Access and restrictions of files, documents, accounts, computers, etc.
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How to set permissions to log files generated after permissions are set
In my shell script I have to access all the log files in the directory. I have set chmod -R 777 to the directory. From this all the log files that are currently available in this directory are set ...
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How to change file/folder ftp permission in windows 8 using file explorer?
I noticed when I tied to change permission for a folder using file explorer as an ftp client that i couldn't find it in Windows 8. In Windows 7 and earlier versions it was possible by just right ...
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How can I use Oracle's virtualbox listpartitions command on Windows 7
I'm using Oracle's VirtualBox (4.2.6r82870) on Windows 7 and I'm trying to list the partitions on my uSD card which is inserted in the computer as drive "E". I pulled open the Window's Computer ...
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How to create new directory in Netatalk 3.x (AFP) share with group write permission
I have 2 users :
userA
userB
both in the group :
studio
They are using the same shared folder workdir
if userA creates a new folder inside workdir, it looks like :
drwxr-sr-x+ 2 userA ...
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How can I prevent an executable from restarting my computer?
Question is simple: I have an executable on my computer (running windows 7 Professional) that wants to restart my pc to install updates every single day. Unfortunately I can't remove it entirely, so ...
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How to sync/update NIS group and user information from other machine
We have around 10 Linux Ubuntu server machines using NIS/NFS.
I recently noticed that a machine showed a weird numbered user name, not real user name. And this probably makes some problems on a ...
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Windows shell not starting for any user?
Admin accounts boot up just fine. And adding a user to the admin group fixes it until they are moved back to just being a user.
This happens on new accounts that are created.
Im able to bring up ...
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1answer
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Allow access from internal files, but denying access externally
I am trying to figure out how to deny access of a font on a website from external access.
This means the user should be denied if they point their browser to the url
While still allowing the css ...
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What is the permissions difference in Windows XP/7/8 between a local admin user and a domain user in the local Administrators group?
There are a few questions that are similar here, but I'm inspired to dig a little more deeply into the internals of how applications check for administrative privileges and how they can be affected by ...
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Permissions denied on a folder the user owns (ubuntu linux)
I've created a subdirectory and assigned permissions will full r/w/x access granted to the user 'vvanglers':
drwxrwxr-x 4 vvanglers team 4096 Feb 18 20:48 vvanglers
However, when I su or ssh at ...
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“chown -R root /” how screwed am I?
I accidentally performed the command chown -R root / while trying to change the permissions to the public folder of my rails app. I believed this changed the permissions to all my folders on the / ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu user ftp access
Having real issues with ftp access to my cloud VPS ubuntu solution.
I have tried both vsftpd and pure-ftpd. I found that both were limited. I have now tried to focus on vsftpd as it is well received.
...
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1answer
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Unable to build Awstats report - permission denied on awstats.pl
I just installed a fresh copy of Awstats 7.1 on my server running CentOS 6.3 and nginx. When I try to run this command to generate the report:
/usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl ...
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1answer
157 views
Windows Service Can't Access Files on 'Windows XP Home' Home Network
Note: I've been able to duplicate my problem by using another WinXp computers instead of a USB drive plugged into my router. Same exact problem. So, the bottom line is that I can access (and modify) ...
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1answer
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Need secure solution to get the size of a directory with PHP
I have a vmail directory manage by postfix with the permissions set like this:
user: vmail
group: vmail
permission 700
I need to get the size of that directory with PHP. To do this, I'm using ...
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2answers
423 views
How to fix broken AppData permissions in Windows 8
Not knowing that this is a bad mistake — or maybe a massive bug in Windows 8 — I shared my complete user folder using Home Group on Windows 8 Pro x64. This changed the permissions for ...
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Can't use external JavaScript file in a different directory, only when using WAMP
This is a follow up to this question. In WAMP I've got the www directory containing the directories alpha and bravo. A JavaScript file is in alpha and a HTML file that includes the JavaScript is in ...
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Can't modify user permissions on a folder
I am trying to give another user write access to a network folder on Windows. When I try to make any changes to the folder permissions, I get an error message:
An error occurred while applying ...
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1answer
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How to run AutoCAD LT 2002 as a non-Administrator user?
When I launch AutoCAD LT 2002 as a non-Administrator user, it displays the error message You do not have sufficient rights to run AutoCAD LT and then quits.
I also tried running it as Administrator ...
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1answer
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Understanding chmod and setfacl
I have a file that I think I should be able to execute. It shows these permissions with ls -lah:
-rw-rwxr--+ foo foo-group
And these with getfacl myfile:
# file: app/console
# owner: foo
# group: ...
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1answer
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symlinks for admin users on Windows
On Windows you can create symlinks
either if you start the programm, you want to create a symlink in (e.g. cmd), as Administrator.
or if you give your user/usergroup the permission to create ...
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How to prevent an user from chaging the icon size (strech icon) on GNOME 2?
The OS is Debian 6 and I want some specific user to not be able to stretch the icons in the Desktop. This user already has limited permissions and it is not in the sudoers file (except from some ...
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Windows 7: Is there a way to move C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds folder?
Using display fusion there's an option to change my logon background to whatever my desktop background is.
The problem is that whenever my background switches I get a UAC prompt. I understand that ...
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1answer
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Assigning limited permissions for a temporary domain user to access network systems
I have set up a small Server 2008 R2 domain network at home so I can learn and practice administering it.
Lets say I want to create a temporary user account to allow an auditor access to all files on ...
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difference between chmod 777 and chmod 007
What is the difference between chmod 777 and chmod 007? if 'others' means everyone, doesn't that strongly suggest the truth that chmod 777 = chmod 007?
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Permissions … how to make a folder undeleteable?
On FreeNAS (FreeBSD) ... I'm trying to make a folder 'undeleteable'.
I logged in as root. I created a folder called test and chmod it to 700 (rwx------). Owner is root, group is wheel.
Then I log in ...
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1answer
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Unable to do passwordless login to FreeNAS
I'm trying to use this command to allow me passwordless login to a FreeNAS box:
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@server.com 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'
But I get:
...
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3answers
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Allowing only owner to edit files windows/ubuntu
I am not sure if this is answered elsewhere or it is too obvious but I need to have a folder that I create with a new user(admin) both on windows and ubuntu (wherever it is possible - preferably both) ...
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1answer
442 views
Why can I not access files on another computer on my network?
I have set up the workgroup all to the same word, for this I'll replace it with SUPERUSER. When I try to access files from another computer which is also on SUPERUSER, a pop up comes up and says:
...
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1answer
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Control rsync user and group on reciever side
I have an rsync command to backup a directory from a remote server to a local NAS on my LAN, mounted on my server.
I am using con to invoke the command
rsync --rsh='ssh -pxxx' -rultxz ...
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2answers
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Can't access directory over SSH
I am accessing a MyBook server using SSH by means of public-private keys.
I have a wierd problem where i am unable to access certain folders that i should logically have access to.
I have a ...
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1answer
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“android” command run only with sudo on Mac OS
When I run android command I take following exception in bash, but it's everything ok with sudo.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at ...
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3answers
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Shared hosting, stop user deleting .html file?
Hi guys I have set up a small shared hosting set up for friends.
I have set the file chmod permissions to
chmod 711 /home
chmod 711 /home/testuser
chmod 755 /home/testuser/public_html
chmod o+r ...
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3answers
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how to encrypt an entire folder and continue moving plain files to the folder?
We have a folder on our server where daily files comes in from a remote machine. Everyday we check if the files came in and if so - we download them to our local machine. There are around 20 daily ...
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1answer
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Default chown for new files | ubuntu 12.10
My www files is located at ~/www, and I change the owners of the files to myuser:www-data.
However, when I create new file by the user, it doesn't get the group (www-data) by his owner.
How can I ...
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2answers
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Deny execution permission, allow read permission
Is it possible (if so, how?) to deny execution permission for a single file, for a user (or group), but keep read and write permissions?
When I deny "Read & Execute" in the interface, "Read" is ...
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2answers
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Accidentally blocked myself out of my private UNIX directory
I used the following command to see who had permission to my directory.
fs la
I then wanted to block someone out, so I used the command (and accidentally used my username instead of the person I ...
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1answer
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using sftp and having www file access at the same time
Im getting confused about permissions and sftp access in ubuntu.
I have a user who has access to the www folder :
<username>:www-data
I have set the following in sshd_config:
Subsystem ...
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1answer
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What is the difference between the special permission and execution permission
I'm new to unix , i have tried to find the difference between permissions of execute permission and special permissions . For instance , the "su" command has the permissions
-rws-r-xr-x
Under that ...
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3answers
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SSH Permission denied on Correct Password Authentication
I could successfully SSH into my machine yesterday with the exact same credentials I am using today. The machine is running Centos 6.3. But now for some reason it is giving me permission denied. Here ...
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localhost/username returns Forbidden on OS X 10.8
I have on my Mac (OS X 10.8), Apache 2.2.22 and PHP 5.4 configured.
I'm now trying to get http://localhost/username working.
I've symlinked /Library/WebServer/Documents/username to /Users/username/www ...
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Remote desktop and wmi
For some reason, after performing a system restore, when I try to execute a certain script while logged on using remote desktop, or by connecting to the computer via WMI, the script starts but then it ...
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3answers
310 views
Execute a command with root permissions as normal user
I want to execute a command as if I am my normal user, but I want to have root certain permissions. In particular, I have created a phyiscal VirtualBox drive that I want to use as a normal user.
I ...
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0answers
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Why are some of my files blocked?
I've been sent here from Wordpress Stackexchange to see if my question belongs here.
My Dropbox account lately has been experiencing problems. It says that it cant sync a JPG file because the access ...
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1answer
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How can I prevent an admin user from bypassing K9 Web Protection
Problem: It is super easy to bypass K9 Web Protection by renaming a file in the Windows\System32 directory in Windows 7.
Question: How do I prevent an admin user from renaming said file in said ...
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Write protect single file from admin in Windows 7
I know this question has to have been asked before, but it's really difficult to find the answer to the specific problem I have: I would like to write protect a single file from the admin user in ...
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NFS Share in Windows - Drives mapped as folders
I am relatively new to Linux (Ubuntu Server 12.0.4.1), but I am learning quickly. I currently have a Windows 2008 R2 file server set up (not ready yet to change that to Linux, but have plans). The ...
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1answer
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Share folder read permissions for everyone and ntfs write for local group?
Been trying something that seemed easy but apparently isn't.
I have a shared folder in a domain network. I set share permissions for everyone as read only. No other permissions are set.
Then I tab ...
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Grant permission to manage another users processes
I have userA and userB who start processes:
userA@server:~$ ./some_command.sh &
[1] 30889
I then want userC to be able to manage those processes (suspending, resuming, terminating, and ...
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1answer
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How to allow access to internal website in IIS7
I developed my first website for a simple internal application using Webmatrix in a Windows 2008 Server R2 machine.
I'm able to open the site with a browser in the same machine as it is running, but ...
