Questions tagged [privileges]
In computing, privilege is defined as the delegation of authority over a computer system. A privilege is a permission to perform an action.
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how can I get higer privilages on linux [closed]
I would like to get higher privilages on my linux computer (I dont have any admin privilages and cant use sudo/su).I would like to get privileges of a root and privileges of file owner.
how can I do ...
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Initialize MySQL database as non-root and run SQL server for testing
I want to do some MySQL-specific testing and need to run a fresh MySQL database as non-root user. I am using Debian Linux and expect one could start the mysql_install_db and other commands as normal ...
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Synergy installer is unable to start service on Windows 10
When I try to install Synergy on Windows 10, it gives me this error: "Service 'Synergy' (Synergy) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services."
Synergy and ...
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How to decide what apps can be run from the 'Guest account'?
Let's say I want people to only be able to run VLC, Wordpad and Internet Explorer/Edge when they login to my PC with the guest account (not password protected). How do I go about this?
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What does gate mean in the Multics operating system?
I read Multics operating system. In the segment descriptor word (book) there is one part for number of gates for the segment. What does gate mean? I know the process can enter a higher-privileged ring ...
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Win7: Unable to select administrator option or run programs as administrator even though current account is admin
I am trying to set the account type as administrator but it is grayed out.
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Geogebra cannot run without administrator's privilege
I have been using Geogebra for windows in my windows 7 laptops for years. Usually administrator's privilege is not necessary in order to start a geogebra.
However, recently, I found Geogebra would ...
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How much can user actions be limited?
I need to use a server (Linux, Ubuntu) 'S' as a bridge between clients and other local servers 'LSs' which offer a series of services such as DB access via web or applications that must run on them (...
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Windows 8.1 requires elevated rights for common tasks
I've moved from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 (fresh install, different machines) and I'm having some issues with user permissions on my Windows 8.1 machine.
It seems to require Administrator rights for ...
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Starting a Program with Powershell Remoting
Using Windows Powershell, this opens notepad.
notepad.exe
But this, which is meant to remote into a virtual machine and open notepad there, does not. Instead, the process starts but the GUI is ...
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Windows 8 PRO - prevent user from closing application
I would like to run an application (in background [system tray] or just a normal windows application it does not matter) on the normal user account on Windows 7/8 PRO - but I would like to prevent the ...
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How to run a program normally with admin privilleges not as a background process using Task Scheduler?
I have looked through other questions in superuser and online and they all seem to suggest using Task Scheduler for what I want to do. Simply, I want to run my program at STARTUP or Boot with admin ...
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Windows Vista shows error "A specified privilege does not exist" when running any administrative tool/process
I'm troubleshooting a PC running Windows Vista Ultimate Version 6.0. When I run programs such as regedit, msconfig, or do things like try to disable Microsoft Security Essentials's Real-time ...
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Windows application rights
Can an application with admin rights give admin rights to another one on Windows?
I tried to imagine an answer but I came up with two scenarios:
Windows asked us if we are willing to give rights ...
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Elevating applications on restricted account
I have got a bunch of applications that don't quite follows Windows application writing guidelines and don't behave well on restricted accounts. There are also a few regular apps and services. ...
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Mount Samba share without root access
I have access to a Linux machine, but not root access. I can access a Samba share through smbclient. I'd like to be able to mount this share so I can access it from within Matlab. Normally, if I ...
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A seemingly impossible to terminate process
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit. Avast simply does not want to be stopped. Even SYSTEM does not kill it. I'm using these tools to run CMD as SYSTEM: http://reboot.pro/files/file/237-runassystem-and-...
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as a domain member, 'run with administrative privileges' always asks for hostname
Since we run Windows 7-clients in our windows-server domain I have a specific use case that has become more inconvenient:
On the client-site, being logged-on as an user with restricted rights and ...
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Change user's privileges Windows 7
How can I change user privileges in Windows 7 Ultimate?
I need that a User can only execute installed software, write in his own Documents Folder and cannot install other programs.
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Powershell has started running as administrator
Something unusually has happened recently on my machine: every time I start powershell, it starts with Admin privileges by default. It used to be that it would start just as my user unless I right-...
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Which Window privilege is needed for the `runas` command?
I have a local Windows account and I want to make it impossible to login to the machine as this user – both locally and using remote desktop. Now I have set these two "deny" privileges for the account:...
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Installing software from user account as admin without having to log off log in
Is there a way with a GPO to allow an administrator to install a software from a standard user account?
Let say I want to install Itunes from a standard account. I would like Windows 7 to pop an ...
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Linux setcap and changes made to the executable
A program that I am developing uses raw sockets. For security reasons to run a program that uses raw sockets, the program has to be run under a user with effective ID 0 (root?) or have the capability: ...
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How to bring back folder privileges, that I revoked in registry with regedit?
I revoked read and write privileges for my user (but not for admin) in my registry for a folder. I tried to open the folder and it said, that I don't have these priveleges. Ерут I opened regedit.exe ...
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Run a program without administrative privileges in Windows 7 [duplicate]
My account in Windows 7 is an administrator account. When I open the Run box (WinKey + R), I am warned, "This task will be created with administrative privileges."
Is there any way to run programs as ...
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lost all my admin privileges in windows 7 [duplicate]
Today I suddenly encountered a problem, the last thing I remember i did before the problem occurred was that I was installing a game from the Steam, the game asked to install Nvidea Physx, after that, ...
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Drop privileges in Pass (unix password store tool)
Pass is a Unix command line password manager http://www.passwordstore.org/
To read any stored password one has to input the master-password, it then allows to read/write any password. However this ...
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Limiting software installation to specific user(s)
Is there a way to limit software installation to one particular user or to a specific set of users only? In some software installers, this is available as an option, but in most cases the software ...
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How to fix my local administrator?
Starting a few days ago, I am facing a very weird issue here on my Windows 8.1 workstation. I am unable to start programs or applications that require administrator privileges. This makes my PC ...
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Obtain administrators rights on Windows 7 when there is no administrator account [closed]
I've recently obtain a Windows 7 laptop.
It is managed via active-directory and I normally login using my ad username / password.
For personal uses, I'd like to obtain Administrator privileges. My ...
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Permissions, Rights & Privileges [closed]
I only have the privileges of a normal user on a Windows environment (XP). I would like to ask the following questions.
Are any/all attempts to access a log file (text) logged somewhere?
Are any ...
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Is it acceptable to have a privileged account with a shard password on multiple systems?
I have a scanning tool, Nexpose, that requires a user account to have sudo privileges. Our Linux systems at this point do not use Kerberos, LDAP, or anything centralized. Most of these systems run ...
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How do I secure a privileged account that requires access to multiple systems?
I have a user account with a few privileges that is used to run security scans. What is the best practice to secure the systems when a scan is not running? My thought was to have the accounts be ...
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Grant net_privaddr privileges on a AWS server
On a AWS Server, I need to grant the "net_privaddr" privilege to an user. I tried with this command:
/usr/sbin/usermod -K defaultpriv=basic,net_privaddr USER
But on the AWS server, the K option does ...
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mklink in batch file keep returning insufisent permission
I made a code to execute an simbolic link between my Music folder and the music stored in my other hard drive
@ECHO OFF
SET /p bn=Band Name :
md "%E:\Music\%bn%"
SET /p dl=Album Name :
mklink /d "E:\...
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Is it impossible to run powershell scripts that I wrote locally without admin privileges even if the scripts themselves dont require admin rights?
Im a standard user without admin privileges on my windows 7 box. I wrote a powershell script that doesn't require admin privileges (it downloads data from yahoo finance and saves it as a CSV file):
$...
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Changing privilege rights on Arch Linux for a particular program
I am quite new to linux and have had issues surrounding every program that I install. Basically, anything that is placed outside of my home directory requires a sudo call prior to opening/executing. I ...
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How to create an admin account from non-admin privileges
I want to create an Administrator account from a non-admin account (such as guest) in Windows 7.
Is it possible?
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Command Prompt - Accessing "Access is Denied" folder
Note: I'm on a Windows computer using command prompt.
A network exists where there is a single drive (let's call it C:) and there is a folder for every different user account inside of this drive. ...
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Prevent Power Users install or uninstall softwares in Windows 7
Does anyone know if it's possible to create a user account on windows 7 with custom installation/uninstallation permissions.
We have an application that requires the user to be set to Power User / ...
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Copy user accounts
In Win7 is there a way to easily copy a set of user accounts from one system to the other?
I am having 15 laptops and I need to set up >50 users and gropus on each of them all having different ...
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How do I end this process?
I want to end this process below :
But whenever I try, I get an error :
Is there a way to do this ?
The process SAPISSVC.EXE is actually an antivirus process.
I want to close it because ...
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Windows Store not recognizing Admin privileges
I'm trying to upgrade a new Dell laptop with Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Using the default user logon created at initial boot, trying to upgrade to 8.1 via the Windows Store, I get the following error:
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creating a new user account with the least privileges in windows 7
i'm just wondering how can i create a normal user account which can login without a password and can access only to the main partition usually named (C:) supposing that we have another partition named ...
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Doesn't the SeBackupPrivilege give me right to use the backup tool in windows 7?
I have a regular user account on Windows 7 home premium that I wanted to give the user rights to perform backups, using the backup and restore tool.
I tried
ntrights +r SeBackupPrivilege –u "...
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How to automatically change permissions for files copied to a directory?
I would like to automate changing permissions for files copied to a directory. For example, any files copied to folder X should have mode 755, and any files copied to folder Y should have mode 700.
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Binary in /usr/bin is invisible to user?
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On a CentOS system, as root user, which rsync gives me the following output:
/usr/bin/rsync
The permissions of that binary are as follows:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 415000 31. Okt 09:36 ...
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OpenVPN client without administrator rights on Win7
My parents use a Win7 laptop. I have set it so that they are not administrators of the device, only I am. I have installed OpenVPN for them to access the home network resources when they are out. The ...
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How do I tell if zsh is running with privileges?
In my .zshrc, I have commands that launch instances of various program, like Mozilla Firefox and Evolution. I obviously do not want to launch them as root so I want to check whether I am root before I ...
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Can non-admin user add himself administrator privileges?
Whenever I reboot Windows 7, I find that my domain user, under which I login and work, is not any more part of local Administrators group (or any groups included into Administrators group or domain ...