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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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SQL Server Agent job run as: permissions

I have a number of SQL Server Agent jobs running CmdExec statements. They are simple jobs that call simple batch files. They are run with a Run As: Proxy account, that has permissions to run as a CmdExec proxy, with a relevant linked Credential…
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running pg_dump with the context of a user

$ whomi admin $ pg_dump (it works....) $ sudo pg_dump doesn't work. (permission denied) $ sudo -u admin pg_dump still doesn't work (permission denied). why is that? I need to run pg_dump from the context of being the user "www-data". How can I…
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Limited Permissions to a domain user on AD Server

How to assign permissions to a domanin user such that he can only change active directry users password & he can be able to join or remove Client computers to the domain. He should have admin rights on all (Client computers)
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What permssion is needed to read AD attributes?

I have created some custom attributes for users inside of Active Directory and have also created a basic account to use to login to AD so it can read these attributes, as well as the standard ones in AD. I have assigned the user to "Domain Users"…
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SQL Server domain-group based login

I have a couple clustered SQL server instances, 2 on 2014 and 1 on 2008r2. In all 3 cases, I've created a SQL login (server principal) for a domain group, say DOMAIN\SqlAdmins. I grant it the 'sysadmin' fixed server role, for example. (Don't give me…
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Recursive Sudo Privileges

I am in the process of setting up specialized sudo for our first line support team. I would like to authorized them to delete anything within /var/log/. The command below however only applies to files directly in /var/log/ not its subdirectories. If…
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How to change permissions on folders, but not files?

Is there a concise linux command (that will work on OSX) to change permissions on folders and all of their contents, but leave files in the current directory untouched? For example: /parent/folder1 <-change permissions /parent/folder2 …
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Windows service control commands for non administrator user

we have two environments, staging and production, both running a windows service. we use a build server to deploy a certain windows service via MSDeploy part of the build steps is running a CMD script that checks, if the service is running and when…
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Using UNC Share with IIS ASP.NET 4.6.1

I have some ASP.NET 4.6.2 web sites that I want to run from a UNC share. The reason why I am doing this is to implement IIS Shared Config but as a first step I just want the nodes to run properly. Each server (the multiple web servers and the server…
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Change EUID of running process

On Linux how can I change EUID of running process from command line (provided I have root access)? Thanks
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Permissions denied to directory owned by a user

I have a similar problem to that posted here, in that a user is unable to access the contents of a directory they own. A quick search shows quite a few other similar questions, however the problem always seems to be the execute bit not being set on…
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Microsoft VBScript Runtime error: Permission denied code 800A0046

I am testing a VBScript and it was working fine earlier. Wanted to try with a different file input, but all of a sudden I'm getting Microsoft VBScript Runtime error: Permission denied code 800A0046. The script was working just fine a few hours ago?…
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Samba server permissions not work

I have Samba server installed on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS I set up some smb shares for everyone. For example this is a part of my smb.conf: [logs] path = /srv01/logs browsable = yes read only = no force create mask = 0777 …
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Samba Security - Set permissions for anyone write on share (root and others)

I have a server with Samba4. I need to configure the permissions for anybody can write on the share, but at the moment only the root users in the clients can write. How can i fix this? My smb.conf [global] server string = SiteSintram netbios name =…
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Why does a new application pool identity have write access?

I am running IIS 8.5 with PHP (various versions) via FastCGI. Impersonation is on in the PHP config for FastCGI. The app pool is set to use the App Pool Identity. In fact, if I actually specifically deny access to write to a file, it behaves…
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