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Intention of www-data

So I have been wondering what the true purpose of www-data user/group is. Should I include other programmers into this group that will be editing the files in the website root? Should all of the documents be owned by www-data?
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Run service under AD account

I am trying to run a custom service (made in visual studio) on a networked applications server that has been joined to a domain. I would like the service to run under a very specific account (Service_ServiceName) for security reasons. I have created…
Jake Cozart
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IIS7 setting user permissions for network drive directory

I have IIS7 server (where i running some PHP) on network drive (drive 1), when im trying acces another network drive (drive 2), where are need to acces PDF files with pdftotext.exe. On drive 1 i also have a virtual/link directory which points on…
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Correct way to setup linux company share folder with usable permissions

I've just started working for a small company that has a globally shared folder run from an Ubuntu file server (Raid 5, etc) shared by Samba. The workstations (Centos) are all fstab setup to mount this samba share in their root file system ->…
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How to work on local VM Load Balanced Web Sites

So, I've got my LB all set squared away and running well (all ubuntu servers, sitting on a ubuntu host machine). Everything works... syncing files, loading the sites, backups, etc... They are a total of 6 VM's on my local server (4 web, 1 lb, 1…
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Users Denied Write Access Win 2008 Server

I recently transferred files from a Windows server 2003 (servold) to Windows server 2008 r2 (servnew) The new server has two physical drives. User files were stored on d:\ d:\ was shared (right click on drive | sharing | advanced sharing) as…
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Block user network access except back to address of ssh client

On a linux server, how can I set up permissions so that a certain group of users are allowed to log in via ssh, but all network connections by their processes are blocked unless the connection is back to the ssh client address. For example, I want…
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SSH user minimum permissions

I am working on an application which sshes into servers and gathers information about the server such as disk and memory usage. Another task it needs to do is get file size information of certain files which may be anywhere on the server. Because of…
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group permissions on directory being ignored for user

It seems that there is a Linux user (on an Ubuntu 12.04.4 server) who is unable to access a shared directory, even though that user belongs to the group which owns the directory. Here is an example session: $ whoami username $ cd…
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Hiding the active Administrator account in Windows 8

I am trying to use the integrated "Administrator" account in Windows 8. The problem is that I do not want this account to appear on the Welcome Screen for login. I tried to hide the account by using the method described here. The problem is that the…
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PDO Connection Error: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (13)

Currently I am setting up a server to run a web site built on Symfony framework (1.4 version). After tuning Apache2 to work with needed folders, and setting proper permissions on every chunk of path required (755 for folders, 644 for files), PHP is…
Jared Rox
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Make folder writable by multiple users via ACL

Is it possible to set the rights of a folder and all its files in such a way that multiple defined users can add, modify and remove files within? I was hoping to be able to do that via ACLs and I got it working that multiple users can change files,…
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What permission is needed to use a service account to remote run powershell on a server?

I have a internal webapplication With a list of all the servers in our network. I want to be able to run a few PowerShell commands on the servers to gather usefull information. Invoke-WMIMethod and Invoke-Command. I only need permissions to read…
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Write permissions to multiple users on same directory in ProFTPD

I am quite new to Webmin and ProFTPD and I am trying to give multiple users access on a public_html, both users are in same group: siteowner:x:504:504::/home/thepclincom secuser.thepnlincom:x:510:504::/home/thepclincom/public_html Site's ownership…
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Windows: application has rights to folder to which user that run it does not

I am developing desktop application for Windows and I was wondering if it is possible to configure folder permissions in such way that following scenario would work: Non-admin user runs my application. The application reads/writes files to some…
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