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Lock users in a directory
File structure:
/
| root
| srv
| etc
| home
| duke
| aa
| bin
| scripts
| logs
| etc
| servers
| user1
| user2
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About denying full-control for other users in folder-files security permission?
Windows 10, have two profiles and also two partitions, one mine, Administrator account, and another newly created guests account for cousin... but, when I logged in, I was shocked to see, that it had ...
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How to restrict the system account of a specific windows system from accessing a drive
I installed two windows 10 operating systems on my computer. For some reason, I don't want the system account of one of the windows operating systems to modify the files on this disk, and I don't want ...
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Private User folders by default using file permissions on Windows 10 system
There are many ways one can change Permissions for certain files and folders on Windows manually (e.g. through Properties > Security > Permissions). But how do I change the default Permissions to make ...
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How can I restrict access to a folder from another admin user in Windows 10?
I have Windows 10 with two admin users. I want to restrict user2 from accessing a folder of user1 and user2 should not be able tot changes the setting made to that restricted folder. Is it possible?
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Make Folder only able to read/write from a certain process
I want to disable the user/admins from reading contents/editing and the only way the the files in the folder can be read/edited are by that program/process. How could I do this in windows 10?
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Account has lost all of it's permissions, how do I fix that?
I made a secondary account when a guest came, and went to the C:\Users folder, right clicked on the main account, went to "Give access to" and then "Remove access". I messed with some other options as ...
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What is the difference between Right and Permission?
I know that the term rights applies to user/groups of users (such as- the user X has the right to change system time) ; and the term permissions applies to an object (such as folder/file. Eg- the ...
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Deleting old account on Windows XP after reinstall
I recently had to reinstall Windows XP due to some kind of corruption. As I didn't wipe the hard drive first, the old user accounts containing my documents are still present. I want to get rid of ...
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Can't delete folder as admin, asks for Admin User that doesn't exist - "You'll need to provide administrator permission to delete this folder"
I am having a similar issue to the user who posted here.
Basically, a folder in my Downloads (which shouldn't have any special permissions) won't allow me to delete it. When I try, I get a message ...
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Linux permissions: Users, Groups, Others, white list or black list? And help sharing directories with full, partial, and no permissions
Update: for my general purposes, what I figured out here is good enough: UPDATE: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/13401/locking-down-raspbian-to-only-allow-limited-features/58778#58778
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Windows File Owner: Administrators vs. My Account
I performed a reset on Windows 8.1. On a non-system drive where I keep data, most of the files have an SID related to my user account from the old installation. However, a good number of them have ...
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Access denied for newly created folder, unable to change permissions
I just created a new folder: C:\Projects\API from the Command Prompt, using mkdir API from within the projects folder, after deleting an old folder of the same name, using: RMDIR API /S.
I then ...
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VirtualBox in Linux: same virtual machine in a shared folder result in file not accesible every time an user saves the state of the machine
I have created a shared folder in /Users/shared_folder. I have moved the virtual box files to that folder /Users/shared_folder/.VirtualBox VMs/
I have set the whole folder with all the permissions: ...
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Is it possible to create a User account that has access to a share, but won't show up on the Login screen?
My two roommates and I all have Windows 7. I've shared two folders on one of my drives, I want to have Read-Write from my actual Admin account but I'd like for them to only have Read access.
I set up ...
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giving read and write access to group and folder
Say I have a group called mygroup and I want it to have a permission of rwx (777) to the folder /var/www . How do I do this? What is the appropriate command to do this in ubuntu?
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How to set Permissions and Owner/Group to be used for file creation?
Legend: Owner/Group e.g. AccountUser/Nobody
On a web server (apache), I have a folder (chmod 775, AccountUser/Nobody) which I move uploaded files into. A web-based script running as Nobody is used ...
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another User Profile Service failed to load case
I'll try to describe in quick short sentences what happened.
PC (Windows 7 64bit home premium) forces a shut down after starting up from sleep mode (due to the nature of how it went I assume it was ...
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Windows 8.1 Admin account is logging in as a user account
This one has me completely lost so I hope there's someone out there who can help.
I'm running Windows 8.1, I have the only account that has ever been on the computer and when I set it up I set it as ...
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How to recover Windows 8 authenticated users access if denied for a particular folder
I've got Windows 8 and trying to restrict access to a particular folder on my D: drive for other user accounts, and set permissions for the authenticated user group in security tab as denied. Now I ...
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How do I add a network user into my file permissions?
I have a folder (in particular, a "User Home" folder) that I would like to give access to a local account.
For example, My laptop's local name is called "PC", for some apparent reason.
It is also ...
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Is there a way to give NTFS file permissions to users from other Windows installations?
I am trying to set file permissions so users from two Windows installations can access certain files from a shared NTFS hard disk, withouth resorting to give "Everyone" permissions.
From within an ...
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Add multiple @groups to valid users
In smb.conf I have the line
valid users = @Staff @Directors
Is this a valid syntax to add two groups to the valid users line? It does not seem to work right on our xp pro clients.
If not which of ...
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Linux/Samba Windows7 and permissions on a per user basis
I would like to set up my NAS properly with user and group permissions.
While this was easy to accomplish for all Linux boxes using NFS, I cannot get it to work with Windows and Samba, Windows7 and ...
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Can't remove Windows 8 user account files to free up space [duplicate]
So when I was installing Windows 8 Pro (which came as an upgrade from a previous version of Windows) I created an account. Let's call it "DC". During the upgrade Windows used up quite a lot of space ...
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Linux - Set Subdirectory as Root for a user/group
We currently are only using a root ssh login to our server and are attempting to make a "developer" status user which should only have access to a sub directory.
Is there a way we can set it up so ...
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More Linux permissions questions
I've read countless articles on the topic and searched through every question and answer I could find without any luck. I'm slowly going mad so I'm turning to you guys since I know the answer to my ...
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Setting up a shared folder in Linux
I'm trying to set up a folder in my home directory that will be shared with another user, but I can't get it to work.
This is what I've done: I have tried two different ways using ACL's and chown/...
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Why does group permission hide other permission?
I just noticed that on Centos 4, a file's group permissions hide the other permissions if you are a member of the group. I would think they would be OR(ed) together? For example:
drwx---r-x 1 ...
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FreeBSD file group write permissions
I have created a dummy file just to test out group permissions.
touch /path/test.txt
chown user1:txtwriter /path/test.txt
chmod 664 /path/test.txt && ls -la
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 ...
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Adding an unlisted group in Mac OS X
I accidentally removed the "staff" group from a set of folder permissions and I have no idea how to get it back.
Is there a way to get it back, and if so how?
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Linux User Permissions?
I have two users, user1 and user2 which are both in a group matching their user name. I'd like both users to have full r/w/x permissions on all of each other's files as default without having to CHMOD ...
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How to change the permissions on Linux
How do I set all *.java files in the current directory and all its sub directories to have read permission to all users?
I also want to set all files of at least 1 kilobyte in size in the current ...
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Owner group of /var/www
If I change the owner of /var/www to ftpgroup
sudo chown :ftpgroup /var/www
am I going to have other kind of issues ? Or is that ok ?
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User write in a subfolder when cant access parent?
I was wondering, i have a webfolder and have permissions set to 770 with group being www-data. I would like to give access to one folder to a friend so he can edit images, css, etc. I made that folder ...
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How is it possible to list all folders that a particular user/group has permissions on?
Is it possible to list all folders/files that a given group has explicit permissions on, for a machine running Windows Server 2003? If so, how? It would be nice to see inherited permissions as well,...
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Unix users and permissions and how they interact with web files
When you issue the command ls in Linux you get this sort of thing:
drwxr--r-- 1 fred editors 4096 drafts
-rw-r--r-- 1 fred editors 30405 file1.php
-r-xr-xr-x 1 fred fred 8460 ...
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Applications on an account with Administrator privileges cannot run
Several applications cannot run in an Administrator account because they do not have permission to create files in the %APPDATA% folder.
Background:
Running 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium Edition on ...
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How to set an executable white list?
Under Linux, is it possible to set a white-list of executables for a certain group of users? I need them to be unable to use, for example, make, gcc and executables on removable disks.
How can this be ...
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Linux file permissions seem right but I can't write to a directory
I believe that I have the permissions set correctly but I can't write to a directory. Here's my problem:
cborders@Kraken:/var/www$ ls -la
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 webz webz 4096 2011-12-30 14:58 ./
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Why is my Time Machine backup trying to backup everything from scratch?
I have a MacBook Pro from work, and I backup a single 20GB folder on it called "Projects" that sits within the root directory on the main hard drive. Recently, our IT department had to create us all ...
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Using the command "id" in Linux?
I have some doubts with the use of the command id in Linux...
I have added one user(andre) to the group "github-total", do if I do id andre I got:
$ id andre
uid=500(andre) gid=500(andre) groups=500(...
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Unix Permissions issue with users belonging to the same group accessing a folder
I have a folder I'd really like to allow another user on this machine access to. I'm using mt-daapd to serve music to the network, so I'd like to enable the mt-daapd user to access my Music directory, ...
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