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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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Anonymous user with proftp on linux

I am trying to setup an anonymous user account on our server to enable people to download technical manuals for our products etc. and I would like this to be as secure as possible! I was just wondering if anyone knew a series of steps that will…
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Anonymous user with proftpd on fedora

I am trying to setup an anonymous user account on our server to enable people to downlaod technical manuals for our products etc. and I would like this to be as secure as possible! I was just wondering if anyone knew a series of steps that will…
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Mailbox permissions in Exchange 2007 driving me nuts

I'm currently in an environment with a Windows Server 2003 machine running AD and Exchange Server 2007. We have all our users, and a couple of general mailboxes (for example, "customer service") in AD and Exchange. All my users have added these…
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NFS client not ignoring UIDs on NFS map

I have six machines, one NFS server and five clients. Three clients (running Ubuntu 14.04) work just fine. The other two, running 12.04, are running into permissions errors. On the mapped client machine, ls -l /home/ returns: drwxr-xr-x 22 testuser…
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AWS IAM User unable to create Elastic Beanstalk environment. Missing permissions

Permissions option is missing from user sub-accounts. How do I enable it for sub accounts? In the screenshot below I am logged in on the main account.
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PHP exec() Returns 127 When Trying To Run Any Command

I'm an intermediate Linux user (CentOS, some Debian) who is transitioning to FreeBSD (10). Permissions have always been somewhat confusing to me. I've set up a server with PHP-FPM (5.6) and Nginx (1.8.0). They run as the 'www' user. Any command I…
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Modify "Policy" without Group Policy: Best Practice?

I have a need to address some policy settings on a number of machines that are not on a domain. Specifically, we are dealing with a technology conference lab, built with loaner machines from various vendors, and I would like to lock down certain UI…
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allow all users to read/write any files/folders on 2nd drive regardless of who created it in linux

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I've got a mount point called /files that is owned by root, the group is plugdev and I've given the group write permission. I used some of the information in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive to…
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Active Directory User Creation and Group Membership modification privileges

I have a group of users, lets call them DOMAIN\MyPowerUsers; I would like to give everyone in this group the abbility to create, edit, and delete users in the DOMAIN, and to modifiy group membership of users in the domain. Is this possible?
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How to apply different directory and file permissions recursively by one command

Let's assume that I have this folder structure: |-Home |-Subdir |-Subsubdir |-Subdir Each directory includes a bunch of files. Now I want to apply the following permissions: All directories - 750 All files in these directories - 644 Is…
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emails to root - CentOS and Postfix permssion error on maildir file

I'm trying to setup a new mail relay server to send email out from internal servers only over TLS. I've followed this guide http://www.krizna.com/centos/setup-mail-server-centos-7/ to Step 10. I only need to send email not receive. Anyways I keep…
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Why can't I cd to a root owned folder, as a member of the root group?

I verified I'm a member of root: user_me@host1:~$ sudo useradd -G root user_me useradd: user 'user_me' already exists However, I can't cd to /root/testing from my user: user_me@host1:~$ cd /root/testing -bash: cd: /root/testing: Permission…
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How to deal with Upstart “terminated with status 1”?

I have a very simple script on Ubuntu 14.04 upstart (/etc/init/myscript.conf) description "Something" author "me" start on filesystem and started networking stop on shutdown respawn respawn limit 5 60 # give up restart after 5 respawns in 60…
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Giving multiple users access to a shared mailbox in Exchange 2010 not working like I want it to

So If I make a shared mailbox, right-click on it, and 'Manage Full-Access Permissions'. I click 'Add', and procede to search and add a user. I do this two or three more times with different users I want to be able to access this mailbox before…
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Coldfusion Server with MS SQL 2008 R2 - Database permissions

I have a Coldfusion server with a lot of websites and an MS SQL Server 2008 R2 connected with the webserver. The issue is that all datasources are connected to SQL with the sa which is wrong. So I tried to create a new user for each website on the…
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