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Directory permissions for user account linux

I am setting up a shared folder between several users on a Amazon AMI (details at the bottom). I am trying to get the folder shared with one user in particular which isnt working. My idea was to create a user group called "repository" which I would…
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How to create a file root user can't delete

On Linux systems, I have a file I want to preserve from (even accidental) deletion. How can I create a file even the root user can't delete? For instance, by trying: # touch file # chmod 000 file # chown : file # rm file root…
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DCOM Security Settings not exported with secedit

I've got a problem with exporting the DCOM-settings. I call secedit /export /cfg C:\UserAccess\config.txt This should export the COM and DCOM settings. But I don't get all of the settings. For example Act as a part of the operatingsystem…
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Set up 'tomcat' non-root user in Tomcat 8

I've installed Tomcat 8 in Debian 8 and I need to harden the web server. I'm following the official Tomcat documentation guide and in the security considerations section recommends to create another user (named tomcat) and kick-off Tomcat process…
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Request Tracker 4.2.9 & Request Tracker 4.2.10

I'm trying to give different privileges configurations for several types of users (Everyone, Privileged, Non Privileged). I have tried it using Groups, Global configurations and Queues configurations cannot obtain the output I'm looking for: That…
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Why doesn't MS Windows System\LocalService have the "Log on as a service" right?

My developer is telling me that in order to run a service with the reduced privileges of the built-in account SYSTEM\LocalService, he needs to grant it the "log on as a service" right. How can this possibly be so? Half of the services in my Windows…
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Restrict reading access to a user for everything outside of a directory

I have set a users permission like this groupadd mygroup useradd -G mygroup ftp chown -R :mygroup /var/www chmod -R g+rw /var/www Now how can I restrict access for this user (or is it group?) to allow the user to not be able to read anything out of…
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Windows Server 2008 Run Printing With Specific Printer Always As Specific User

I have the follow setup: Windows Server 2008 SBS with an active spooler. I am using this server, besides other things, as a printing server. I've shared a lot of printers and I've added a new one today, but there are some problems. The printer is a…
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Two factor athentication on SSH server without root privileges

I want to set up two factor authentication on a server, on witch I don't have administrative account. The purpose of this is: I want to give some other people possibility to create SSH tunnels to this server (through my account) , but I do not want…
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Logrotate wildcard with many users and virtual hosts

I'm hosting multiple apache virtual hosts, with similar structure: - /var/www/ - domain - documentroot - logs I've thus modified rule in logrotate.d/apache2 to start with /var/log/apache2/*.log /var/www/*/logs/*.log { ... rule details…
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Migrate Users Directory on Windows Server 2008

I have a 137 GB c:\ drive on a Remote Desktop Services server that is full to the brink with user files. I have a 1.2TB e:\ drive that is totally empty. I need to move the c:\users directory from c:\ to e:\. As usual, the Microsoft article on this…
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how to let a user change network settings without admin rights, hostednetwork mode change, runas

I look forward to make it possible for ordinary users, without admin rights, so that they can switch the local wireless card to a hostednetwork (windows softAP mode). the netsh command here is clear netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow…
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Does LDAP allow User Permission at Application Level?

Following is the scenario in the picture, We have one server at back and five other servers (running 5+ applications). We are developing LDAP instead of basic Database authentication rule in which we have to set it manually. Obviously, We have…
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Apache Per-user web directories under user's own ID instead of www-data?

Talking about this feature http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/public_html.html Is there a way (HOW?) to have Apache take on (setuid) the ID of each "~user", instead of doing everything under the www-data userid? There is a related question…
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How to manage local groups on a remote machine?

I have a Windows Server 2008 machine that exists as part of a domain, but I have no permissions to modify Domain Users, Domain Groups, Group Policies, etc. I have a few file shares on this machine and I allow access to certain Domain Users. I do…
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