Questions tagged [permissions]
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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Migrating mysql 'users' to new machine gives off errors
I have looked at the settings a great number of times but run into the same issue. When connected to my Linux box with the 'exact' same settings, no fault. When run on a fresh machine with xampp for ...
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Give apache user permission to read directory
UPDATE:
Saw this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/515243/why-cant-my-apache-process-write-to-my-world-writeable-file
Could this be SELinux related, currently /etc/sysconfig/selinux is ...
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Hide drive for unprivileged user
On Windows XP I want to create a new user for browsing only. Thus I want it to have access only to the download Folder. While this can be archived with file privileges easily, I cannot find a way to "...
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Block SQL 2008 R2 Insert Access on anything for user in MS ACCESS on AD Group
Hi I would like to block access to insert any data on SQL when a User from a determined Active Directory Group access SQL from MS ACCESS.
Is this possible?
if not is there any alternative?
I've ...
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Setting up individual accounts to a SQL Server
I am attempting to setup a MS 2008 sql server that would allow many users access to there own private databases. I would like the adventure works databases installed on all of these as well. My ...
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which permission should be for client svn folder?(Ubuntu)
which permission should be for client svn folder?(Ubuntu)
the case:
I should download files from svn server to my computer and able to do all svn action as programmer that doing change in the code(...
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exchange 2010 exchange management console, access denied. Time sync issue?
I installed Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008r2, my domain already has an Exchange 2007 organization present.
During the Exchange 2010 installation, two errors occurred:
Upon the hub transport ...
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NFS denies mount, even though the client is listed in exports
We have a couple of servers (part of an HPC cluster) in which we're currently seeing some NFS behavior which is not making sense to me. node1 exports its /lscratch directory via NFS to node2, mounted ...
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Linux Unable to Write to Directory Despite Permissions
I'm trying to give myself permissions to /var/www/ however for some reason I am unable to do so. Currently what I'm facing is this:
nick@server1:/var$ ls -l
drwxrwxr-x 5 root wwwusers 232 Mar 15 19:...
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CentOS Group Permissions
How do I give all users in the group ftp-users full read/write acces to /var/www recursively?
Thanks
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File permission set to 644 and wordpress cannot access them?
I'm having problems with WordPress not be able to access files. When installing certain themes and plugins, it comes up with an error saying that it cannot create the directory. When I try to edit ...
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Ubuntu Apache2 PHP execute permissions
I'm having this problem in PHP using exec():
sh: CutyCapt: Permission denied
So, how do I give permission to the apache user or www-data user to execute CutyCapt?
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How to make a normal user can install package with `pkg_add` on FreeBSD?
How to make a normal user can install package with pkg_add on FreeBSD?
pkg_add -r command fails with normal user with sudo. Downloading succeeds, but installation fails with this error message. Equal ...
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How do you grant read-only permissions on NTFS Security settings?
Is it possible to create a security group that can read who has permission to do what on NTFS folders but without granting Full Control or letting the group open files within those folders?
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OpenVPN Permission Denied Error
I am setting OpenVPN up, and I'm in the state of adding users.
Details:
Host System: Windows Server 2003 32-bit.
Guest System: Ubuntu Linux (with OpenVPN installed already), actually I downloaded it ...
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Mysql can not resolve hostnames when checking privileges
I'm going crazy to solve this. I have a mysql installation (on machine db.example.org) which doesn't resolve a given hostname. I gave privileges using hostnames i.e.
GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'user'@'...
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Server 2003 allow users to install printers on their workstation
It seems a user needs the 'install device' privilege which only Administrators and Power Users have..
How can I give domain users this privilege to install printers on their workstations? Or is ...
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IIS7 problem with IIS_IUSRS permission. Cannot play a mp3 file
I have an asp.net application on IIS 7 and Windows Server 2008. I have a folder where the administrator can upload mp3s through a asp.net form. The folder that the mp3s are stored has permissions ...
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How to provide write Access to root drive in windows server 2003?
How to provide write Access to root drive in windows server 2003 for "non-admin" users ?
This is kind of requirement now, and happening in a controlled environment, so dont bother about security ...
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How can I allow non-administrators to use port-specific USB devices that require a driver-reinstall for each new port?
Is there a way to give non-admin users the right to (re-)install drivers for a port-specific USB device so that they do not need an administrator login every time they plug the same device into a ...
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SQL 2008. How to let user to create/alter sprocs in only one particular schema?
I have a user which can read and write but now he needs to be able to create/alter a sproc but giving him ddl_admin will make it too unsecure. I dont trust him that much.
What can I do about it? Can ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - Giving local administrator full rights to all folders
Is there a quick way to give the local administrator full rights to all folders on the C drive? I am having really hard time with that, I try to give it full rights to some folders (user profiles) ...
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"Sent on behalf" not appearing when delegates sending mails
Ringo is a delegate of Paul's mailbox in Exchange, but when Ringo sends mail from Paul's mailbox, the recipient sees "Paul" in the sender field, rather than "Paul Sent On Behalf Of Ringo"
Paul has ...
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URL throwing 403 forbidden
/main on my server I can't access...
drwxrwxr-x 2 nobody ftp 4.0K 2011-01-10 14:41 dbs
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nobody ftp 1.5K 2008-10-01 00:00 help
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nobody ftp 102 2011-01-10 15:19 .htaccess
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Ownership/permissions of uploaded files
I want to find out if I am on the right track.
My upload script that does the following:
Check if the extension is gif, png, jpg org jpeg
Check if mime is image/jpeg, image/png, image/gif
Check if a ...
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(Some) security perms in WinXP corrupted (shows GUID instead of username)
I've been using my Win XP machine (part of a domain) over the holiday period, so until yesterday it hadn't rebooted for about five days. I used it yesterday perfectly fine and shut it down. When I ...
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Is it possible to get write/read permissions back after removing *all* read/write/execute permissions with chmod?
I accidentally removed all the permissions from a file. Now I don't have permission to chmod it. Is there any way of chmod(ing) the file back?
Thank you
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CGI file executes only on local machine, not online
I've got a CGI script written in python (starts with #!/usr/bin/env python) that executes fine on the server. I type in /home/company/server/root/adam/code.cgi and it outputs the right output. I go to ...
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as a domain member, 'run with administrative privileges' always asks for hostname
Since we run Windows 7-clients in our windows-server domain I have a specific use case that has become more inconvenient:
On the client-site, being logged-on as an user with restricted rights and ...
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Exchange 2007 Read-Only permissions to shared accounts
I have Exchange 2007 running on SBS 2008. There are several accounts created which are shared by departments.
In the shared email users keep track of the status of jobs by moving them to Sub ...
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Access backup files with different UID
Say I have a user with UID 500 on a linux machine for administration purposes. This machine is a backup repository for other *nix machines.
I need the user 500 to access the files in the backups, but ...
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How to access files over a network using local accounts?
I have setup a small (wireless) home network comprising of 3 computers. Two with Vista and one Windows 7. There is no domain controller for this network and all accounts on all machines are locally ...
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User's privilegies (Mysql, Nginx, Php-fpm)
got questions of unsuccessful searches
1 - Why almost every software should run with its own user, is so simple run everything with a single user, why no one do that ?
2 - Why can't I just set the ...
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How to check IUsrs permissions for specific folder
I was wondering if someone could help me.
I have no experience at all with servers at all, but from time to time in my job I get thrown into the deep end!
What I have basically is a web ...
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web files permission setup
I could not find out what is the best way to setup your web files under UNIX OS.
I have Apache running on Centos OS, I put my root directory under /var/www/html
Here is the example:
/var/www/html ...
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Copying folders/permissions from Win2k3 to Win2k8 R2
I am copying files and folders from a file share on Windows 2003 32bit to a new file share on Windows 2008 R2 64bit. I have been using Robocopy testing on some folders and am able to only successfully ...
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Gitosis permissions issues
I have Gitosis installed on a Centos box which I use to manage about a dozen repos(html/php/css etc) which I then manually pull through to live sites running on nginx/php as needed.
The issue I have ...
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forcing EDIT of access backend database
here is my situation:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3962892/forcing-edit-of-access-backend-database
i am wondering if there is a permissions solution. perhaps i can have the network guy remove ...
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Linux permissions for WinSCP'ing into Apache site
I'm running an Ubuntu server with apache2/mod_mono
Ive got:
/home/user/www
The only way I've been able to get this all working is by:
chown -R www-data:www-data /home/user/www
I'd like to be able ...
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Allow access to htdocs dir via samba
I managed to setup samba on a ubuntu server so that I can browse my home directory /home/max via windows.
Now I would like to share the directory /usr/local/apache2/htdocs - what do I have to do in ...
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How to I Document User Rights on an existing Linux System?
Need to document user rights on an existing Linux system.
What commands, actions, etc. will allow me to gather complete user profiles?
User rights include, but are not limited to:
File/Directory: ...
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What is wrong with my permissions
mysql> show databases;
ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can't read dir of '.' (errno: 13)
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Allowing the www user access to a folder in my home folder [OSX]
Simple permissions question.
I want the www user to have read write access to a subfolder in my home folder. Obviously, I want to be able to use it too!
I know I can execute:
sudo chown -R www:www /...
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Read Only For Some Documents But Not Others
I have a client who have a Windows 2003 Server acting as a file share and DHCP server. The server is not setup as a domain, it just uses a workgroup called COMPANY.
There are a few file shares on the ...
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How to use restricted groups GPO's
I am going through the process of removing all my users from local admins from their machines. I put each user as local admin when the box was imaged so I could avoid all the trouble. Well, now after ...
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Request for the permission of type System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission failed
Full Error Message:
System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission, System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=...
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Regular users getting "Access is denied" when running program
We have a piece of software that's installed on a server, and users login to the terminal server to use it, i.e. everyone uses the same files. We recently updated the software by logging in as an ...
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Deleting a file created with a SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE
I am trying to delete a file created with a SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE statement into the /tmp directory
The file belongs to the mysql user (who doesn't have a login shell).
I have administrative ...
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Security groups not allowing domain admin to view files
This should be very simple. I have my Documents folders redirected to a share called //dc/documents. It creates a folder under this share for each person and then creates a folder under that for My ...
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Easy to use remote PHP app for controlling file permissions?
We have a NAS here, in a small company, that I sysadmin (not my full-time job) and my boss want to
have control on directory access. It's a QNAP so it's Linux-powered.
The NAS doesn't provide an ...
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