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What's the difference between effective user id and real user id? [closed]

I am a Ruby developer, and in the Ruby File API, I read the doc: readable?(file_name) Returns true if the named file is readable by the effective user id of this process. readable_real?(file_name) ...
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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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Nginx installed from apt-get - Do I need to create my own user?

I was building Nginx from source but now I am installing using apt-get. I was wondering if it is still necessary to create my own user to run the process manually or if it does that as part of the ...
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How do I change the User Name on my netbook [closed]

I already have already changed the general user name. I am asking about the main user name. At my log in I am prompted for my password under my user name, but below that is says the wrong name. ...
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I changed my password and now I can't ssh in [closed]

I changed my password using the passwd command as root user and now when I try to ssh in to the server it says permission denied. Is there any reason why my new password would not work? I can't really ...
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Linux - user privilege google chrome install [closed]

Can I install Google chrome (From RPM) with user privileges? (I Don't have Root permissions or su doesn't work). I tried to create a RPM database in my local directory. Tried to install the package ...
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Some changes to audited AD user account not showing up in audit logs

In our Active Directory domain, we have some strange things happening to a certain user account: In the security rights for that user object, the "Include inheritable permissions from this object's ...
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Windows 7 can no longer access domain, stuck on one local account

thanks in advance for your time. I have a laptop on my domain that was recently re-imaged after having the same issue describe below, everything worked perfectly on it, could log on to my domain ...
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I edited /etc/passwd and have strange problems

I manually edited /etc/passwd for non-root user - yeah, I know this is bad. Unfortunately I saw this (SSH failing authentication after manual edit of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow) very late. I already ...
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PHP file writes files that have different owners [closed]

I'm running Plesk 9.5 on a VPS. Apache runs as user Apache and all my htdocs files automatically owned by 'doggz' (that's me). I wrote a PHP script that writes log data into text files, each day a ...
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Allow normal user to run PHP script as root using SUDO

How can I allow a normal user on Ubuntu to run php scripts? sudo php /path/to/script/script.php Basically the script needs to be run as root but the users does not have root privileges on their ...
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w2008 R2 - User and permission

I need to create a group or users or user that is able to download certain software. I know there are software that requires different type of permissions. I would like that user to have the privilege ...
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Linux ssh user connect

I all, I have a linux Server (Ubuntu) where some user can be connect to by ssh. Is possible to know who was connected to the server? A sort of list of login by ssh of the past day. Is possible to ...
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Proper way to create a new user [closed]

I freely admin that I am a server admin newbie, and I'd like to grant someone access to my server to help me on a project. Let's call this person 'joe'. I'd like joe to have access to only one ...
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How do I reconfigure Apache to run as a different user on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Server

I'm trying to get Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Server to run Apache as a different user (Other than _www). I've changed the lines in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf from User _www Group _www to ...
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Debian USER with read/write permissions for www

I have a Debian Squeeze server with an EasySCP admin panel. This panel set domain folders in /var/www/virtual/domain.name Every domain has a unique ID of vu2000, vu2001... Ownership of the files ...
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How to execute (some) CGI commands as root

I want to put a simple CGI script in my APACHE server. I'd like to write it possibly in C (but also in PERL, if I want). The problem is that it must contain some lines that can be executed only by ...
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switch user doesnt work, after creating user [closed]

I'm rather new to the whole setting up a server, and hardening a server thing, but I had to start today. I mainly have experience with my ubuntu desktop. Anyway, I just created a new user, that I ...
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Unable to change user in security context of symlink

I have created a few symbolic links to replace some broken links in /etc/pam.d. The original links have system_u as the user. The newly created ones somehow have unconfined_u as the user. I am not ...
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Nginx access log shows authenticated user “admin”

I came across a line in my Nginx access log: 218.201.121.99 - admin [12/Dec/2012:18:33:18 +0800] "GET /manager/html HTTP/1.1" 444 0 "-" "-" Let me stress that there is only 1 record with this IP. ...
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finding the user - without knowing the innards of IIS

Place of crime is WinSrv2008 with IIS7. My IIS apppool user is trying to create a folder but fails. How do I find out which User it is? Let's say I don't know much about IIS7 and Aspnet but need ...
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runuser in rc.local

I have to setup port forwarding on system start and have this configured in my rc.local runuser -l phpAdmin -c 'ssh -f -N -L 9904:localhost:3306 phpAdmin@<server>' When rc.local is executed, ...
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IE9 not working for a specific domain user [closed]

User logged on this morning. Could not get IE9 to load any web pages. Logged in under Admin and my non-admin account, works fine browsing web. There's no extra browser toolbar things like Ask, Google ...
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Deleting a user in unix

Does deleting/removing a user automatically remove the user from all groups the user was a member in?
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MySQL allows entry without Password

I have configured my MySQL Database to require passwords on all users, even root from the machine itself. Now I discovered that there are empty Users in my Database Reproduce: mysql -u root -p and ...
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How can i create a user with password in EC2 instance?

I have an EC2 instance on which i have set up a Git server. Now to access this server from eclipse plugin outside, i need a username/password for an instance user. All i can see is that i have user ...
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Flash media server 4.5 max user? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? I'm want to build a flash media server 4.5 but I can not find a limit users per server. I mean, I don't know how many users I ...
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Monitoring usage resources per user in Linux

I want to get statistic hourly by used averages resources per user such as cpu and memory. How I can get it?
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How to set postgresql user password in bash script

I want to set a password for the default Postgresql server user, postgres. I did it by using: sudo -u postgres psql # \password postgres I want to do this step in many machines, so I would like ...
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Can I sudo a command on behalf of another user?

I'm using drupal and Aegir. Aegir automates many tasks of site creation. Aegir has control of Apache, I'm logen in as root, and I want to restart the Apache server, but I want to do it on Aegirs ...
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How do I set a local user a user rights assignment on an active directory GPO?

We have a process where I work, where any changes to active directory GPOs are performed on test servers, backed up and then the backups applied to the live AD. I'm in the process of amending a GPO ...
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How to give root user and group permission while ftp uploading for a normal user

I have to upload some videos files for streaming purpose. While uploading the videos as a ftp user, it will have the ftp user and group permission. But now in my case, the files uploaded by the ftp ...
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Exchange accidentally forwards sent mails from one User to another User's Inbox

Like the Topic says: Our Exchange Server accidentally forwards sent mails from one User to another User's Inbox. The sent mails are mostly to Outbound Adresses and they where successfully delivered ...
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Why adding new user to Remote desktop group doesn't automatically creates him a folder in C:\users

I am administrating a remote Windows Server 2008 Standard. I have already 17 users in 'Remote Desktop Users' and all of them have home folders in c:\users. But when I've added the 18th user it didn't ...
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using screen in another user with su

So, if i do this: su -c 'screen -dmS screenname script to run' - user to run as It won't work. The screen command is working if excecuted from root, so there is no problem there. If I do: su - ...
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MySQL and User level logging

I have been looking at logging only certain users activity in MySQL. I found that the logging could be enabled or disabled for all users but one of the service using the db does a lot of queries and ...
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Where IIS keeps user account info?

Where does IIS keep user account information ( login and password )? Does IIS keep the information in the Windows SAM file? Is there a way to prevent hackers from getting it? I have heard IIS is ...
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Creating a restricted unix user

I have Fedora 15 installed on my VPS, and I want to create a user who can only view all files on the system but may only write to its own home folder. Thank you
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Apache groups & users web administration

I am looking for a web administration interface to manage my Apache users & groups. Basically, I would like to be able to : List all users Add a new user Remove a user Create a new group Delete ...
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Regular user doing su

I'm using Ubuntu server 12.04. If a user is only a member of it's own group why he can still do su SOME_OTHER_USER ? Can I prevent this?
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Unix: how can I change Program's running user and running group?

I changed the APACHE_RUN_GROUP in /etc/apache2/envvars to APACHE_RUN_GROUP=web-content because I want Apache to run us www-data:web-content, insetad of www-data:www-data. I hate monotonous manual ...
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File/Directory permissions for SFTP user

After using the SSH quite a lot on my 1.5 week old Debian 6 VPS, I wanted to start uploading files through SFTP. I already tried that earlier, but with the root account, which isn't possible with SSH ...
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How do I change my password on a Cisco Catalyst 2960 switch?

I was given a username and a temporary password on a catalyst switch and I can't figure out how to change my password... Upon googling, I found this but when I raise my privileges to 15 by typing ...
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placeholder for later username in /etc/skel

Is there any possibility to use a placeholder in the config files located in /etc/skel that is replaced by the username later? e.g. I place ":USER:" in one config file and create a new user with the ...
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Need to make a scheduled task run as another user but keep the current user’s environment

I need to backup users .pst files. The current method I am trying is making a shadow copy using Diskshadow. My script works great all but Diskshadow needs to be ran as administrator but also needs to ...
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Linux user cannot read or edit outside their home directory

I was wondering how to setup user accounts on linux where the user cannot read or edit outside their home directory. Thanks, Ben
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What happens to a users files when I delete the user in linux?

Thats pretty much the question: I would like to know who owns the files belonging to a deleted user
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Running apache + mod_wsgi as different user

I have a django project, which I am moving from the dev-server to apache. I have managed to get it server with mod_wsgi, but it runs as apache. Mod_wsgi documentation says, that if apache is run as ...
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Intermittent FTP login issues (Microsoft IIS FTP Service)

I've got a somewhat weird problem which I'm not sure how to troubleshoot. We have a FTP running on a Windows Server 2003 machine using the IIS FTP Service, this is for our clients and is configured ...
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Distinguish between login, user name and uid in VMWare vShere Client

When creating a new user, I see this below box. What are the different between them?

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