I use cwRsync to sync up some file from Windows to Ubuntu. This process used to work fine on Vista, but since I upgraded to Windows7, I keep getting permission issues. Some background... I did use to get the same permission issues on Vista, but that was resolved by using the CYGWIN=nontsec environment variable. The premission problem ...
I have a bookmarklet that needs to open a new window/tab. In order to avoid the popup blocker, I need to call the window.open() method directly in the bookmarklet ie: at the browser-level. However, I want to keep the bookmarklet updatable by loading external Javascript files. To do this, the bookmarklet needs to append script nodes to ...
Hi everyone, I have put a config ini file "config.ini" for reading and writing to from my C# program, the thing is, if the user has UAC enabled then for some weird reasons the program doesn't read or write to the file but it managed to create the file but cannot read or write to it. How can I get this to work. this file is saved into ...
I am developing an e-commerce website that utilises db4o as the backend. All was well until last week when I came across a problem that I have been unable to solve. The code below is quite straight forward. I open a database file, save an object and then try to retrieve it. However I get nothing back. The "users" variable has a count...
Background I am in the process of creating an application (referred to as MyApp) which must read data out from a SQL Server database handled by Navision. Navision users should to be able to use my application, without modifying permissions in the database. Navision's handling of permissions seems to be on the application layer. It perf...
Is there a way to elevate privileges to the level required to write files to a network folder with our Delphi 2006 (Win32) application? The user running the application does not have permission to write (or view) files in the network folder in question. Any recommended techniques or alternative suggestions? ...
Imagine a MOSS 2007 farm with 1500 sites where the permissions are in bad shape with broken inheritance, permissions granted to individuals, etc.. How would someone go about making most of the farm read-only to most users without addressing each site individually? Assumptions: Two weeks left for planning Four hour window to apply per...
I'm trying to grant Write access to my application's registry settings to everyone or all users of a machine during the install process. My application does not have the appropriate permissions directly after install without requiring an administrator to grant them even though the keys and values exists, they cannot be updated? I've ...
I am trying to get users' permission for 'offline_access' in an iFrame Facebook application coded with the Facebook Java API. I understand that I need to obtain an 'indefinite session key' after the users approves my application. Currently, I can accomplish what I want, but in a very awkward way that is probably not correct. There must b...
What query can I run to simply see whether a user has privelege to execute a stored procedure. lets say user is UserA and stored procedure name is my_stored_proc I want to know whether UserA has execute permission on my_stored_proc UserA is not the owner of the storedproc. Some other owner grants him the permission. ...
Hi, I am a fan of linux but due to worst intel wireless drivers in linux, I had to switch to windows 7. I have installed cygwin in windows and want to configure ssh, to remotely connect to my laptop. I googled and found this webpage, http://art.csoft.net/2009/09/02/cygwin-ssh-server-and-windows-7/ I am getting the following error whe...
In .Net 4 some methods are now decorated with different security attributes than they were in previous versions (ie the new SecurityCriticalAttribute). In order to override methods with security permissions the relative security accessibilities on the derived declaration must match those on the base declaration (or else a runtime excepti...
I'm making a software that tries to restore a database to sql server, but for that, i need Full Control over the folder that will host .mdf and .ldf files, I'm using the System.Security.AccessControl classes to give Full control for everyone but its not working! I just don't know why its happening... The app aplies the rules ok, but when...
I have a headstrong user who stubbornly insists on committing his binaries (executables, DLLs) into our subversion repositories. I'd go in and delete them, but of course nothing is ever really deleted from subversion. While there are times when we need to commit binaries, I don't want users doing it as a matter of routine. I can set an ...
I'm working on an app which contains some scripting support. The scripts executed by this app might require all sorts of permissions in the future, but it's difficult to predict which ones. Is there a way to request additional permissions at runtime (like iPhone apps sometimes do) instead of specifying them all in advance in AndroidMani...
If I have a set of SQL (ie. a script containing arbitrary SQL statements), is there any way of finding out what the minimum permissions are required to execute the SQL? (I'm thinking of something similar to the "Permissions required by the application" area in Visual Studio when viewing the Security tab on the project properties page of...
I need to check if any files in a folder is open by other applications or not. Unfortunately, if a file is open, the GetFileAttributesA() return wrong values. Is there a workaround for this or am I doing something wrong ? ...
I have a shared folder (New Folder) in a remote pc with current users (user1 and user2). When I try to access the shared folder with the ff credentials in a program, the GetLastError API returns 5 but I expect that GetLastError API should return 1326. path: \\PC1\New Folder user: 12345 pwd: 12345 Please explain to me the difference. T...
Hi,folks Recently i start develop a setup program using asp.net , I want to save some global information on server machine . Registry is a way but IIS User default not write permission. So i think some folders such as "Application Data" can do it,but everyone did not write Permissions.Is there other way to solve this problem? ...
I'm getting this error when I run this code. gpg --fingerprint gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/home/dylan/.gnupg/gpg.conf The problem seems to be with permissions, but I have tried this code, and it has not seemed to change a thing. Checking through nautilus, I own the file and have read/write priv., a...