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In computing, permissions (often called "privileges," "access rights" or just "rights") are rules associated with objects on a computer or network. Permissions determine which objects can access which objects, and to what extent.

In computing, permissions (often called "privileges," "access rights" or just "rights") are rules associated with objects on a computer or network. Permissions determine which objects can access which objects, and to what extent.

For example, file permissions are rules placed on a filesystem object defining which accounts are allowed to access the object, and what actions those accounts can take on the object, such as read, write and/or delete.

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How to convince a big boss that he does not need administrator privileges?

I've found a lot of times that "the big boss" in a company want to be able to install "anything" and to do anything in their computer. Of course we can tell him that it is bad because the IT system administrators lose control over the computer, and…
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Caddy "listen tcp :443: bind: permission denied"

Caddy server would not start and displayed this error after upgrading to v0.9.3: listen tcp :443: bind: permission denied I was running caddy with systemd as user caddy. I checked that the binary was, in fact, owned by caddy.
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Is it normal to give 'users' administrator access to their company PC?

I have a user who wants to be a administrator of his work PC, he's made some story up about how he can't work without it so I'm told to "fix it" (as if it is a fault he's logged on as a user!). My IT co-workers and I don't login as administrators…
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IT department for hire/Managed IT services

My company has very small IT needs and wants to outsource most of our IT operations. We've moved some stuff to hosted services, but other things like network administration, setting up new employees' machines, creating VMs, managing license servers…
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How do I give permission to access "/server-status?" on a specific IP address?

What file do I edit in my apache2 folder that will give a specific IP address permission to access my "server-status?" page?
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Deny delete permission when saving file from IE

I am trying to setup an networkshare in which users can add/write files but are not able to delete them. So I tried this with special permissions: Domain\Usergroup - Special Permissions Allow Special Permission except 2 options: Delete subfolders…
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How to restore the mysql default permissions that allow creating/using test_* databases for all users

Somehow one of my MySQL servers is configured in a way that users can't create Databases named 'test_foo' anymore. I would like to restore the default rules that come with fresh MySQL installations because I need test_ databases for a test suite my…
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Protect active directory from accidental editing

I know you can protect OUs from accidental deleting and you can create profiles with read only privileges, but what about letting a user have write permissions on objects like user accounts but read permissions on OUs?
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Window Server Directory Permissions - Read-only folder w/full control subfolders

We have a directory on our Windows Server 2003 file server that contains subfolders for each one of our clients. These are sub-divided alphabetically, so for example, we have a folder named "Clients A-C", etc. Problem is, some users have a bad…
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Created robots.txt file for all domains on Apache server, but receive Permission Errors

I have created a 'global' robots.txt file on my Ubuntu Server and located it in /home/robots.txt And then in /etc/apache2/apache.conf have added this at the bottom: Alias /robots.txt /home/robots.txt and restarted apache. However when trying to…
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w3c validator fails to hand off to validator.nu

I am setting up a local instance of the W3c validator on a computer running Centos 6.4. I have installed it using yum. For HTML5 validation, the validator hands off to a separate implementation, available from validator.nu I can run the validator.nu…
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Resetting permissions in 2008 r2

Recently someone made a change to the permissions in one of our directories. This effected every user. There must be a script to fix this all at once instead of one by one. What changed: the users need full control over their own folders, files and…
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Permission denied while executing a command on a remote machine using pdsh

I am able to connect to a remote machine using the following command: /usr/bin/adm/pdsh -l root -w "loop" pdsh> but when I try to execute any command it gives following error: pdsh> cd /var loop: Permission denied, please try again. loop:…
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Sudden Change in file upload permissions

After two years and more of my client's bespoke CMS running fine, I get a call saying that the images, pdfs and docs they upload do not appear on their site. Looking into this I find the files are uploaded to the server, but are not readable. They…
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unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

today i logged in to find i can't even cd into /var/ directory. I've checked that ownership and it's correct. /var/www/ is inaccessible from the web browser. it says 403 forbidden. error log shows /var/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check…
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