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In computing, permissions (often called "privileges," "access rights" or just "rights") are rules associated with objects on a computer or network. Permissions determine which objects can access which objects, and to what extent.

In computing, permissions (often called "privileges," "access rights" or just "rights") are rules associated with objects on a computer or network. Permissions determine which objects can access which objects, and to what extent.

For example, file permissions are rules placed on a filesystem object defining which accounts are allowed to access the object, and what actions those accounts can take on the object, such as read, write and/or delete.

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What's a clean and secure way to let the user Apache do SSH cloning from same machine?

I have an Apache server that will host several sites and a private web interface that aims to automate the deployment of a site from a git SSH URL. Those git repos are on the same machine, hold by a local Gitlab instance and owned by root, so SSH is…
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Exchange 2013 - Grant delegation to security group?

One of our clients needs all users with a mailbox to be granted Full Access and Send on Behalf permissions to another shared mailbox. The easiest way to do this would be to give a security group the needed permissions, but Exchange 2013 is only…
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Microsoft MPI unable to connect (The RPC server is unavailable.)

I have two machines both with MS MPI 7.1 installed, one called SERVER and one called COMPUTE. The machines are set up on LAN in a simple windows workgroup (No DA), and both have an account with the same name and password. Both are running the…
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Apply permission from OU level to all child objects in AD?

We have a Windows 2008R2 server which runs Active Directory on it, I have written a C# application that will allow the IT staff to add new users to AD from it. I have no problems creating or updating users but when it comes time to add them to…
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Centos 7 - sshd sftp group permissions messed up after update

Centos recently updated to 7.3 and there's been problems with sshd sftp group permissions. I have one user that is chrooted to it's home directory, and that user is in group sftponly. Then i have the /var/www directory, which has 775 permissions and…
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Setting OS Level Permissions for Apache Web Root in Virtual Hosts with Continuous Integration

I am running into an issue with my Apache install whereby my PHP applications cannot create their log files due to permission denied when attempting to write into the web root. This is happening on my test server, which is a LAMP stack on Ubuntu…
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Running task with highest privileges causes files created by that task to be owned by the Administrators group

I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2. I have a task that runs every 30 minutes. Basically, it checks to see if an interface address has changed, updates a config file, and restarts an application. Because the config file is in C:\Program Files, the…
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Access denied, despite correct permissions

I tried using robocopy to mirror a folder to a new location; a few files and folders failed with "Access Denied," although I was using an user in the local admin group, which does have access to these files. (I double checked in the security tab.)…
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Server 2012 R2 Shared folder read permissions issue

We just migrated a spanned shared volume from a 2003 server to a 2012 Windows Server (migration took place by detaching vmdks from the old vm and attaching them to newer one). This did not effect permissions, I'm just saying it to explain the…
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Users have full control, but gets "you need permission.." errors

Windows Server 2016 Standard... department/group's users were getting read permission errors within their department folder, gave them full control on folder and subs, then they got write permissions error ("You require permission from…
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What permissions do I need to run SQL*Loader?

What permissions does a database user need to be able to run oracle's sql loader? For instance, since sql loader will disable indexes and triggers, does it need ALTER permissions for those items? This seems like a simple question, but I can't find…
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How to allow the output of only certain scripts to write to a directory?

I would like to allow a user to run any of a collection of scripts and write the output a designated directory but to not allow that designated directory to be written to with any other script or command for that user. The intent is to rsync that…
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Restrict group permissions on OS X networked home folders?

It was brought to my attention recently the user's home folders on our server have group read permissions. The subfolders within them - Documents, Movies, Pictures, etc. do not have group permissions, but any files and directories created at the top…
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Allow user to add Snap-In in Powershell on Windows Server 2012 RC2

I have a user that is used to run Powershell scripts, triggered by the Windows task scheduler on a Windows 2012RC2 server. The scripts use specific Snap-ins, which are added at the start of the script. The scripts fail and when I manually tried to…
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Forbid nginx or PHP-FCGI to create PHP files

I'm running an nginx web server on a Debian Wheezy system configured to run PHP through PHP-FCGI. Aside from setting permissions appropriately, for security reasons I'd like to forbid nginx and PHP to create files (or rename others accordingly) that…
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