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The opposite of su: run a command without root privileges
I'm writing a shell script where most commands don't require root privileges.
The script should be ran by the administrator. But I would like to be able to "su" to a normal user account for the parts ...
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Which user should cron jobs run as?
Ubuntu server with users
root
www-data
mywebsite1
mywebsite2
There are multiple websites hosted on this server, each with their own user.
Each website has their own cron jobs mostly ...
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SeTcbPrivilege not working, RSoP.msc, gpresult show it's enabled, whoami /priv shows disabled
I'm trying to install Cygwin with SSHd on a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller. I have installed Cygwin and SSHd several times on other machines, with no issues.
Being a domain controller, the ...
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w command not showing users when not root
I have multiple users logged on my server (ubuntu 12.10), with ssh. None of them has root privileges.
If I log in with my admin account and type
w
the resulting output is:
17:21:05 up 10 days, ...
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Problems with user's privileges, wordpress, phpmyadmin, my host provider and I hope that's all [closed]
So I've been trying to install a new wordpress site beside an already working site. I want to have 2 different databases, so i created a new one, and I didn't go very far from that. I get the message ...
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GRANT/REVOKE on functions
I am using the has_function_privilege, to check and see if a certain user can access a function in my database. However, if I use REVOKE to revoke access, has_function_privilege still returns true:
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Give user-creation privileges to a user
In MySQL, how do you allow another user to create other users? In turn, those users should only be able to view some tables.
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How to grant full rights in smb.conf for subnet?
I have following smb.conf: http://pastebin.com/gCchZQvC
Situation is that when I'm mapping my shares I need to login using my credentials to have ability to create directories and files. When I'm ...
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Prevent setuid from dropping setcap user privileges (VirtualBox)
I'm trying to run a web server from a headless, NAT'd VirtualBox guest. VirtualBox needs to bind to port 80, but the only way to do so is by running VirtualBox as root. To get around this, I tried ...
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Granting rights on postgresql database to another user
I'm trying to set up a system with a PostgreSQL database per user, with a PHP-FPM resource pool for an associated account. I need to grant all privileges on the database to the other user, but it ...
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Run application under Administrator when UAC is disabled [closed]
When the UAC is disabled, an application is launched in regular mode (i.e., it does not take into account the manifest) and the credentials window (for the administrator's login/password) does not ...
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What is the point of the ''@localhost user in MySQL? [closed]
Quoting MySQL docs:
If you cannot figure out why you get Access denied, remove from the
user table all entries that have Host values containing wildcards
(entries that contain '%' or '_' ...
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Troubleshooting sudoers via ldap
The good news is that I got sudoers via ldap working on Red Hat Directory Server. The package is sudo-1.7.2p1. I have some LDAP/Kerberos users in an LDAP group called wheel, and I have this entry in ...
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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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How can I run an elevated powershell script as part of VMWare Customization Specification?
Background / Goal
I have a VMWare template that I am deploying and I am using VMWare's "customization specifications" to perform many of the sysprep tasks.
The last thing I need to accomplish is ...
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How to run a command as administrator on Windows7 from a command line?
I need to run tscon.exe 0 /dest:console remotely = not manually on Windows7 as an administrator. More info here How to use tscon on Windows7?
I did my research and
OPTION 1 - runas
for user ...
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why i cannot run screen command on openshift?
i am using redhat openshift, and find some problems now:
a) why default screen can not support path which contains too much characters
[xxname-xxname.rhcloud.com ~]\> which screen
/usr/bin/screen
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Why can't I change the mode of /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max even when I am root?
Since pty is limited, I want to modify the content of /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max.
The original value in max is 4096, and now I want to modify it to 10000.
[root@home pty]# pwd
/proc/sys/kernel/pty
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mass create privileges for mysql stored procedures
Is it possible to grant a privilege to a user such that they can execute all stored procs on the server (or even within a single db on that server). Looking at the grant syntax docs (5.5), it says ...
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Eliminate invalid privileges from MySQL
I have privileges floating around in the mysql.* tables pertaining to users, databases and tables which no longer exist. Is there a simple way to find and remove these orphaned entries?
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mysql: grant database and table privileges
In one database i have lots of tables which should be read-only for user XY and 3 tables which must be read+write (in the same DB).
I set the DB specific privileges to SELECT only, I tried to append ...
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No users with ALL PRIVILEGES
I've encountered an issue after upgrade of MySQL server.
Probably, upgrade procedure went south.
The result was that none of the users had ALL PRIVILEGES grant.
All the administrators had GRANT ...
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What are the privileges of application that runs in the security zone “Internet Zone”?
We've got an application that is deployed throught ClickOnce. When we install it from an URL, this application has the security zone "Internet Zone".
As I mentionned in the title, I'd like to find a ...
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Upstart: allowing a normal user to stop and start my custom service
I have got my webserver application starting on boot using upstart. This is the upstart script:
# web app node upstart file at /etc/init/webapp.conf
description "web application"
start on started ...
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Why can I access only the security tab on a server's printers?
Context: Win7 64-bit client, Windows Server 2003
I log into the server using MSTSC. The server is running Windows Server 2003, 32bit.
I call up the list of Printers and Faxes from the Start menu. I ...
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Is it possible to specify MySQL global privileges for a specific table in all databases?
We have several databases with the same structure running on our MySQL server. Now we need an user which requires INSERT privileges on all databases, but on a specific table.
Is it possible?
I tried ...
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How do I automatically elevate privileges to install applications that require admin privileges?
I'm currently managing a large group of Windows 7 machines where no one has privileges to install applications (all 64-bit Enterprise version of Windows 7).
Because no one has privileges to install ...
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Run batch files as administrator user
I have a segment with 100 computers.
I am booting each machne from WinPE OS located on a CD. After the OS has finished loading, I want to automatically run a batch file that will copy the CD to the ...
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phpMyAdmin sends me to login page when clicking on Privileges tab
I had wanted to change the root mysql passwords so I went into the privileges tab and changed all of the passwords with the user name root (not smart with not knowing what I was doing I know).
I went ...
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Delegate log off privilege?
Is it possible to delegate the right to log other users off? I'd like to give users the ability to log another user off of a computer, but I'm not willing to make everyone administrators to do so. We ...
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Is there a way to do a “run as” in a command line?
So, we are trying to push out the full .Net Framework 4 to all out client workstations within an Active Directory environment via the login batch file in the SYSVOL folder. I added the following ...
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Can I modify a Windows 7 environment to allow a .NET program to always run as Administrator?
We are about to roll out several hundred new machines running Windows 7 x64, with the OS installed via WDS so at the moment we can make changes and sysprep them into the build.
The problem is a ...
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Efficient privilege separation under Apache2 + PHP 5.3
What's the preferred way to setup a privilege separated, shared environment with Apache2 security and performance wise? I'd like to run each virtualhost under a different user/group and handle PHP ...
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Different level of configuration commands for different users
I'd like to allow junior staff to make certain changes to the configuration on our Cisco routers. I don't much like having to divulge the enable password, but if I can at least keep them to a few ...
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How do I grant the privilege to add users to a specific Active Directory group?
I want give a user privileges to add users to a specific Active Directory group in my domain. How can I do this?
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Is there a GPO for prompting login for accessing network resources?
I get the error message that I don't have the right privileges to access the network resource (and that is correct) when I want to access my network share from a workstation (Windows 7) in the domain. ...
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Why Remove Shell Access for the Apache/Nginx User?
Is it a bad idea to grant shell access to the user account destined to be running Apache/Nginx?
I ask because, the Guvnr, in his VPS Bible series, sets up a new user with visudo'd
guvnr ALL=(ALL) ...
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Give user backup and restore privilege for delprof2?
We are trying to run delprof2 without having to right click and run as administrator. IWhen run on the technician account it says that the user doesnt have backup and restore privilege's.
Is it ...
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Domain Admin on Win 7 64-bit can not install programs
The application is a .net application and need admin privilege to install.
- If you log in as a local admin, the installation can be done.
- If you log in as a domain admin, running the package by ...
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Running Truecrypt in a company environment without admin privileges
We'd like to deploy TrueCrypt for a full system and usb stick encryption in our company. Our systems are Microsoft based with Windows 7 and our normal users do not have administrator privileges, thus ...
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MySQL Privileges required to GRANT EVENT, EXECUTE, LOCK TABLES, and TRIGGER
I have an account, user_a, and I would like to grant all available permissions on some_db to user_b. I have tried the following query:
GRANT
ALTER, ALTER ROUTINE,
CREATE, CREATE ROUTINE, ...
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Clean up MySQL privileges
Is it possible to delete users/privileges who exist but don't have access to a database (excluding users with global privileges)
Also I notice a number of "database-specific privileges" that no ...
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How can I block everything but Internet Explorer for users?
I am wondering if it is possible in both Windows Vista & Windows 7 to block everything but Internet Explorer, as well as block downloading? I am trying to set up a computer in a kiosk terminal for ...
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Recovering mysql user table
I accidentally deleted the records from the mysql.user table on my mysql server. I didn't flush the privileges yet so I have the root privilege.
Is there a way to recover the table or to create the ...
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Domain administrator vs local admininstrator, and accessing workstations remotely
I am experimenting with a home domain network based on Windows Server 2008. I initially assumed that since I am a domain administrator, I should also have full access rights to workstations on the ...
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Group policy startup script needs elevated priviledges
I have a script that I want to run at startup but that requires elevated priviledges. Is there a way of doing this with Group Policy?
I tried adding it in as a startup script using GPO but it ...
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Ports below 1024
DISCLAIMER: I know how to run daemons that either listen on ports <1024 by using privbind or some iptables REDIRECT. Or more generally spoken, how to make daemons available on priviliged ports that ...
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How to add a privilege to an account in Windows?
Given:
A VM running Windows 2008
I am logged on there using my domain account (SHUNRANET\markk)
I have added the "Create global objects" privilege to my domain account:
The VM is restarted (I know ...
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How to prevent WSEACCESS error on Send via raw socket on Windows XP SP3 for normal user accounts
I have recently begun trying to run our company apps under normal windows user accounts rather than under an account with Administrators group membership. Several of these are failing when atempting ...
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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 ...
