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Setting per-directory umask using ACLs
We want to mimic the behavior of a system-wide 002 umask on a certain directory foo, in order to ensure the following result:
All sub-directories created underneath foo will have 775 permissions
All ...
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Auto set Active Directory attributes upon new User creation
I have successfully created an OpenLDAP (CentOS 6.2) to Active Directory (Windows Server 2008 R2) connection. I can login to my CentOS using an AD user.
Problem is, the AD user has to have these ...
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Do the GnuWin32 tools require the POSIX subsystem to run?
I would like to remove Posix from the Group Policy Object Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options\System settings: Optional Subsystems.
Do ...
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Including partial scripts as part of a POSIX shell
I can't get a straight answer ANYWHERE about this question.
In BASH, you can include a 'partial' script and execute it inline in the rest of your bash script with the following syntax:
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Linux ACL behaviour: settings the mask changes 'ls' output, but not actual permissions
It might be the time of night, but this is puzzling me. Picture the following.
[root@node1 acltest]# getfacl foo/
# file: foo
# owner: root
# group: testuser
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::---
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Does anyone know where a good resource for NFS4 ACLs can be found?
I am attempting to utilize NFS4 ACL's in an environment already utilizing POSIX ACL's. I've found a handful of sites on the internet that explain some technical details about NFS4 ACL's and how ...
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ionice process group?
Is there an easy way to change the I/O priority of a whole group of processes the way renice -g does? It seems like only changing the I/O priority of a single process is supported by ionice. If this ...
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ngrep Headers/Frames
Using the -x flag with ngrep causes the data portion of packets to be displayed in hex. Is there a way to also display the frames/headers as well?
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Bash build environment settings
I'm newbie in Bash and I'm using MinGW as a GCC compiler.
I have .profile in my home directory which sets building environment.
Here is .profile content.
What's a difference in commented/uncommented ...
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Can Samba support full Windows-ACLs?
I've set up a Samba 3 host with AD integration and an ACL enabled filesystem. Using a windows client I can set users and groups permissions.
Up to now, Samba just maps to POSIX ACL's rwx permissions, ...
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Secure Network Filesystems for Linux: What are people doing?
NFSv3 is widespread, but the default security model is... quaint. CIFS can use Kerberos authentication, but without POSIX semantics it's a non-starter. AFS never did encrypt traffic on the wire and ...
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time format “ls” in MacOSX
I have a Apple server, and when I use ls -alFt
output shows:
"drwxrwxrwx 267 admin www 9078 Mar 31 2010 3/"
and
"drwxrwxrwx 483 admin www 16422 Jul 9 09:58 26/"
what is ...
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What are the practical differences between Interix and Cygwin?
Both Interix and Cygwin appear to provide a Unix-like user environment in Windows. What are the practical differences between the two, in terms of, for example:
Unix-like "feel"
Performance
Package ...
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Explain why folder's permissions differ depending on HOW user is accessing server AFP vs SSH
Hoping someone can explain what is probably fairly obvious...but confuses me.
Imagine two users with admin privileges on our server (Mac OS X Server 10.5). Call them joe & bob.
both users are ...
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Monitoring and terminating a hanged process in Linux
I'm writing a script that runs many simultaneous processes that run the "dig" command. Once in a while (relatively rare, but happens in every run since I run dig many times) the dig command hangs with ...
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Give pthread_setschedparam() permissions to non-root user (linux)
How can I give a non-root user permission to execute pthread_setschedparam() to set thread priorities?
Thank you
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Specify default group and permissions for new files in a certain directory
I have a certain directory in which there is a project shared by multiple users. These users use SSH to gain access to this directory and modify/create files.
This project should only be writeable to ...
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What's the purpose of setgid directory?
I know how setgid works, but I don't know why it is designed, is there any example to illustrate what problems it solves?
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OpenLDAP & Posix Groups/Account
I'm not able to add posix users/groups to this newly created ldap directory. OpenLDAP version is 2.4.19.
The LDIF I've populated the LDAP directory is probably the problem, but I'm not sure what I ...
