Questions tagged [permissions]
Access and restrictions of files, documents, accounts, computers, etc.
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Only allow Read file permissions for Default Users group while not overriding the Read & Execute permissions for default Administrators group
I'm trying to prevent standard users from being able to execute a specific .exe file while still allowing administrators to execute it.
If I edit the file's security settings to Deny Read & ...
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Trying to add environment variables to zshrc but permission denied
So, I am new to mac
I trying to add environment variables to the zshrc file using
echo "export VARIABLE_NAME=VALUE">>~/.zshrc
But I am getting the error
zshrc: read only file system: /....
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bypass permission error in python while creating file in drive c://
how can bypass permission error while creating or writing data in python
def os_commands(): # permission error
string = '# ::2 localhostttttttttt'
with open(r'C:\...
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Windows 10 Photos app: how to fix "It looks like you don't have permission to save changes to this file"?
I created a video (.avi file) using CamStudio and saved it. Now I am trying to trim the video using Windows 10 Photos app. After I clicked "Save a copy" it says: "It looks like you don'...
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Can't set permissions for a user as admin to run a program?
Using windows 10. Have a program TOP Server 6, a UPC-OA program, that I want a user called Operator to be able to run. This user is part of the user group Users. Under the server_config.exe (the ...
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Unable to run icacls on multiple directories at one time in a batch file
I'm able to run pretty much any command multiple times in one batch file.
Example:
MD \\directory\local\Local\New1
MD \\directory\local\Local\New2
MD \\directory\local\Local\New3
MD \\directory\local\...
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DDclient is not able to open files owned by ddclient
I am trying to setup ddclient, but there seems to be a permission problem.
heimchen@localhost ~> ls -l /etc/ddclient.conf
-rw-------. 1 ddclient ddclient 8110 Jan 21 23:04 /etc/ddclient.conf
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How do I specify chmod 744 in Windows Powershell recursively?
Was going to comment on this question but I do not have the rep.
Is there a way to do this recursively?
I would like to give all privileges to any administrator user.
Nothing I do in the windows GUI ...
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Windows 11: Find and Grant read Permission for Unreadable files
I'm using WinDirStat to see how my hard drive is being used. I see 9.2 GB marked as <Unknown>. I'm assuming these are files which my Windows user can't read. I'm an administrator, and the hard ...
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Datadog Profile Permissions
Someone knows why the profile of one user is fully working on one Browser, but not in Chrome?
It's something related to tokens?
At the moment we clear the Cache several times, but no Effect.
Thanks!
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Compress entire disk with 7-Zip
I want to create a ZIP file with the contents of a NTFS formatted external hard drive. I do not have permissions for many of the files on the drive. I do not want to give myself permissions on the ...
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Restrict user access to only the system drive on Windows 10
I have a created a new user (standard account type) on my Windows 10 Pro machine and I need to limit the access of this user to C:/ (the system drive) only.
Any other existing partitions, or hard ...
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How can I get permission correct throughh GUI on Linux 20.04
How can I get permission correct through GUI on Linux 20.04 please?
Every morning at Backup time I see the dreaded panel.. Back Up Failure -Need permission.
I have 3 drives and I am trying to backup ...
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Urgent: Cannot run any program as administrator, gives file system error (-1073740791) on Windows 10
So a program I was running just crashed because it was out of memory, and I was like, that's weird, because the only other programs I have running is task manager and chrome. So I open resource ...
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How do I set the owner of a registry key using powershell?
I'm trying to modify the permissions of a registry key, however before I can do that I need to change the owner of that key.
Is it possible to do that using a powershell script? I've seen that you can ...
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Access denied when adding key to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE using bat file, adding to HKEY_CURRENT_USER works fine
I need to add a new registry key to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsRunTime\AllowedCOMCLSIDs.
I tried running a following bat script:
@echo off
REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...
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How to avoid permissions issues when using PHP to create folders and store files?
I have a Laravel project and part of the code creates folders and stores photos inside it.
Each user has his own folder, but if he did not upload anything yet then this folder does not exist.
Then the ...
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SFTP disconnects if directory owner is not root
I'm on Debian 11, using openssh-server 8.4, trying to build an sftp server for HTML uploads.
The upload destination directory is "/var/www/html" and the username is "sftp-user".
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How can I delete this file with odd permissions?
I accidentally created a file without delete permission.
"Everyone" has the following permissions: and "OWNER RIGHTS" has no permissions at all.
In string form, the security ...
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Permission denied to connect to my remote server via ssh on windows
with putty gen I generated a public and private key, and placed the private key on (C:\Users\toto\.ssh)
but when I try to connect I have (permission denied)
And here is the display on the terminal ...
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Authorize microphone for wildcard subdomain in Chrome?
How can I authorize a wildcard subdomain for microphone access? My company uses domains like chat.client1.companyname.com and talk.QA2.companyname.com for its videoconference software. It’s extremely ...
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Access denied when trying to open hosts file on Windows 10, even as administrator
I'm using windows 10 home. The hosts file in the etc folder initially opened when double clicked, but not sure what/or if i accidentally changed something, because now it says access denied, every ...
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Windows Sandbox Security "Access Denied"
I have an issue with Windows permissions and would greatly appreciate a workaround. When I create a Windows Sandbox, I can set a MappedFolder to be read/write as follows:
<MappedFolder>
<...
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Can't execute .jar files as non-admin user on Windows 10
I have multiple computers that I am the administrator for. They have non-admin accounts used by their daily users, and I use my admin privileges to execute programs for those users on occasion.
On one ...
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Windows program level permissions to write to a volume
I'm using a windows machine in AWS which has an FSX volume mounted. I'd like the volume to be read-only for all processes save for ones from a specific downloading application, which would have read ...
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How do I make a single program not ask for admin perms for another user?
Here's the situation: My son and I share the same computer, I have the admin account and he has a regular user account. He plays Genshin Impact and every time he wants to play he needs me to input my ...
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Differentiating between two programs (windows)
Is there any specific manner/way in which Windows differentiates between two programs? For instance, why can't I run two of the same programs at once? Or is there a way in which I could do this by ...
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cygwin /usr/bin/install cannot change permissions
When I run /usr/bin/install, I get permissions errors:
bifrost ~ 857# groups
None Local account and member of Administrators group tsysadm Administrators Users NETWORK Authenticated Users This ...
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Windows NFS share access from Linux unjoined domain computer with AD username using NIS
I have Linux clients using AD username/password using NIS and we have NIS Domain and UID and GID are already present in the AD. We used to have Windows 2003 NFS share and it used to work fine with ...
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FATAL ERROR: Received unexpected end-of-file from SFTP server
i have a sftp connection and it is working fine, this was the previous working setup:
#ADDED starts
Subsystem sftp internal-sftp
Match group sftpgroup
ChrootDirectory %h
X11Forwarding no
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Different behaviors for restricted access of folders in local drive and network shared drive
I have the following file structure on both my local drive and the network shared drive:
Parent Folder
Folder A
Folder B
File A
So, Folder A is a sub-directory of Parent Folder, and Folder B ...
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Windows 11 “object name c:\” permissions best security practices
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Should I change “advance security settings” c:\ [owner] from “everyone” to “system” or “admin” because each time I try to save a settings with select permissions for users/admins I’m ...
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How do I add "My Organization" to permissions of a secondary calendar in Outlook?
My main calendar has a default permission set up for "My Organization". This allows people to see my busy times or whatever I set it to. How do I add this blanket permission to all other ...
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On macOS Chrome is not running in the background and seems to shut off when all windows are closed
Chrome used to be active in the background when all windows are closed but the app is still running. It seems something (my settings, Chrome's settings, some update?) changed this behavior. Bitwarden ...
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Make folder visible to user but do not allow them to access its contents (icacls)
I have the following file structure:
Parent Folder
Folder A
Folder B
File A
So, Folder A is a sub-directory of Parent Folder, and Folder B and File A are sub-contents of Folder A.
I would ...
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Displaying services running that are in the context of SYSTEM privileges using the Windows command line
I have been trying to figure out how to put together a proper way of doing this but using findstr to try and match the output of the services running does not seem to be properly doing it.
I have ...
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How to correctly secure a .VHD file on a multiuser system?
I am trying to create a .VHD that is mounted on boot with Mount-DiskImage. I don't want users to mess with it, so I removed all permissions except SYSTEM and Administrators who have full access.
Now ...
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Cerberus FTP User cannot download file in subfolder
I am using Cerberus FTP 9.0 and have a user trying to download a file called "file.csv" in a subfolder. They're provisioned as a user with permissions and can download files from a subfolder ...
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New user gets permission denied
After creating a new user and granting sudo power to it, it gets permission denied.
I am the root, logging in as ubuntu@nameserver, when I try to login with the user i created to myself, I get ...
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Cannot ssh into server with correct password
Hello — I've suddenly stopped being able to ssh into a server I've been regularly accessing for years. There also weren't any notable changes/updates to my own computer between the time I could access ...
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ssh-agent is not keeping private key
Using an Ubuntu server, I have the following user:
uid=1001(githubactions) gid=1001(githubactions) groups=1001(githubactions),27(sudo),33(www-data),998(docker)
logged in as this user, I create a ssh ...
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How to change permissions for a file in Ubuntu?
I run the file ./schema.pg.sh with the command sudo ./schema.pg.sh in /sql directory. But the terminal throws an error:
could not change directory to "/sql": Permission denied
Script I am ...
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How to fix permission denied publickey on Windows10 Git Bash?
I'm unable to ssh into a machine that operates bots of my friend. He added my public ssh key, so i can join, but I get the permission denied privatkey error message.
I removed the actual ip
$ ssh -vT ...
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permissions of id_rsa.pub as 644 (-rw-r--r--) but the parent folder .ssh as 700 (drwx------)
I have a use case where my program needs to read the id_rsa.pub file under /root/.ssh folder.
The default permissions for id_rsa.pub are (-rw-r--r--) and for .ssh folder they are (drwx------)
This is ...
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Hard drive messed up after dual install of windows 10
I installed windows 10 on Hard Drive B (HDB). Then plugged in Hard Drive A (HDA) so I could copy over some files.
It prompted me that I needed admin access to access the files so I clicked continue.
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Deny cut and paste from a folder on file server
I have a folder and I need that users can not cut and paste file from this folder (and its subfolders) to other path in their computers.
Is there a solution to implement this?
thanks,
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The " access denied " message after I remove bitlocker
So I was trying to encrypt my drive with BitLocker but suddenly my house power went off. After I turned on my pc again my drive gave me an "access denied" error. I didn't know that BitLocker ...
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Does `chmod +x` make a file an executable or does it assign execute permission on the file?
Does chmod +x make a file an executable or does it assign execute permission on the file?
For example - chmod 111 will allow execute permission to user, group, everyone else.
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How do I apply the acl permissions for ALL files (those in sub-directories too) without changing folder permissions?
Need to give new user acl permissions on linux server without changing existing chmod permissions. New user doesn't belong to any group and doesn't own files. User needs to be able to write and read ...
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Issue with add Multiple user account and SSH key using Bash script
As per our requirement we provided our devloper group: devs:r-x to /var/log/httpd directory.
What is the best way to create a user account (in my case Dev User) in a Group using bash scrip, with the ...
