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git fetch insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects?

In my repo in my home directory (on an Ubuntu box) I did git fetch I unfortunately got an error about: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects There's a gazillion directories in .git/objects and all of…
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Accessing the /cache directory in the Android filesystem

How can I write a file in the /cache directory? I continue to get a FileNotFoundException (Permission denied). Someone told me about the android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM but i can't find it in the Android reference. Any help will be…
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How to know if a given user has read and/or write permissions for a given path

I should start by saying I consider myself a proficient user. But today I had the need to automate this and was stumped. Let's suppose I am root, and as such I'm able to traverse the whole filesystem but I can't run "sudo" nor "su". I have a given…
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Changing permissions with powershell doesn't propogate to children

When I set a new filesystemaccess rule with powershell and set-acl, I set the inheritance flags to propagate to children and leaf objects $acl.AddAccessRule((New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule( …
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Rsync does not properly set permissions on Windows folder

I'm using rsync on Windows 7 (in particular, cwrsync). I'm using a simple command as such: rsync -r --perms --delete /cygdrive/c/Users/Michael/Documents/Personal/ /cygdrive/c/Users/Michael/Documents/Personal_Backup/ The recursive copy works fine,…
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PHP: "failed to open stream: Permission denied"

I am getting some interesting results on my server when i try to access any Directory or File via some Function.I have set all my file & directory permissions to 777 and have changed the content owner to Apache but i still get error…
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C# WMI runs an exe on a remote PC that then runs another exe on the same PC that then calls Directory.CreateDirectory on a network path and fails

Using C# WMI I start an exe on another computer and this exe starts another exe using the C# Process class. The last exe tries to call Directory.CreateDirectory using a network path (aka \\\\comp1\d$\dir\). Directory.CreateDirectory throws this…
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Access To The Path ... Is Denied

Alright, I've seen tons of questions about this thing, but still, no one answers my question. In fact, each one of the questions I saw differs from the other, this access thing really seems to be hassling programmers. Please check out the…
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How to create a shared folder on a remote Windows machine using C#?

I want to manage shared folders on a remote machine from a C# application. Is there a way to do this using C#? I know WMI can do remote management but I haven't found a way to manage file and folder sharing.
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How to remove world-read/write permissions from android application's files and folders programmatically?

I'm trying to get a security certificate for my application and the evaluators told that I need to change the permission of my application folder to not world-read/write. I have googled the problem for days but I have not found any logical solution…
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SVN - User directory permissions

I'm using SVN (CollabNet Subversion Edge) and Tortoise SVN to manage a website being edited by multiple people. I'd like to limit access by some users to some directories (to prevent them seeing database credentials etc). They only require read…
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In Cocoa: How to set permission to read/write to a folder?

I am transforming an image size and then I'm saving the new file into the same directory where the original image file is. I can only set permission to the "images" directory. If my app needs to choose an image that is inside that directory it works…
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Linking to a network folder in ASP.NET

We have a problem allowing users on the same network to share links to shared network folders. Using ASP.NET, the code generated is as follows:
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IIS 7 Permissions: How to set the correct permissions for a directory?

I have added my site to IIS 7 on my local machine. It has added fine but I can't get the permissions sorted on the folder. I get the following error when trying to browse the site: HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot…
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C# save directory permissions

I've been trying to find a way to store permissions on a directory. I am currently using SetACL to help. If I could change ownership on directories/registry without it that would be preferred, but that's a different story. An example is this: Check…
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