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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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Why does changing data directory for PostgreSQL 9.5 in Server 2008 lead to "directory does not exist"?

I'm trying to migrate a PostgreSQL 9.5 database to a larger disk E on a Windows 2008 Server. After stopping the service I initially tried copying the the data folder to the new disk and then changed the PostgreSQL Service's executable path using sc…
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Folder Permisson for cache folders Centos7 and nginx 1.10

I have a server on which I install Centos 7.2 and nginx 1.10. I would like zo host Magento What I have done: root user is disabled newuser is admin user for doing stuffs with sudo I have a new nginx server block enabled set domain new block root…
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CentOS Default ACLs on Existing File System Objects

Is there a way to have existing file system objects inherit newly set default ACL settings of their parent directories? The reason I need to do this is that I have an user who connect via SFTP to my server. They are able to change directories in…
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sudo-like privilege management for docker containers

I want to allow a Docker container to invoke some actions on another container without granting it full privileges. An example would be a Docker container which does log rotation and reloads the services afterwards, or a control server which should…
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Samba is ignoring file and directory create permissions

I am trying to create a SAMBA share but as usual I get a bunch of permissions problems. Here is my setup: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP security = user map to guest = bad user guest account = nobody #logging…
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Using IIS With Visual Web Developer

I am trying to launch a web service from Visual Web Developer using IIS. When I open the .asmx file in a web browser, I get an error that I do not have permission to access that page. I am using windows automatic authentication in SQL Server…
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Make user or group own port

In some situations a web application will talk to clients through a reverse proxy (e.g. Apache with mod_proxy) where the reverse proxy is listening on port 80 and the web application is listening on a port greater than 1023 (because root owns ports…
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Share and NTFS Permissions on a File Server

I have a folder A and inside two files B and C What I need is that the user "XPTO" as access to read B and write on C. Usually I give the permission "list folder contents" on folder and then give a write access on the file for the user and then I…
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Centos 6 - Allow sudo composer self-update for user without password

I'm trying to allow my wheel group user to run sudo composer self-update without a prompt for a password for my deploy script. I have added the bottom line below to my /etc/sudoers file: ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands %wheel …
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IMAP server can't read (open) mails using fetchmail, procmail & dovecot

I'm trying to setup a mail server ! Everything seems to be ok (after some loooong days) but when I tried to read mail with IMAP server : Apr 18 17:38:48 sd-84941 dovecot: imap(dlp): Error: open(/data/maildir/dlp/cur/1460993401.13028_0.sd-84941:2,)…
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Running a Python script which saves files to server with cgi and apache2 version 2.4

I have a python script (python.py) located in the /var/www/html/Python folder. The script saves some images to another directory (/var/www/html/Data) I have the -x file permission on the python.py script and -rw permission for all on the files where…
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Wordpress plugin update/install failure

I've been reading all sorts of information all over the web on this topic. I just installed Wordpress on my Fedora 22 box, x64. The installation went perfectly, I'm able to access the site, but cannot update plugins at all. I've seen two different…
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What is the proper way to grant stored proc execute permissions for a SQL Server user?

I have just moved a SQL Server 2000 DB over to SQL Server 2005 Express (which will be upgraded soon) and in the process I am cleaning up some bad habits from the previous owner. For one, the old web app used the "sa" account to access the DB. …
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PHP exec() over UNC path on Windows

My environment is Windows Server 2012 R2, IIS 8, Active Directory, and a file share. IIS, AD, and the file share are all separate VMs. I have a website, www.example.com, set up in IIS. The application pool identity is set up as the AD user…
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Force windows to prompt authentication to shared folder/disable "remember my credentials"

Is there a way to force windows to prompt for credentials to a shared folder? We are in a domain environment with 50+ PCs. What I need is to have a shared folder on our server that has specific user permissions. I need these users to be able to…
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