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Linux user cannot read or edit outside their home directory

I was wondering how to setup user accounts on linux where the user cannot read or edit outside their home directory. Thanks, Ben
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How to restrict user to a particular folder in CentOS 6?

I will need to create users so developers can log in and clone/pull/push changes/repositories from a github like platform. I've managed to add a user (using the root) to this CentOS machine; I now have this line in /etc/passwd:…
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FTP user without access to other folders

I'm a newbie with FTP/User permissions. I have a domain and a dedicated server. Lets say my domain is www.mysite.com All my files are inside httpd folder. I'd like to create a folder for a new user inside httpd, for example /newuser. The user…
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How do I allow users to have access to only a specific subset of folders on my Ubuntu server?

I need freelancers to be able to download and upload files to some of my websites on my Ubuntu server, but not all. How do I set it up so that each freelancer is a user who has access to only the sites that they should be able to access and nothing…
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Limit login on machines for users

Im wondering whats the best practice, we currently have a singel domain. And what we need is Guest accounts that should be able to logon course room and randndom work stations at time ( If they need to logon to a work station that will require work…
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What permissions should I give these files?

I have some files that nobody needs read access to and apache needs read and write access to. Should I do chown nobody.apache file chmod 460 file or chown apache.nobody file chmod 640 file or perhaps something else?
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Dovecot - different authentification mechanisms for different users

How can I make several groups of users and tune dovecot in a such way, that one group can use plain text auth (for example), second - APOP, third - MD5-CRYPT, etc? Thanks in advance.
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Adding existing user to existing group and providing permissions

can someone shed some light on this issue I've set up and installed vsftpd. Created a user ftp-user and created a home directory, so they can log in, and just have access to drop their files here. >> sudo useradd -d /home/ftp/ftp-user -m…
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Prevent PHP from including files from other sites directories

Currently I am running nginx 1.0.11 and PHP-FPM. Each site has it's own user/group and has their home directory in /srv/www/.... I have the PHP-FPM pools set to run as the sites' user and group on separate ports (9001 for site1, 9002 for site2...).…
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How to give permission to an account to reboot server?

I use centOS 5.7 and I need an account I have on the server to be able to reboot the server. How do I do this? Should I maybe be worried about security issues with this? The reason I need it...I want to reboot the server every 6 or 12…
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Permissions of httpd apache2 and running certain php commands

I ran some recursive linux command that changed the permissions to all my website files.. all files are now like -rwxrwxrwx and all dictionaries are. drwxrwxrwx I don't know if that has anything to do with my problem really.. As I've changed that…
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Service generated content interaction with PHP

I have a daemonized service that generates content at /usr/share/service/content I need this content to be accessible from PHP. The service runs under a user named _service which belongs to the same group as the one running PHP (www-data). Both…
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Debian + Nginx + Unicorn Rails 3 project permissions

Is there a security risk in running a web server like Unicorn as root? The Nginx master process runs as root, the Nginx worker runs as the limited www-data user, but I can't set another user like www-data to run the Unicorn master/workers without…
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Group Policy Design and Delegation

Background: We have an Active Directory environment that is in production and we continue to move more machines and servers into it. We do not have direct access to the user objects to move them around like you would normally be able to do. Instead,…
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How do I grant the privilege to add users to a specific Active Directory group?

I want give a user privileges to add users to a specific Active Directory group in my domain. How can I do this?
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