Questions tagged [user-permissions]
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How do I access the list of currently logged on users through Terminal Services Manager in Windows Server 2012?
In Windows 2003 and 2008 we had Terminal Services Manager (see screenshot below). However in Windows server 2012 it's gone.
Does anyone know how to access the list of currently remotely logged on ...
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How can I copy MySQL users table from one server to another? [duplicate]
I'm setting up up a new MySQL server and I'd like to give it the same set of usernames, allowed hosts, and passwords as an existing server (which is going away).
Would it work to just do a dump of ...
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Scheduled Task in Windows Server 2016, run by non-admin Users
In earlier windows server versions (prior to 2016) it was possible to grant non-admin users the permission to run a scheduled task by doing following steps:
Scheduled Task: run under system, execute ...
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How to give rights to one user for the restart of a service
It's there a way i can give the rights to a specific user, for restart a specific service on windows server 2008 ?
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Can I "allow logon locally" for ALL local accounts and some domain accounts?
I have used a "Allow logon locally" GPO on a few machines to restrict who can use them. It is annoying that I have to create/link a separate GPO for each set of machines/users (Where is item-level ...
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Executing a command as a nologin user
I've recently set up my server so that my suPHP 'virtual' users can't be logged into by using this article
My issue now is that before when I ran a rake command for my Ruby on Rails application ...
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Should dev be admin on their computer? [closed]
In a corporate environment, should developers have admin rights on their computer? Why?
Technological environment:
Windows 7
Visual Studio 2008 & 2010
SQL Server
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Is locking down a developers machine more effort than its worth? [closed]
Having worked as a developer and in IT admin/support for a development team, I've come across many different types of environment from the completely locked down to the completely non. In my limited ...
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How do large companies handle software updates for users without administrative rights?
I just started working for a small-medium size company doing IT support. Maybe 150 or less users.
Right now every user has administrative rights to their own machine. This allows them to install ...
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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:
http://...
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Win2008: SC SDSET - how to grant a specific local user rights to stop and start a specific local service?
Where is a useful reference for the sdset command?
I can read and read, and I have yet to find a straightforward list of steps to say:
Service: App
User: Joe
Grant Joe start/stop/restart to App
(...
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Unable to access organisations's IAM settings in Google Cloud
We recently gained access to the "organisation" feature in Google Cloud. By default, everyone in our organisation had the "project creator" privilege but I decided to lock this down and restrict ...
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Why can't I drag/drop a file for editing in notepad in Windows Server 2008?
When notepad is run, I can drag/drop a file to open it, but then it can't save the file.
When I run notepad elevated to save the file, I can no longer drag/drop to open the file.
I understand its a ...
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/var/www rights management
I have a server with several users and would like to allow some of them to store webpages on it. Thus, I have created subdirectories of /var/www for them and configured my webserver accordingly.
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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 doesn'...
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Permission issues in cloudSQL SQL Server (GCP)
I see permission error when i tried to shrink files/db in CloudSQL sql server.
I know its a managed service and do not have sa user and super privileges.
But is there any similar user like sa (or) ...
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Password less mysql access to specified user/script only
In addition to this question:
Performing root mysql operations in bash scripts
I'd like to ask how to limit/allow this action (performing root administrative actions):
mysql --local-path=mypath -e "...
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Allow mysql user to be used just by specified user
Currently any system user can run:
systemuser$ mysql -u mysqluser -p
(assuming he knows the password).
Is there a way to deny mysql (cli) to use particular mysql user?
eg.
systemuser$ mysql -u ...
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How do I set my web server to run as a specific user other than 'nobody'?
This is for an unremarkable LAMP server running Ubuntu. The reason I want to do this is because I want a php script to be able to run a linux command via the exec() function and the command I want to ...