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Questions tagged [authorization]

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What is the difference between authentication and authorization?

Basic question from a novice: What is the difference between authentication and authorization?
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How do you force an update to a user's group membership in Windows 7?

I am writing a web application that uses .NET Windows Authentication and relies on a user's group membership to Authorize them to various areas of the website. Right now I'm on a dev machine that IS NOT part of a domain and is not using AD, instead…
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Kerberos Authentication for workstations not on domain

I have a base understanding of how Kerberos works in an Active Directory environment and the methods it uses to authenticate users and workstations onto the network, but my question is.. since Kerberos relies on issuing a security token that the end…
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Linux Central Authentication/Authorization Methods

I have a small but growing network of Linux servers. Ideally I'd like a central place to control User Access, change passwords, etc... I've read a lot about LDAP servers, but I'm still confused about choosing the best authentication method. Is…
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Simple, centralized user management on a small LAN - NIS or LDAP?

I'm setting up a small LAN for my team. It will, for all intents and purposes, not be connected to any external networks. I would like it to have centralized control of user accounts (at least, I think I'd like that; I'm also considering using…
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How to debug Samba authorization (authentication) procedure

I'm running a small home network linux-based server which acts as an internet router, torrent client and file server. I have problems connecting Windows clients to server Samba shares ('user name or password is invalid'). How can I enable logging of…
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Admin password of MariaDb doesn't seem to work

I've just installed MariaDb on a fresh Ubuntu Gnome and ran mysql_secure_installation afterwards where I set a decent admin password, removed the anonymous user etc. Afterwards I realized some strange behavior regarding the admin password: If I try…
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Mixing Subversion "SVNParentPath" and per-repository configurations?

Given a typical Subversion/Apache configuration using SVNParentPath, with repositories hosted under /svn/ like this: DAV svn SVNParentPath /srv/source/svn/repos SVNReposName "Subversion Repository" …
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Connection error to mysql database

My application needs to do quite frequent connects to a mysql database on another machine. However I get frequent errors on connection; I can usually eventually connect but after many retries. The error message I get is: Mysql.mysql(): Couldn't…
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Join ActiveDirectory (Win 2k8R2) to OpenDirectory(Snow Leopard)

The vast majority of questions and so on regarding the interoperability of Active and Open directories involves getting Mac clients to see an AD and auth against it. What we'd like to do is get a Windows 7 workstation to auth completely against Open…
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How to allow a user in Nagios to view the status of some servers, but not disable/enable anything?

How to allow a user in Nagios to view the status of some servers, but not disable/enable anything?
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Started task in z/OS lacks RACF privileges

I wish to test a JDBC server implementation running under z/OS. The usual approach would be to define a JCL procedure and run this as a started task. The started task requires a user ID under which it would run. The JDBC jars are placed in a ZFS…
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Passing Authorization Basic Headers Along in Proxy

I am currently trying to get a reverse/forward proxy to pass along the authorization headers to the target server. How would I go abou this? I have already looked at the below sources, and one of the comments states that this only works for…
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Samba authentication and LDAP

I have an OpenLDAP server that I use for authentication and authorization for various services. All users are of object type inetOrgPerson and my groups are groupOfNames. Now I want to configure Samba to authenticate against LDAP as well (with group…
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Multi-user bzr server

I'm currently investigating whether it is possible to serve bzr in a setup similar to what gitolite does for git. This means a single unix account, with different users managed via their ssh public keys. I'd be happy to integrate this with gitolite,…
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