[permission] Forum Topics

Hi everyone! I'm making an application which requires users with different permissions/previleges to login and use the application.For example, if the user is "admin", all menu items in the menu bar are shown and enabled. If the user is say "user_group1", some of the menu items are to be hidden. …

Hi I am trying to provide access to a folder of photos. The website is Unix based so I can change permissions. I am using WISE-FTP 8 as my FTP program. I created a directory on the server and intend to upload about 40 photos to it. I uploaded one …

On Windows7 I am trying to read file C:\programdata\microsoft\application virtualization client\SoftGrid Client\sftfs.fsd using a Python program, but I get a PermissionError. How do I get permission? Why does folder programdata not show in the Microsoft file manager/explorer?

Kind of stuck here. I'm porting over a section of code from Java to C#, and I'm having an issue with method permissions constructors. Early in my code, i have this class.. public class TCard { int suit; int rank; } and later i've got this method, which throws a …

Allow others access files in your home directory by granting them "search" permissions. Create a publicly searchable, but not listable, subdirectory to your home directory, ~/pub. Create two subdirectories of ~/pub, both searchable and listable to only the members of the groups music and wrestle, respectively: ~/pub/music and ~/pub/wrestle. Note …

I have a PHPBB forum and just ran into a serious issue after my host switched me from a shared server to a VPS, and they can't figure out how to fix it for me. On all of my posts that contained inline attached pictures, the pictures no longer display, …

Hi Dw I'm working with permissions in my program I want it to protect the chosen file by permissions and now what I want is how can I make these permissions unchanged by a user? Or if not possible because I don't want even the administrator to change these permission …

Hi, When logged into my Amazon EC2 instances as user ec2-user, I cannot edit/delete files in my web root folder. All files are owned by apache:apache, and I have added ec2-user to the apache group. What am I missing? To sum up: [ec2-user@xxx ~]$ groups ec2-user ec2-user : ec2-user wheel …

Hello, I am sharing my webserver with a few people (it's my server) and I am trying to create some sort of an admin panel for them. It has to be able to change Apache VirtualHosts and reload Apache. Now I can make the config-changing PHP code, but there are …

Hello Community, I was wondering if there is a way to restrict sub directories from accessing the parent directory (the main directory where all my website file are stored) and from having any interaction with the previous folders (so once there in the child folder they can't leave it eg. …

So when I attempted to tag an untagged article, I received a message about not having permission to delete existing tags - of which there were *none*.... Is this a feature or by design? Thanks, JK

Ok, so I have just set up a server using Ubuntu Server 12.04 but I have hit a bit of a brick wall when attempting to view webpages. I chown'ed the /var/www folder so I could add my files to it and all is working fine from this front but …

I have upload files over the live domain. and some files are process files. how I can limit the permission of the files so user cannot type that file's name on the url address bar? example of file permission code, 0755, 0644 Can someone gives me the list, and the …

In writing a logging program for a SDK Engine, I have come across some problems. The logging function works fine when called with test programs, but when I run it in a full test of the SDK Engine, no file is ever created. I added some testing lines to make …

Hello, As a Mac user and minor maintenance man on XP machines for friends and family, pardon my ignorance on this Windows 7 issue. I bought my father an Iomega portable 320GB HDD for Father's Day For his new HP machine with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. He wants …

Hi all, Here's the problem I have. I am designing a website in HTML and I want to include a chat system using a Java applet. I have written a small example applet that just connects to my server and gets the users that are currently online. The applet works …

My original plan was to pipe "ls -l", get the permission string that represented the file in question. Translate the string of 'r's 'w's 'x's '-'s into 0s and 1s then convert it from binary to octal. This seems really cumbersome and annoying and I gotta figure there is some …

I have a question, couple of years ago, I had a system failure and windows tech support help me fix it but had me do a lot of registry entries in windows recovery console. What ended up for the fix was he had me actually put the boot files on …

That should be: "[B]Unable[/B] to modify shared files and folders." I am running Active Directory on a Windows Server 2003 Standard (SP2) machine. I added an external hard drive to hold shared files. I didn't have an problem moving the files from their original location on the server's internal HDD. …