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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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