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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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Read/write permissions for /var/www?

I've got a Debian 8 server running where /var/www is owned by www-data and has the permissions drwxr-xr-x for both, files and subdirectories. Since I need to upload files via SFTP (public/private key authentication; password and non-encrypted FTP is…
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Delegate Specific rights to Helpdesk on AD

Domain Controller - Windows Server 2008 R2 standard I need to delegate only below task to helpdesk id for specific OU i.e 1) Creating User 2) and after creating that user, add them to specific Group Only i.e FT, BD, Domain Local Security Group only.…
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Accessing internally stored documents via hyperlinks in Websites on a DMZ server

We have a vendor-provided application running internally (LAN) on a Windows/MS-SQL 2012 server, providing access via IIS on the same box. The application is able to store attached documents - these are physically held in a share on this…
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User specific network IP/Port permissions for Open VPN

We are using Open VPN to give secure access to our remote team to access our EC2 instances hosted on AWS. Usually we create one open VPN account for each team and give that account to the team. By default each account has access to complete network…
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all apps open with admin permissions for all users

this is on a Virtual Machine running WIN2008 R2 Enterprise: When users login and open programs, the programs always open with elevated permissions and application's title bar has " (Administrator)" appended to the app title. If I click on properties…
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3 different folder share permission

Short and simple, There's a document in PC A that I want to share,I want PC B to be able to read/write,PC C only read,while PC D has no access at all.Sounds impossible but if there's a way please show me the rope.Thank You I've heard…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - Limit number of sessions created by a PARTICULAR user

I have a Windows 2008 R2 server which can be connected by my guest user through RDP to access a custom desktop application. I want to limit each user to be able to access the custom desktop application by maximum of 3 PC. Example: I have 2 guest…
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Synology - How to grant terminal access to a user without adding them to administrator group?

I am managing a Synology DS1813+ NAS server that holds data and files for a few dozen users. I was told by Synology support team that the only way to grant a user terminal access is by giving them full admin rights, which sounds outright unsafe to…
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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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Why can't Win7 user move files, instead it just copies them on Samba share?

I'm running a CentOS server with Samba. Connected on the LAN is one Windows 7 PC and the rest are Macs and Linux. The Macs don't have this problem, but on the Windows PC when a user attempts to move a file on the same share from one folder to…
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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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Permissions for rsync process to access files it doesn't own withtout running it as root

I want to use rsync to take automated backups from a remote webserver over ssh. The webserver is configured with suphp, so different sites have files with different users and groups. Unfortunately a web application generates some files without group…
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zabbix user unable to execute sudo mysqladmin ping

I am trying to check whether MySql is up by using a UserParameter in zabbix. UserParameter looks like this. UserParameter=mysql.ping,sudo mysqladmin ping | grep -c alive | wc -l When I execute mysqladmin ping | grep -c alive in the server, it is…
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Fix the "Stale file handle" fault as a regular user?

I have an ubuntu system which I'm controlling with commands as a regular user over ssh. On that machine I have an fstab entry for an NFS share. I can mount and unmount the folder because I have the user option set in the fstab entry. The problem is…
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