop[XXXX]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/XXXXX.XXXXX permissions denied
the problem is i have ...
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What permission(s) does an application pool identity required to manage other application pools?
I have a web site (used to manage various parts of our software) that needs the permissions required to start/stop other application pools.
I've created a user and set the app pool identity to ...
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Netbeans automatically changes the file owner when updating files
We use Netbeans IDE 7.2 to edit our PHP files.
In the Run Configuration it is configured as Remote Web Site to automatically save the changes on our web server (Centos OS 6.3).
The problem is that ...
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NTFS - Domain Admins don't have permissions despite being part of the Local Administrators group
As per "Best Practices" staff in our IT department have two accounts. An unprivileged account and an account that is a member of the global Domain Admins ($DOMAIN\Domain Admins) group. On our file ...
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postfix feed to program as root
trying to get postfix to pipe stdin from an email into a script that needs to be run by root (yes I understand the security issues of doing this. no lectures, please).
myalias: |/root/script/thing.rb ...
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Freebsd Secondary Group not allowing folder deletion
TLDR: I have a user that is a member to a group as a secondary group. This user can delete files with 664 perms as a secondary user, but not directories with perms of 775.
Details: I have a user. ...
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LAMP Setup, PHP's session_start permission denied
I'm trying to set up a development environment for a legacy system that runs CentOS 4.8, PHP 4.3.9, and MySQL 4.1.22. I'm matching OS and software versions to keep the development server as close to ...
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change Ubuntu folder permissions for short periods of time
I'm building a site using the Yii framework. It's hosted on Ubuntu and I'm developing on Windows. When I upload changes to the live site (via filezilla), I need to change permissions on folders or ...
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Permission Mystery - apt-get and other system utilities have 000 permissions
I'm trying to track down this strange behavoir for years now.
Always after installing software-updates the permissions of a lot of system-tools are broken as you can see below. I am reasonable ...
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linux/setfacl - Set all current/future files/directories in parent directory to 775 with specified owner/group
I have a directory called "members" and under it there are folders/files. How can I recursively set all the current folders/files and any future ones created there to by default have 775 permissions ...
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How can overlapping NFS permissions be configured?
I am running Solaris 10 on my NFS server. I am struggling with how to setup read-only access to a share from a subnet, but allow read-write access from a system within that subnet.
On the Server:
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Setting up limited AD account for external support person
I'm trying to setup a limited account for an outside company in active directory. They need to connect to one server to setup their software. I created a new group called "Limited Access", made that ...
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SYSTEM process not having write privileges
I'm running a process from the user SYSTEM. (In the Task Manager, the process is being run by the User Name SYSTEM, not my username.) Even though I'm an admin, the process can't write files over DFS ...
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Unable to su into any user
After I have fiddled with the folders /usr/bin, /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 I restored them, but was not able to su into root (and probably other accounts too):
Permissions on the password database may ...
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Can access file when browsing from computer but not on server [closed]
As described above. When uploading an image from Wordpress, the file can be viewed when I try to access it from my computer and browse through to the server, but not when I try to access it from the ...
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How do I configure a stored procedure wrapper and security settings to provide safe access to command-line operations?
I'm ultimately trying to find a way to allow the safe use of BCP and selected other command-line functionality from within SQL Server.
The organisation I am in currently have xp_cmdshell disabled ...
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Permission denied when trying to run a script at EC2 using ssh
I have an instance at AWS which contains an application deployment script in my home folder. The script contains sudo commands. I need to run this script automatically from a program at my local ...
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Samba4/Ubuntu Shares Incorrectly Available to All Users
I've got my Ubuntu server working with Samba4 and got it set up as the Primary domain controller on my network with AD and all that goodness.
However, I'm trying to get my Samba configuration to work ...
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chown: changing ownership of `.': Invalid argument
I'm trying to install some new files on our new server while our sysadmin is in holidays:
Here is my df
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3 273G ...
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Is this way of setting permissions secure?
I was reading the following question as I have the same issue:
FTP and Apache permission issues
The first solution, while not the accepted one, seems to be close to what I need. I've added both ...
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How to block a user from accessing SharePoint that's on a group with permissions to access
Example:
I added to Readers my 'DOMAIN\domain users' on SharePoint. I want to prevent user JOHN to access my SharePoint site, is there any way of doing that in SharePoint, without going into AD? Like ...
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Running a service with a user from a different domain not working
I've been stuck on this for a while, not sure what permission I'm missing. I've got domain A and domain B, A trusts B, but B does not trust A. I'm trying to run a service in domain A with a user ...
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What is the most efficent way to grant a user ready-only permisson to all folders and files on a file server?
We currently operate about four file servers, all running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Until now, we have used the Windows internal file search (aka “Indexing options”) and this worked OK and found all ...
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IIS permission configuration issue
Sorry the title of this question is a little ambiguous but I don't really have any idea where the issue lies - I'm seeking some clarification of the server error logs.
Basically, I had a dedicated ...
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How to revert mass ownership change? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
revert chmod 777 / -R
I accidentally executed the chown someuser * -R while I was at / on my server.
I thought maybe by issuing chown root * -R would somehow fix it. But ...
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ifdown em1 Users cannot control this device. Allow users to control em1 device
I want to allow users to control the em1 device in Linux:
When I run this command:
ifdown em1
em1 is the embedded ethernet card 1, I want the user to be able to turn off the ethernet card.
On ...
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BITS http download job fails to connect for owner Local SYSTEM account
A service I have written that uses BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) to auto update itself is having a problem on some machines (Windows 7 so far).
I have been investigating and have ...
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Granting service control manager access permission to user outside of administrator group
I have a user outside of administrator group.
How can I grant service control manager access permission for that (specific) user?
It's like SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS from the following link:
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Unable to upload to tmp directory
I'm trying to test out an http image upload function in PHP. I've tried this on Apache on both OSX (locally) and Ubuntu (remotely).
In php.ini I set upload_tmp_dir = /var/tmp/http-upload. Both tmp ...
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How to allow an IP in Virtualmin like we did in cpanel for MySQL access?
How can I allow an IP in webmin so I could connect to MySQL with specific user? I could do it in cPanel by adding that IP but in Virtualmin I think it's related to Host permissions or User ...
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Apache running as root instead of user specified in httpd.conf
I'm trying to enable WordPress to upload files to the wp-content folder without setting permissions for the folder to 777. However, I'm having some difficulties.
The group and user set for the ...
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Taking ownership of folder does not give full access
Summary:
Even after taking ownership of a newly created directory called "NewWebsite" inside the existing "c:\inetpub\" on a Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP1) I do not have full access. The most obvious ...
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Odd permissions issues on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Macs OS 10.6/.7/.8
*I have four macs that use a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to share files as part of their workflow, each user has their own folder and completed jobs are dropped in an archive folder when complete. ...
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VSFTPD uploaded file permissions
Let me first say that there are loads of topics regarding this, and I am sure i have seen them all by now. Still non of the solutions seem to help.
I installed vsftpd. created a user ftp-data. Now I ...
