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Questions tagged [permissions]

Access and restrictions of files, documents, accounts, computers, etc.

Permissions is an extremely vital principle in . The usage of permissions spans from as low-level as a single machine instruction to an entire network.

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Cannot Delete Shortcut from Desktop because I need Admin Permissions even though I am Admin

Installing the new Malwarebytes 2.0 put a shortcut on my desktop that I want to remove, but dragging it to the recycle bin shows this message: I am an administrator on this computer, so normally clicking "Continue" solves the problem, but it didn't…
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I chmod tar file 600 but I still can see it in browser via apache

I'm wondering why is it still possible to see my tar file when it is owned by root and chmoded to 600. I have apache, and my server is ubuntu 12.04. Any explanation of this behavior? parent folder is owned by www-data. Thanks!
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When does it make sense to give write permission, but not read permission?

In UNIX, a file's read and write permissions are independent, so you can make a file writable, but not readable. If I trust someone to write to a file, why wouldn't I want them to be able to read it? If there's important stuff in there, but I don't…
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Sharing and Security permissions for domain and local users and groups

I believe I am dealing with a knowledge gap. I think I understand this about 80% but apparently that is not enough. Questions like this have plagued me for a long time. I will try to be a clear as possible. Server OS Windows 2003 R2 Standard SP2.…
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A Windows 10 fault with file permissions

Not sure if the question has arisen in this form before. I've just upgraded to Windows10 on my desktop (an HP PAvilion23) and found that file permissions were changed to read/execute; writing and updating not allowed. It's possible to rest…
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Add group write permission to folder in Ubuntu

I have set up a mail server and I receive an error in the log file when trying to log in to Thunderbird. chdir mydomain.com/admin/: No such file or directory I was told that the the folder can be created by sending a mail to the newly created mail…
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Drupal 7, Fedora - dd() doesn't work for me over the web

I've designated the tmp directory to be /tmp (at the Drupal admin path admin/config/media/file-system). This setting is confirmed by running dpm(file_directory_temp()); from devel/php. The permissions of /tmp/drupal_debug.txt (including SELinux…
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Can a user without execution permissions do anything to a directory in Linux?

I have tried giving a directory read and write permissions without execution, but it seems like, without execution permissions, read and write don't allow you to do anything at all.
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Set permissions for a program, not for a user

I am wondering if I can set permissions to allow a program (I am writing) to access a file (. mdb file on a shared network drive), but the user who is running this program does not have permissions to modify that file? This is on Windows Server 2012…
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User Access to a Folder on File Server

We have one File Server running Windows Server 2008 R2. We have different folders on File Server like HR, Operations, Accounts, Finance, Sales ec cetra. User A is a new user and he/she wants to access HR folder and everything that's in there. On…
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How do I delete scsecsvc.exe which is left after the quick heal uninstall?

I installed the anti-virus - Quickheal trial version and then uninstalled it in order to install another anti-virus. Quickheal seemed to have left this program which runs in the background and simply wont die. I am on windows 7 - 32 bit. I am the…
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network access denied by access control list (ACL)

I am running sqldeveloper on my laptop windows 8.1. When I was debuggin it asked me to give permission - by default it allowed local network and not public network. When I run process , it give me this error message Executing PL/SQL: CALL…
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Grant full permissions by default on Ubuntu

I'm trying to set the default permissions on my Ubuntu installation. I'd like all files created to have 755 permissions. Currently, they have 666, even though I have my umask set to 000. Example: $ umask 0000 $ touch tmp.txt $ ls -l…
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How to delete files owned by other users windows 7?

I have an external hard drive that I used to install programs on, I have since formatted my c drive and use the external drive as a storage only drive. There are however two remnants left over from the previous install on the external hd. One is a…
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Copied a folder from Windows to Ubuntu, have no permissions

I took a web project from my Window's disk and put it under /var/www. localhost (my web server) doesn't recognize it because of permissions. What do I need to run on the folder so that apache can read/write to it? I tried recursive chmod, didn't…
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