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Why is my dir not showing in ftp session?

I am new to linux so please have patience with me. I set up my centos 6.3 server on a virtual machine, installed many things including httpd and vsftpd. I changed the config to allow only users in the chroot_list and the other settings are as…
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I'm able to login via "psql" as "posgres" with any linux user - is this a security issue?

I used sudo su postgres and set up my database while logged in as the linux user postgres. After exiting to my normal shell, logged in as my non-root user, I can simply use psql -U postgres and then do whatever I want with any database, Postgres…
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Bind a fake service to a tcp port

A friend of mine gives me a (user) ssh access on an ec2-instance (ubuntu) that he's got. So, for reason that now I don't know, in the future I will have need of an open tcp port over the firewall to make listening some sort of service (like http or…
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allow client to change registry

How can I grant user to write to win7 registry. He is in domain win2008 R2. What I must change in group policy to allow access? He is trying to run some portable aplication and without this cant run it. Thanks a lot.
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setup apache www directory for multiple users over sftp

I have standard Ubuntu 16.04 droplet over digitalocean with LAMP stack. By default I have one user with root privileges (for admin use). I access any directory from root through ssh like with filezilla or netbeans. It all works fine as it should…
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Windows Server delete files in folder but no permision to delete folder itself

We have a problem, with permissions on shared folder for out employees. We have folder lets say Main, with multiple projects (files and folder inside), constantly added and removed. The problem is that it happend that some employee deleted the…
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Permissions/groups setup

I have setup up a Group that includes a few users (mygroup) then have set the owner of a web directory to be apache and the group to be mygroup. chown -R apache:mygroup /home/myweb Then I have set permissions to chmod -R 764 /home/myweb The idea…
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Grant user mkdir()

I have a php script where I use the function mkdir() but I get Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied How can I grant a user permission to this function? Apache/CentOS Update Here's the permission for the folder I'm trying to create…
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You don't currently have permission to access this folder. Windows 10 User Authentication Error Dialog Box

I recently was given Admin rights on my machine at work. Unfortunately, when I am going through the directory structure I kept getting this message box: If I hit continue, I need to change the security permissions and need to add my username in the…
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Freebsd shutdown privileges

I need to create a user and deny them permission to turn off the machine. DO SOMEONE KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE PERMISSIONS OF A NORMAL USER TO NOT ALLOW ME TO TURN OFF?
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Permissions and access security for a shared folder on a server

I need to set permissions to a folder for two people. I am not an administrator on the server but I have access to grant and remove permissions to folders. Not even the Server Admin should have access to that folder except for those two users. The…
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Dropbox writes files owned by root on server

Basically, we have Dropbox running on a server to keep some files synced. It works nicely, except when Dropbox has to write the files itself. It keeps writing them as root, and my webserver cannot serve these files later on. The current fix is a…
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How can I know which are my rights

On a fedora server, I have access to the cli. On that server I have a webapp which generates some pdf files using a php library through some ajax request. The problem is that one of the apache instances is blocked on 99%. I've tried with kill…
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Blocking another Win 2008 R2 admin from accesing some important folders

I have sold half my dedicated server to somebody but I dont want them accessing my web hosted Plesk files for my Wordpress website. As some of them are custom and confidential. I gave them local admin rights so the can install programs and as Power…
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