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Creating an exception for needing admin credentials to install software

An employee at my company uses the service WebEx on a regular basis, and every time someone uses the service, they have to temporarily install their plugin in order for it to work. Every time that plugin needs to be downloaded, the user is asked for…
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osx server permission removal

I manage a Mac Mini server OS X 10.8.5 Server 2.2.2. used as a file share for assigned partners to upload video files to their respective folder at the very lowest level of the file system (accessed using Filezilla). These users permissions need to…
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MongoDB starting gets terminating

I am installing the mongodb with the default configurations, and that gets started normally, but when I changed the dbpath value to point to different position it started giving me the exceptions, can some one help me and tell me where I am doing…
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Limit Exec Commands for Linux Users

How can I limit the scope of executable commands a linux user can run? For example, I only want user to be able to run the ls command and nothing else. If tried, for example to run cat, linux would throw an error or return null. I've looked into…
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User Permission Issues Within Domain

I have user that is in Domain Admins group. I am trying to access folder that has full permissions for Domain Admins group but for some reason I get "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" error, I can Continue but when I do that…
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Mount a Symlink Directory to Document Root for Deployment

Trying to establish a secure multiuser environment with limited user permissions and automated deployment. The example has been made simple to express the idea. Docroot: /var/www/site/staging/current/public Deploy user site-staging:staging Home…
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NTFS permissions: clarifications sought

After reading the following page to update myself on how NTFS file, folder, and share permissions work, I am left with a few questions and hope to receive some answers on this group: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727008.aspx The page…
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What is a difference between a member of "Users" group and not a member of any group on Windows?

What is a difference between a member of "Users" group and not a member of any group on Windows Domain? I searched and just didn't find anything relevant at all.
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Running programs with 'pre-allowed' admin rights Windows

I'm working in a high security corporate environment on a Windows 8 machine. I don't have administrator privileges, but am a developer. I won't go into the absurdity of this. The short is; there are certain programs I need admin rights for. Starting…
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How to give the Apache group write access to log files, and an FTP user read-only access

Ubuntu 11.10 server I have a user bob who's home directory is /home/sites/bob. In that there are directories public_html and logs. Apache runs under the www-data user. bob's primary group is www-data. Apache updates the access.log and error.log in…
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As root, how do I create a limited FTP user who only has read access to a few folders?

I have a website and I have a super admin FTP access. Now, I am in need to share the FTP credentials with others and I wish to give them FTP access in such a way that they could be able to access only few folders and not all the folders. How can I…
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Additional groups for apache user

When configuring the user/group that apache runs under, does the process run only with permissions of the specified group, or also with those of which the user is a member? For example, if Apache runs under apache:apache, and I do usermod -aG…
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Trying to get a local copy of my Linodes disk image but getting permission denied when logging in via SSH

I'm following this guide so I can download a copy of the disk image as I want to migrate to another host. When I get to the stage where this command needs to be entered: ssh root@123.45.67.89 "dd if=/dev/xvda " | dd…
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prevent files modification from users: is this method safe?

I was wondering today if there was a way to enforce a non root user to have a specific authorized_keys file (among other sensible files). I came up with this solution. Disable StrictModes in sshd_config (got to manoeuvre with file ownership and…
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I have two domains on my Linux Server. How to do Cross domain uploading?

I have two domains DomainA.com , DomainB.com on my Linux Server , each with separate space. I am using PHP and MySQL for both my websites. I have a page on DomainA.com from where users upload files. But I need to store the files uploaded from…
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