Can anyone tell me, what's the real difference between group and role? I've been trying to figure this out for some time now and the more information I read, the more I get the sense that this is b...

On some machine we have the following error at service install: "Service ... failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services." Service is installed fine tho, j...

I want to know if a program is running as administrator. The user doesn't have to be administrator. I only want to know if my application has rights to edit some secured files that are editable whe...

The question is really clear. Which (Windows-) folders always have write permissions? So I need to find a folder which always has write permissions on any system for any application. Currently I...

i was curious if there was a way to grant multiple users simultaneously rights Example: I want to give certain rights to multiple people that start with the letter AAR. Usual grant on : GRANT SE...

From a live magento setup I made a tar.gz, moved that to an domains of another DirectAdmin user, extracted the tar.gz, copied the database, changed the URL of domain in the database. Front-end work...

We help our clients to manage and publish their media online - images, video, audio, whatever. They always ask my boss whether they can stop users from copying their media, and he asks me, and I al...

I need to limit file size when I run "tcpdump -w 1.pcap". I try to do this with the key "-C", but when I add it I get error "permission denied". So: > sudo tcpdump -w 1.pcap tcpdump: listening ...

we run into problems using the product. It seems does some functions in iText 5.4.3 doesn’t working well? Please, can someone give us a hint how to solve that? We modify src.pdf to dest.pdf as fol...

I am making a simple application that lets you quickly enter a shell command to be run. It works perfectly, however there is the problem of sudo commands. Currently, it detects a sudo command, and ...

I can't figure out how to give every single right to a specific user, I want a user to have every single right on a schema: inserts, deletes, updates, selects, ... on existing tables I have tr...

Here's the scenario (simplified example): I have an Oracle user/schema called ABC. ABC owns a table called TRN. Client side code connects to the database as ABC and selects from ABC.TRN. So far s...

I'm trying to restraint editing on the Wiki (using MediaWiki) that I'm creating as an internal project for my company. We would like to be able to let the page creators specify none or one of the ...

I'm currently looking into the spring-security framework - great stuff so far, pretty impressed. However, I haven't found out where or how to define a inheritance of permissions. e.g. I want the R...

I need to launch gphoto2 from a Qt program. I do this: QString gphotoProgram = "/usr/bin/gphoto2"; QStringList gphotoArguments; gphotoArguments << "--capture-image"; QProcess *gphotoProcess ...

I have one .net application which would be installed under "program files" running in 2 different modes: "ADVANCED_MODE" with all plugins enabled which should pop-up the UAC to run as administra...

Does anyone know what would be the minimum rights I would need to grant to a domain user account in order to run a windows service as that user? For simplicity, assume that the service does ...

I'm having some trouble with my C# app that uses win32_networkingadapterconfig. The problem is that I can't use the altering functions in win32_networkingadapterconfig when I use the app on a user ...

I found out how to deny all access to tables for user in a schema. REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ON SCHEMA test FROM user; But what can i do to restrict access to all functions in a schema, so that user...