Permissions is an extremely vital principle in security. The usage of permissions spans from as low-level as a single machine instruction to an entire network. sandboxing
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By-passing default permissions when mounting HFS+ volumes in linux
I have a dual booting macbook pro with Snow Leopard and Kubuntu 11.10, and want to read (don't care about write) my home Mac home directory when I'm running Kubuntu.
I can mount it without any ...
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Why does 7-zip.exe return “Access is denied” with these arguments/parameters?
In a batch file:
START "7-zip" /D "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\" "7z.exe" a -o testArchive F:\test
Or, alone on the cmd as:
7z.exe a -o testArc C:users\user\desktop\test
returns "Access is denied". I ...
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Administrator Account Is Corrupted?
After successfully solving my previous problem i stumbled upon another shortly after. Once i logged into my administrator account i have noticed the following missing:
Quick launch which also cannot ...
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How to make a local user be able to edit files created by _www user and group on OS X?
I'm using OS X Snow Leopard. I have a web application hosted locally in the web server folder with _www user and _www group.
I'm unable to edit those files with my local user, who is part of the ...
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How to prevent a folder from being cut, copied or opened from others?
I have a folder which is with in the www folder (/wamp/root/www). I need to prevent this folder from being cut, copied and opened from others.
Is there is any way to do this?
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Creating files and directories with a certain owner (user/group) while sudoing
I need to wget something (results in a compressed file in cwd), then I have to extract it, then do some copy/move/modification stuff and perhaps finally execute an script (from the downloaded ...
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Unable to edit files in _www group on OS X
I am using my MacBook as a local dev environment. In order to make the files publishable I had to give my web folder user and group of _www:_www using chown.
I'm using another account to log into my ...
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Howto access folders in a Macrium Reflect Image that belong to another user?
The following steps were made to access files in a folder that was created with Macrium Reflect on a Windows 7 64 Bit system.
In the last dialog I could change the owner and the permission but ...
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Is there a solution to replace Account Unknown (S-1-5-21-*) SIDs with existing SID
I have a typical "Account Unknown" on many files from old/other Windows installations and there are a ton of typical answers everywhere.
However, I'm not looking for typical takeown, subinacl, xcacls ...
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Prevent Windows 7 User Accounts from accessing files in other User Accounts
I'm trying to set up another User Account on my Windows 7 Professional laptop for use by another person. I do not want that person to have access to any of the files in my User Account on the same ...
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Command to list permission of file and all folders from root to the file's path
Given a file, say /var/some_dir_1/some_dir_2/some_dir_3/some_file,
is there a single command that will list the permissions of some_file and all the directories in its path from root, i.e. the ...
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rsync: archiving over ssh
I'd like to use rsync to regularly archive a local directory containing upwards of 4G of data, using a low-privileges user account on a remote machine that has write access to only the backup ...
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strange permission error involving ssh, Cygwin, Windows 7, and .sh files
I am new to Cygwin, ssh, and messing with file permissions and have a problem. On computer WORKER1, I am attempting to ssh into computer WORKER2 and then running a .sh file on WORKER1 from there. From ...
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How to mount HFS+ drive and ignore permissions
I installed Ubuntu and Windows on my MacBook and Ubuntu is my primary OS; however, all of my media stays on my OSX partition. I want to be able to access it (at least my OSX user's home folder) from ...
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Windows 7(or XP)'s Network Security Tab Missing
I am setting a local network of windows xp and windows 7 machines, together with a NAS (Synology Diskstation DS209). And then i set up those windows machines so that the users can access the ...
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Unable to Change Windows Vista Read-Only Folder Attribute
Windows Vista and 7 use the read-only attribute of folders to also indicate that the folder is 'custom.'
It turns out that this is preventing programs I use from updating files in my documents ...
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Setting security for a folder in Windows 7
I have two groups: groupA and groupB. And I have six users: 1,2,3,4,5,6.
Group A includes: 1,2,3,4
Group B includes: 5,6
How to set up rights to the folder for the two groups to access the folder A ...
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iMac user can't access NFS mounted home directories with sudo
I've just reinstalled my iMac on my home network, and have mounted the user home directories via a NFS share (hosted on an Ubuntu server).
The problem I have is that when I use sudo, I get permission ...
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How to access a shared folder on Windows XP (advanced file share)
Information:
Server name: HSERVER (Windows XP SP3 Professional)
PC name: UPC (Windows 7 x64 SP1 Professional)
I have a folder, shared in Windows XP, with the advanced file sharing.
Permissions have ...
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How do I add permissions to my tomcat.sh?
I have created a tomcat.sh file so that I can start and stop tomcat via the terminal. I placed the file inside the /bin folder and performed chmod u+x on it to make it executable.
But then when I ...
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Should we disable dmesg for non-administrative users?
As I can find in Mac OS X
smarek:~ marekseberaold$ dmesg
Unable to obtain kernel buffer: Operation not permitted
usage: sudo dmesg
Is this really important, to disable access to dmesg output for ...
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How to get Cygwin Permissions in Windows 7
I had installed Cygwin, then later deleted my Windows 7 account and recreated the account with the same name. Now I am having trouble editing files in my Cygwin folder or creating new folders/files. ...
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How to set permissions for specific remote user in Windows 7?
I want to give permissions to a specific user on a remote machine on my local network. In the Select Users or Groups dialog the From This Location field is locked to my computer, when I click the ...
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Forcing group and permissions for created file inside folder?
I need that for the folder /var/www when my user testuser creates a file the permissions are g+rwx and the files belong to the group www-data
Any idea of how could I do that ?
Cheers.
EDIT:
I'm ...
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Show different directory icons in windows explorer depending on ownership
In the Windows file explorer - Is there a way to give a certain icon to directories which I own?
In Windows xp? In Windows 7?
Henrik
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CMD does and doesn't see this file?
I'm having a lot of problems with a particular file, LockupSystem.MDB . It doesn't help that there are lots of files with similar names.
I tried to dir to find the file but I couldn't find it. After ...
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Unable to access a script from root directory in Linux
I have a script in one of I my root directory:
/root/scripts/script1.sh
I wan't to call that script as another user (james1).
I did the following (as root user):
root@pc83$ CD scripts
root@pc83$ ...
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Transfer admin privileges to another account
I have one admin account that's empty, and my account which is admin but barely has any privileges at all (can't save anything in Finder, etc.).
Could I somehow transfer my empty account's privileges ...
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Editing files in /var/www
I know that the owner of the files in /var/www must be www-data to properly run by apache. But when i run the chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www command i can't the php files in my editor.
How can i ...
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Not able to login as sudo in Unix, “sudo : must be setuid root”
Today I did a crazy thing: I changed the permissions for all files/folders under /usr/bin/ as 777. Read, write and execute. Since then I am not able to login as sudo. It simply throws
sudo : must ...
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Unable to grant user access to directories in a share
I am running windows 2003. We have active directory in my organization. I have a user -- for example -- called Bob Smith (e-mail is bsmith@organization.com, again, made up).
Just for the record, ...
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How can I read a protected directory? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Take ownership of entire drive?
I've got a computer at home running Windows Vista Ultimate that recently "died". I don't know exactly what's wrong with it, but it gives ...
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Unable to change Windows file permissions [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
All folders are Read-Only (Windows)
My work computer runs Windows Vista, on a typical Windows network (not sure which version of Windows server). I am the owner of my ...
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gzip change file ownership
Here is a case i don't understand
i have a group 'bar', and this group has two users; 'foo' and 'bar'.
I have a test.txt file, 'foo' is the owner and 'bar' user only can read it.
However, if 'bar' ...
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Giving a user permission to the /home directory
I am using CentOS 5.x. I would like to give a user permission to write on the /home directory. Do I have to make it a sudoer? Or is there any other better way for that?
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Can any user write to a non-restricted child directory of a restricted parent directory?
I have a parent directory and a child directory like below.
Can anyone write to the child directory, although the parent restricts only to the owner?
drwxr-xr-x parent
drwxrwxrwx child
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Write-access denied to my Shared Documents when modification from the network is forbidden
I have a strange and annoying problem on my computer running XP Media Center 2005 SP2, with Simple File Sharing option enabled.
I was trying to prevent accidental alteration of files located in my ...
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chmod always gets “permission denied”
I keep a large number of directories and files on a Seagate NAS server, which I access from a Apple laptops running OS 10.5.8 and 10.6.8 variously. The server share has CIFS, FTP, and NFS enabled, and ...
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Troubles using apt-get install with home on NFS share
I am trying to install a bunch of packages using apt-get install on a VM running Debian 5.0.9 (Lenny). What makes this endeavor frustrating and difficult is the fact that my home directory on this ...
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Took Ownership of File/Folder, but Still Couldn't Alter It
Received a "folder access denied" warning after wanting to delete a folder so I needed to change permissions on a folder. Changed it to - for example: "username (username-PC\username)". That was the ...
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Why can't I delete a file where I have group write permissions on?
I have a file with the following permissions:
root:data, and chmod set to 775.
My normal user, let's call him boby, is in the data group.
Why can't I delete the file with the user boby?
...
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2answers
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Permissions for editing hosts file on Windows 7 Home Edition
I am running Windows 7 Home Edition on my laptop.
I also have an instance of Apache Server running and am trying to create a virtual directory. I have updated apache's vhost-httpd file and now need ...
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How do I elevate permissions from within a batch script in Windows 7 or 2008? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Batch file - start program with admin rights
I'm writing a batch script that requires administrator permissions to execute, so to start it I need to right-click and ...
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How do I administer /var/www?
I'm new to Linux and I'm trying to setup a small testing server inside of a VM running Ubuntu Server. I've found the /var/www folder and it should be the one where my Apache documents are stored, in ...
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Permissions issue serving websites from Dropbox using Apache on Lion
I'm trying to serve web pages from my Dropbox folder (at ~/Dropbox/Projects/MySite/) on Lion 1.7.2 using Apache. But all I get are 403 Forbidden errors.
I'm positive this has something to do with the ...
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Coming from Win XP to 7 and having new accessibility software problems
I just switched from Windows XP Pro SP3 (32bit) to Windows 7 Ultimate (32bit) on a new PC. Now, both the new onscreen keyboard and a utility for sending mouse clicks are being problematic.
The ...
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2answers
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Dropbear server allows users to see `/`
I installed dropbear on a embedded linux system, and I launch it by a
dropbear -r rsa_host_key
Everything works as expected, except that all users are able to "climb" outside of their home ...
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Windows XP local network sharing: 1GB .zip file is blocked; seeing “Access Denied” on copy?
I have two computers on our local network both running Windows XP. My main computer has local network sharing setup for \etc\install.
I have a folder with two 1GB .zip files, one of which I've had ...
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Deleting files belonging to others as root user
I know root has very strong permissions in Unix, but I was wondering if it can circumvent the file permission system.
I have a directory whose owner is not root, the directory has permissions ...
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Meaning of 000 mode bits for root user?
What is the meaning of 000 mode bits incase root user sets 000 for his own file?
I logged in as root user and removed all permissions from a file, still i can see the content of file.
#chmod 000 ...
