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Centos 6.5 /var/www/html/ User permissions

I have a dedicated server but only root can access my hosting directory. All other users get permission denied when I try access the directory with another user. I have created a new user, added the user to the apache group (as the directory is…
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I'm making a user for a custom java server, what do I need to take into account setting up the user?

I'm new to this process, so bear with me please. The server is my own socket server, it parses data from connected clients and saves it to a database. It won't serve data in the form of web pages or anything, at the very most it'll retrieve data…
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How to create nested file and set owner for all parent paths?

I need to create the following file for www-data user like the following: sudo /var/www/.ssh/authorized_keys But non of www, .ssh directories and authorized_keys file does not exists. How could I create them all and set owner www-data for all of…
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Corrective action for file security after Windows server rename

I have renamed a Windows Server using the Control Panel feature. This worked fine at first. Today I noticed that I was unable to rename a certain file that I always was able to rename before. This file was a SQL Server database file. The SQL Server…
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What system-wide changes can a user make?

I work in an organization that uses Faronics Deep Freeze to prevent users from making changes to the computer. I had always been under the impression that a standard user (a user who is only a member of the "Users" group) can't make any system-wide…
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Cron permissions (root, usergroup) - could not open input file

I have a server for which I have created a cron job "sendalerts" to users. Mind you this "sendalerts.php" should be runnable from two methods (via browser and also via a cron job) So cron's job is to execute a php file which then sends the alerts…
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Server Security: FTP and System Users

I'd be happy to get an advice about handling system users and ftp users on a Linux server (Ubuntu). Just want to do it right way. I have a sysUser.sysGroup and created virtual ftpUser.ftpGroup for ProFTPD server. Virtual ftp user (ftpUser) and…
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What is a good approach to install a webserver?

I wan't to install Lighttpd on my V-Server under Debian. I'm new to Linux and I wonder if I should install Lighttpd as root or as a new User to avoid security issues?
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Why is my dir not showing in ftp session?

I am new to linux so please have patience with me. I set up my centos 6.3 server on a virtual machine, installed many things including httpd and vsftpd. I changed the config to allow only users in the chroot_list and the other settings are as…
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I'm able to login via "psql" as "posgres" with any linux user - is this a security issue?

I used sudo su postgres and set up my database while logged in as the linux user postgres. After exiting to my normal shell, logged in as my non-root user, I can simply use psql -U postgres and then do whatever I want with any database, Postgres…
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Bind a fake service to a tcp port

A friend of mine gives me a (user) ssh access on an ec2-instance (ubuntu) that he's got. So, for reason that now I don't know, in the future I will have need of an open tcp port over the firewall to make listening some sort of service (like http or…
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allow client to change registry

How can I grant user to write to win7 registry. He is in domain win2008 R2. What I must change in group policy to allow access? He is trying to run some portable aplication and without this cant run it. Thanks a lot.
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NFS user access on clients conflicts with local user access on server

QNAP TS-873A here with ZFS. I have a storage volume that I am exporting over nfs (root squash) to multiple local clients. No issues there - each client's user has the same uid / gid and can access the volumes over nfs just fine. The issue is when I…
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setup apache www directory for multiple users over sftp

I have standard Ubuntu 16.04 droplet over digitalocean with LAMP stack. By default I have one user with root privileges (for admin use). I access any directory from root through ssh like with filezilla or netbeans. It all works fine as it should…
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Windows Server delete files in folder but no permision to delete folder itself

We have a problem, with permissions on shared folder for out employees. We have folder lets say Main, with multiple projects (files and folder inside), constantly added and removed. The problem is that it happend that some employee deleted the…
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