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Root user on Ubuntu 11.10 AMI?

I am new to linux, so this may be a very simple question. I have created a modified ami using the ubuntu 11.10 as a starting point. All of the tutorials I have found say that to save an instance you must be the root user, but I have only been able…
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How to set adequate permissions to a scheduled task for a service controller query?

I'm a programmer, but the problem encountered has stepped beyond the code and into the system administrator realm, at least that is what I think at this time. I will only use one bit of code to show where exactly the problem is encountered and I…
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How do I set my web server to run as a specific user other than 'nobody'?

This is for an unremarkable LAMP server running Ubuntu. The reason I want to do this is because I want a php script to be able to run a linux command via the exec() function and the command I want to run needs permission that 'nobody' does not…
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Have a script which adds Security on share to "Everyone"

[Old post] I have a shared folder on the network which is shared with "Everyone" 'Read' & 'Read & Execute' privileges. A few people have 'Write' access and sometimes somehow when they either copy, move or save a document inside that folder the…
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Why user logons to Windows always look like the first logon

I have Windows Server 2003 and all the users have windows XP with administrative privileges in local group setting, so I want to reduce them to normal users. i.e. Currently normal user in active directory and administrator on his/her local setting…
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Domain user added locally as administrator, having permission issues

Windows 7, new computer. User's domain account is added to the Administrator group, but when running certain apps (for example, editing the hosts file using Notepad or running command prompt...) is giving the user permission issues. This has…
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How do you give execute permissions to Apache2 user and NOT to everyone else?

I have Ubuntu Server running and I am setting up a separate directory as a cgi-bin. I have the directory ready and I changed the file for the site. However, to get it to work, I need to change the permissions of the Python script I have in the…
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How do I create a guest ftp user and give access to specific sub-folder with SSH?

I just got a virtual dedicated server at GoDaddy. I got the Simple Control Panel. There doesn't seem to be a way to create a guest ftp user through this control panel and I was told it must be created through SSH. I have a program called Putty which…
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User in group with r/w access does not actually get the read/write anything

I added my user to the www-data group. I chmodded a certain directory to 774 (-R, recursively) so only the owner and the group can change something. Yet my user can't even access it. What am I missing? Here's my ls -alh output: drwxrwxr-- 13…
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Can A layer-4 firewall block TCP traffic from a specific user on a multi-user system?

Layer 4 firewall is a device that can look at all protocol headers up to the transport layer and not the headers above that layer.
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Active Directory Folder Effective Permissions of all users

I know that is easy to get the effective permissions of one group or user over a folder, but I want to know if it is possible to get the effective permissions for all users on my shared folder. There is any tool to do that?
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can I restrict access to root to only connected instance?

It will mean that if I am connected another user that will try to authenticate as root will get an error.
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Using apt-get in Linux EC2 Micro Instance

I am trying to install apt on my Linux EC2 Micro Instance. I am trying to do as it is mentioned in the first answer of this question. But when I try to edit and save the sources.list file, I am getting the following error. "/etc/apt/sources.list"…
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Allow PHP script to modify all sites on a server

I have a bunch of sites on a standard HostGator Dedicated server. I would like to run PHP scripts that can access and make changes (add, update, delete files and directories) to the file structure of every single site on this server. What would I…
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What are the minimum permissions a McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Scheduled Scan needs to run?

A fairly simple one. We have a server, we should be doing a scheduled scan. The scan uses a scheduled task which requires a user account, what permissions should that account have? We don't fancy leaving it to run as an administrator. EDIT: I have…
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