Questions tagged [privileges]

This tag is for questions relating to the general topic of privileges, without reference to any specific operating system or application.

This tag is for questions relating to the general topic of privileges, without reference to any specific operating system or application.

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Jenkins failed to start - Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services

When installing Jenkins (LTS) on windows 10 via the installer, after choosing the JDK folder - an error pops when the service is trying to start. The error reads: "Jenkins failed to start - Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system…
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No privileges on wamp server phpmyadmin

I installed WAMP on Windows 8, and I'm having problems with MySQL privileges in phpMyAdmin. Here, you can see the screenshot: As you can see, there is no privileges tab, and I can't a create new database.
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Detect if Java application was run as a Windows admin

I have a Java application. Is there anyway I can tell if the process was run with admin privileges, on Windows 7.
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Phpmyadmin doesn't show "privileges" tab

I have WAMP installed on Windows, and I can't seem to get the "privileges" tab to show in PhpMyAdmin no matter what. Reading other forum discussions and articles, I have done the following: Checked to make sure that I'm logged in as…
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Providing MySQL users with just the minimum privileges

For a web application, when creating the user which will connect to the MySQL database, you have the choice of privileges. Assuming that the only actions intended to be done by that user are SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, it seems to make sense to…
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xampp mac os x "this application requires admin privileges"

When I try to start xampp (manager-osx) on Mac OS X Yosemeti 10.10, I get this error : this application requires admin privileges It doesn't ask any password like it used to.
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C++: Run program as administrator

Some programs are automatically asking for administrator rights when you run them. These programs are marked with a little shield in the bottom right corner: Now I'm wondering how I could accomplish this in C++. Is there a function for this or do…
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Getting ORA-01031: insufficient privileges while querying a table instead of ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

When I'm querying a table in schema C from schema A, I'm getting ORA-01031: insufficient privileges and when I'm querying the same table from schema B, I'm getting ORA-00942: table or view does not exist. On the table neither of the schemas are…
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Restricted PostgreSQL permissions for web app

Goal Create a database with three users and restrict their privileges (I'm just thinking out loud, so my user separation is also open to correction): Superuser - this user allows for the very initial provisioning of the database. Create the…
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List grants and privileges for a materialized view in PostgreSQL

I need to determine what privileges are currently granted for some materialized views in my database. The query to do this for a table or standard view is pretty straight forward: SELECT grantee, string_agg(privilege_type, ', ') AS privileges FROM…
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Programmatically getting UID and GID from username in Unix?

I'm trying to use setuid() and setgid() to set the respective id's of a program to drop privileges down from root, but to use them I need to know the uid and gid of the user I want to change to. Is there a system call to do this? I don't want to…
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Postgres 9.1 GRANT does not work

I try to grant privileges like that: zielony=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE baza_tag to strona_user; GRANT But nothing happends: usename | usesysid | usecreatedb | usesuper | usecatupd | userepl | passwd | valuntil | useconfig…
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Elevator.exe in Android Studio update

During Android Studio update, it was noticed that elevator.exe (Verified publisher: JetBrains s.r.o) was installed on my computer. What is this application for and why is it required for Android Studio? P.S - I am aware that Android Studio is…
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Accessing another user's table within an Oracle Stored Procedure

I'm writing a stored procedure to copy data from one user's table to another schema. Basically, it is a series of INSERT .. SELECT statements such as this: INSERT INTO GESCHAEFTE SELECT * FROM TURAT03.GESCHAEFTE WHERE kong_nr = 1234; This…
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mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1045, "Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)")

I've started working with django, and here is the error on 'runserver' after setting up 'DATABASES' in settings.py mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1045, "Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)") My settings.py portion…
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