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Cannot edit files owned by 'nobody'?

I created a new user named bob, and gave it its own /home/ folder on my server so I can SSH into that instead of root. I had added bob into the nogroup group as I had read somewhere (or poorly interpreted it) as allowing me to edit nobody's files,…
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Installing packages to home directory with package manager

I have an account on a remote GNU+Linux system that I use via SSH, I have no root access to the machine. Sometimes I need more software or newer versions than provided by system administrators, so currently I install everything I need by hand in…
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Apache 2.2 User Permissions / Public access folder

website.com:8080 is set to require a password. However, I need website.com:8080/public to be accessible to anyone. I found this example with Apache 2.3 which is exactly what I want, but I'm using 2.2 and AuthType None is not supported.
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Automatically add user to newly created database

I created a user with reading rights on all the database created by an application in order to run reports. The problem is that this application create a new database for every new projects. Is there a way for this user to automatically get reading…
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How to convert a elevated command prompt to a regular command prompt?

I have UAC disabled on my system, and all command prompts start as elevated ("Administrator: ..."). Even if I start cmd.exe from the Start Menu, it's still elevated. Is there a way to run a non-elevated command prompt somehow? I need that so that I…
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Periodically audit file permissions for mistaken leaks

I'm looking for a way to periodically check a file system tree for permissions that have been set incorrectly. The context is: this is in an academic compute environment, with students, researchers and overworked sysadmins the focus is not on…
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RoboCopy Access Denied, even with SeBackupPrivilege

My account is a member of the Backup Operators group on the domain and I run PowerShell in elevated admin mode. I checked my privileges with whoami /priv and saw SeBackupPrivilege listed (disabled but nothing weird so far). Still, when I run the…
Hamza Ben
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Allow user/group to start/stop/restart windows service

I have 4 services. All of them are run by an individual user. All 4 users are part of a group I created (ServiceWorkers) which has the Log on as a service user rights assigned. Each service needs to restart now and then. The problem is, that the…
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Since 10 years, did I setup my web server wrong?

Before story: We had a vserver with a domain around year 2004-2007 with apache. My father was owner and I was learning little bit from his friend (he was doing that stuff). I learned how to use linux via putty. I think we used there a system which…
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How to create a very limited linux user

I need a user in my linux machine to execute some commands in .bash_profile. But I don't want this user can have access to sftp, ftp and any other protocols. Also any commands can't be executed except some in .bash_profile. So I want to create a…
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kernel tunables for non privileged user

How can i permit non privileged user to set kernel tunables within specific limit. For instance to let user set hugepages up to 40 sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=40
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GCP AppEngine Permissions

I need to grant a GCP project user permissions so he is able to run cron tasks from the app engine console. I've been looking around and could not find suitable permissions for that. Any tip??
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Glusterfs support for user namespaces

I have a gluster volume mounted on a host machine and tried to run a namespaced docker container with a bind mount from the gluster mount on the host. It seems that the user namespacing is not handled correct for the glusterfs bind mount. My problem…
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Modify new user home directory permissions with powershell

I am needing assistance with a script. What I am trying to accomplish is when new users are created in ADUC and their profile path(home folder) is created, it gives the users "Full Control". I am wanting to change that to Modify permissions. My…
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How to allow AD group to access and manage IIS sites and pools?

i manage actually a domain with around 34 IIS servers running webapplications. I would like to get a better user right management in my domain. For the moment, my users allowed to manage IIS websites and pools are members of the Domain Admins group…
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