file-permissions

rmi java.security.AccessControlException

Hi all, I am new to RIM, and currently taking the tutorial at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/rmi/overview.html I am able to start server like: C:\Documents and Settings\myHome>java -cp c:\home\ann\src;c:\home\ann\public_ html\classes\compute.jar -Djava.rmi.server.codebase=file:/c:/home/ann/public_htm l/classes/compute.jar -Dj...

PHP unable to open folder for writing. permission denied. Using wampserver2

Anybody know how to get around this with wampserver2? I'm trying to use this thumbnail generator http://phpthumb.gxdlabs.com/ ...

Sql Server Backup and move backup file: How to cope with file permissions?

With our product we have a simple backup tool for the sql server database. This tool should just make a full backup and restore to and from any folder. Of course, the user (usually an administrator) needs permission to write to the target folder. To avoid the problem of not being able to perform a backup to a network drive, I write the...

Java applet - access denied to file on same web server

I've written a simple Java applet to generate a technical image based upon some data in a CSV file. I'm passing in the CSV file as a parameter to the applet: <applet code = "assaymap.AssayMapApplet" archive = "http://localhost/applet_test/AssayMap.jar" height="600px" width="800px"> <param name="csvFile" value="http://localhost/apple...

Error with Dolphin Boonex Community Framework

I just finished moving files from my system to my web host and I am getting this error. I have manually changed the permissions of the tmp folder they are referring to but I keep getting the errror. Please could someone tell me what the problem could be Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Please make sure the /hom...

IE 8 Errors for Group Permissions for access

Hello, The company I work for is about to begin testing for a transition from IE6 to IE8. One of our main concerns is about using permissions to control intranet access to internal sites,etc. This was a problem we encountered during testing for IE7 and scrapped it all together. However, IE6 has more than its foot in the grave, its hea...

Who owns a php exec tar extracted file?

As far as file permissions are concerned, when you use a php script to unzip a tar file, who is the "owner" user of the files created? I'm wondering if its my ftp user because I uploaded the script file? Or does apache own the file? I know their are flags to be set to preserve the original permissions which I don't want (files where cr...

Python: shutil.rmtree fails on Windows with 'Access is denied'

In Python, when running shutil.rmtree over a folder that contains a read-only file, the following exception is printed: File "C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py", line 216, in rmtree rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror) File "C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py", line 216, in rmtree rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror) File "C:\Python26\l...

PHP/Apache Deny folder access to user but not to script

Hey all, So I have this php web app, and one of my folder contains some files that can be downloaded. I have a download script that modifies the headers, in order to always offer a download link. (instead of showing a picture for example, when you click on a link, a download box pops out) Right now, if you enter a url like: http://www...

What are the permissions I need?

My folder at: /usr/local/www/.ext_env_vars has a bunch of files in it that my app needs to read. The user is 'webapp' So, I changed the perms like so: chmod -R 400 .ext_env_vars chown -R webapp.webapp .ext_env_vars The application can't read these. However, when I chmod 777, they are read by the app. So, it isn't that I have a path...

Windows "known folders": is there any one of them which is reliably read/write for all users on all versions?

SHGetKnownFolderPath() and its cohorts accept one of the constants defined here, returning the path to a directory. I'm looking for one of these folders which is reliably writable by all users (including LocalSystem) on XP, Vista, and Windows 7... but I think I'm striking out. It appears that, in fact, there is no single location on ...

Access Denied while using System.Diagnostics.Process

I am trying to use the unmanaged ImageMagick library in my ASP.NET application from the command line using System.Diagnostics.Process. Basically, users will upload an .eps file to the site, and then I will run the command line command to convert it into .jpg. This is the code I'm using to try and run the command: Dim proc As N...

Folder permission and submit button

I want to create a simple installation script. Below are simple code. <ul> <?php function check_perms($path,$perm) { clearstatcache(); $configmod = substr(sprintf('%o', fileperms($path)), -4); $css = (($configmod != $perm) ? " class='error'" : " class='none'"); echo "<li".$css.">\n"; echo '<span style="float:left;...

File permissions changed between OS X and Windows

I zipped a rails project from OS X and sent it to a colleague who works on Windows. He updated the source, zipped the whole project folder and sent the zip file back to me. After unzipping the project, I found that the file permissions information is kind of lost. For example, the script/server is changed from -rwxr-xr-x to -rw-r--r--. ...

VB.NET 2008, Windows 7 and saving files

Hello, We have to learn VB.NET for the semester, my experience lies mainly with C# - not that this should make a difference to this particular problem. I've used just about the most simple way to save a file using the .NET framework, but Windows 7 won't let me save the file anywhere (or anywhere that I have found yet). Here is the code...

PHP mkdir issue!

Hi, I trying to create some dirs like this: @mkdir("photos/$cat/$sku", 0777, true) it creates the first directory with 0777 permissions, but when it creates the second is uses 000 as it's perms, so it fails to create the third. A workaround this please? Thanks, Richard. ...

Can I use php's fwrite with 644 file permissions?

I am trying to set up automated .htaccess updating. This clearly needs to be as secure as possible, however right now the best I can do file permission-wise is 666. What can I do to setup either my server or php code so that my script's fwrite() command will work with 644 or better? For instance is there a way to set my script(s) to ...

After tar extract, Changing Permissions

Just a Question Regarding unix and PHP today. What I am doing on my PHP is using the Unix system to untar a tarred file. exec("tar -xzf foo.tar.gz"); Generally everything works fine until I run into this particular foo.tar.gz, which has a file system as follows: Applications/ Library/ Systems/ After running the tar command, it seem...

Proper permission and directoy location for Git Version Control

I am using Git Version Control on an remote server and I have set up a repository that multiple people will be using to push/fetch from. I have put the repo under /srv/subdir/git/.git I have been experiencing problem after problem it seems like. a) Is this location suitable for handling a project that will need to be accessed/modified...

Maintaining file permissions across SVN updates?

I have a series of python scripts with execute permissions in Linux. They are stored in SVN. If I then run svn up to update them, the overwritten files are back to 644 - ie no execute permissions for anyone. Yes I could just script it to chmod +x * afterwards, but surely there's a way to store permissions in SVN or to maintain them wh...