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How to set the owner of a file to SYSTEM?
Code-wise, this is pretty straightforward:
var fs = IO.File.GetAccessControl(path);
fs.SetOwner(new NTAccount("NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM"));
IO.File.SetAccessControl(path, fs);
This throws an exception that says "The security identifier is not allowed…
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C# Winform: Automatically Login to a report server using Webbrowser control
I want to access an asp.net report server using a windows forms application (specifically the Web Browser Control).
I am already able to load the page (via button click), however, the web browser still prompts me to enter the username and password…
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How to secure IIS Web Server
We have a web application which consists of an IIS web server which is on the internet, and a database server, which IIS accesses over a VPN link.
The problem we have is that we need to store the connectstring somewhere (which obviously can't be in…
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How to avoid principal propagation from worker-thread to GUI-thread
We have a Windows Application with a worker-thread who needs to update GUI. We uses BeginInvoke to do it asynchronously. Our problem, demonstrated in the example below, is that the Principal is propagated to GUI-thread wich we want to avoid, couse…
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IIS account environment
IIS 7.0+ uses a concept of so-called virtual accounts to identify application pools (IIS AppPool\apppoolname). Do those accounts have profiles and can be local environment variables set for them? How?
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Windows detect certificate as Root Certificate Authority
Question: How to get Windows to detect a Certificate as appropriate for installation in the "Trusted Root Certificate Authorities"?
Background:
I am building an internal site and would like the users to be able to download the server's root…
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RegSetValueEx returns "Access is denied", even though regedit allows the same user to edit this value
Our VB6 legacy application calls RegSetValueEx to set a registry value. This registry value can be easily set using regedit. However, when our application tries to set it, RegSetValueEx returns 5 - Access Is Denied.
We use the same code to write to…
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Accessing Windows Security through Visual Basic
I've created a code that copies the folder contents from PC1(pc for user) to PC2(pc for server). I used Active Directory to create accounts for the access of PC2's server
I have the ff code to transfer from PC1 to PC2:
Public Class Form1
Private…
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ASP.NET/SQL Server Application: Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'
I have a legacy app that I'm doing some maintenance on. It is built with Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET Web Forms, SQL Server and .NET 3.5. The application uses Forms Authentication backed by the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.
The computers live in…
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Property changes log for Windows Server service
How can I define who/what made changes on Windows Service property? Are there any log files for such activties?
Problem's birth:
- Environment:
- OS: Windows Server 2008R2(Front end)
- App: Sharepoint Foundation 2010.
Problem:
service "Net…
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Return-Oriented Programming: Why literal number used in ROP chain?
Following an article introducing ROP on Windows, I found that the author put some literal numbers in the ROP chain.
The code snippet generating the shellcode:
rop += struct.pack('
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Admin elevation from program that runs over network
Small parts of my application require admin rights (activation of the software needs to go to HKLM). For this, I draw shield icons on the buttons whose action require admin rights and when clicking, I restart the application with an appropriate…
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Windows File security, removing an access rule
I have the following code, that should remove the access of users from a certain folder. Unfortunately it doesn't (the access rule remains in place). No exception is thrown.
AuthorizationRuleCollection arc = ds.GetAccessRules(true, true,…
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Virtual Directory in Tomcat Wont Work
Help!
I am trying to get a virtual directory in Tomcat 6.0 to work.
This had been working for years in connecting a virtual directory to a share on two separate servers on two separate org domains than my own.
Just recently, and at different…
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How do I grant privileges to a user/role in Windows 7?
How do I grant specific privileges (not permissions) to a specific user? I'm confused because it seems there are "permissions" and "privileges" and I need to be able to grant the SE_SYSTEMTIME_NAME privilege so that a piece of software I wrote can…
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