Questions tagged [permissions]

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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Using XCACLS to set permissions with long filenames

We need to set permissions on users' directories on a Windows 2000 Server. This happens regularly enough and they must also be set in the order below or the backups crap out. This is the basic script: XCACLS foldername /g Administrators:OF /T /C /Y …
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rndc delzone {zonename} : permission denied

System is: Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 (jessie) BIND 9.9.5-9+deb8u3-Debian (Extended Support Version) named.conf.options: options { directory "/var/cache/bind"; key-directory "/etc/bind/keys"; // If there is a firewall between you and…
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Server Application Unavailable - Could not load file or assembly System.Web, Access is denied

I'm a developer trying to set up a virtual directory for a WCF web service on a Windows Server 2003 (32 bit) machine and I keep on getting "Server Application Unavailable" with the following logged in the event log: Message: Could not load file or…
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Best practice for users to scp .war files to tomcat /webapps folder?

I have a tomcat 8 installation on an ubuntu 14 server. I want to give write access to the /opt/tomcat/webapps folder to a few users so they can scp .war files directly there from their local machines. Is there any best practice for this? Thanks
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Office 365 and JavaMail

I trying to send email from server using JavaMail and smtp protocol. The email is name@mydomain.com. JavaMail is throwing the exception above and this message "Client does not have permissions to send as this sender ". Can someone tell me what to…
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Permissions for EC2 created by Elastic Beanstalk connecting to external RDS

I am quite new to Elastic Beanstalk and not very proficient with server administration, but I need to set up a Django project on Elastic Beanstalk connecting to external RDS MySQL database. I have created a separate RDS MySQL database and I can…
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How to allow connections in zimbra/mail client?

I installed a Zimbra server into CentOS 6, enter the admin panel via web HTTPS over port 7071, the problem is I can not access the web mail client (port 445), I can only access via localhost. I reviewed this port from bash: [root@host etc]# netstat…
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How to auto-run batch file as specific user (not scheduled task, not a duplicate)

I am an enterprise admin (Sr. Network Engineer), but my team does not manage Active Directory, so I am a little unfamiliar with policies and what is required to do what I am trying to achieve, and even the AD admins are failing me when it comes to…
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NFS export for non-root users

I need non-root users to be able to export folders over NFS on a shared system. There are a lot of users, several hundred, who may potentially log into the system. All of them should be able to export certain stuff in their home folder via NFS. Is…
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Php-fpm corrupts my socket permission on startup

I've installed Apache2.2 with FastCgi module, and PHP-fpm on a Centos server. I configure FastCgi with an external server using the socket option: FastCgiExternalServer /var/www/cgi-bin/test/php.fcgi -socket /var/run/php5-fpm.sock -pass-header…
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Shared group directory with individual user files

I have a mounted NFS partition in which a specific group, say nfsgroup, has rwx for the directory (call it nfsdir). If my user brian is a member of nfsgroup and creates a file in nfsdir, then I chgrp it to say brian (my own group), other users in…
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MySQL system account unable to write to logs on CentOS 6.7

I have a CentOS 6.7 server with MySQL 5.1.73 installed. I am trying to enable replication which fails because "mysqld_safe" cannot write to "/var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.index"; even though the directory exists and permissions as "drw-r-----". If I "su…
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Installation problems with CouchDB 1.6 on Ubuntu 15.10

After using CouchDB 1.4 on Ubuntu 14.04, I recently tried to start fresh with 15.10 and the main couchdb package. It installed couchdb 1.6 which was a welcome change, but the ubuntu installation documentation on the couch site hasn't been…
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Forcing/inheriting permissions on NFS share

I'm trying to NFS share a directory on a CentOS machine to several OS X machines with Apache Directory Studio. Multiple users are going to access it and they are in the same group. I've been able to mount it but I can't get the permissions right. I…
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New server block returns a 403 error

I recently switched my CentOS 7 machine from Apache to nginx, and I am running into some issues getting my machine properly functioning. I recently installed a new server block into the system with the following configuration: server { listen …