permissions

Permissions checking in server-side API

Hi all, our product is built on a client-server architecture, with the server implemented in Java (we are using POJO's with Spring framework). We have two API levels on the server: the external API, which uses REST web services - useful for external clients and integrations with other servers. the internal API, which uses pure Java cl...

WAMP - PHP shell_exec() problem

I'm using WAMP as a server, and I have a need to execute svn, which can be found in my Windows directory: C:/Program Files/Subversion/bin/ The problem, is that when I launch the php program from the server, it won't produce output. It works from the command line, which makes me think this is a permissions problem with WAMP. However afte...

SharePoint WebPart Permissions

Hi I am using the SharePoint namespace for a webpart and I encounter some permission errors when I try to use the System account. Is there a way I can use a defined user instead of the system account? Right now I have: SPUserToken sysToken = SPContext.Current.Site.SystemAccount.UserToken; using (SPSite site = new SPSite(_SPSite, sysTo...

Cannot connect ASP.NET to Outlook in IIS, but can through Visual Studio

I'm doing a home project that started off really easy (doesn't that always happen?) and then took a nasty permissions turn. Basically, I have a home intranet and my PC is doing double-duty as the home web server. I'm running Vista, so we're talking IIS 7. In Visual Studio, this works perfectly. I have my homepage query Outlook (2007)...

IIS7 Permission Problem*EDIT

I have a normal Windows Server 2008 installation with II7. Each website has it's own application pool. But there is a security realated problem. There is no restriction for an asp.net application to write a file into C: or any other directorys. In IIS 6 before this could happen I would have to set those rights in the windows folder se...

Problem in installing Tig to my server

How can I give the command "make install" sufficient permissions to run the following successfully? [~/tig-0.14.1]# make install mkdir -p /usr/local/bin && \ for prog in tig; do \ install -p -m 0755 "$prog" "/usr/local/bin"; \ done mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local': Permission denied make: *** [install] Error 1 I run ./c...

Asp.net FileUploader doesn't work when using UNC file path

Let me start by saying, I'm no expert in windows file permissions, so maybe there is something very basic I am missing here. I have a Asp.net FileUploader control. I have a folder on the same machine as the Asp.net application I would like files to be uploaded to. I want to be able to tell the FileUploader to put the files in \\this...

Android homescreen shortcut permission error

Hello, In my program it adds a shortcut to the screen. I get the icon on the screen fine, but when I tap it, I get: 03-01 20:00:29.410: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(796): java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent { data=http://www.example.com/ flags=0x14000000 comp={com.isaacwaller.example/com.isaacwaller.example.ExampleCu...

How to deny Assert with CAS ?

Hi, In this code, I'd like the ReadFileSystem method to be forbidden to Assert a permission on the filesystem. I expected this will throw at fileIo.Assert(), but it doesn't. Why? using System.Security.Permissions; static void Main(string[] args) { var fileIo = new FileIOPermission(PermissionState.Unrestricted); var secuPerm = ...

Permissions Problems in Mac OS X Tiger Server

I'm having the following problem: Our users are using Macs running Mac OS Leopard to connect to an Xserve running Tiger Server (Version 10.4.11) via AFP. On the Xserve, I created a user group called "staff" (using Directory Admin) and put some user accounts into that group. Then I made the group "staff" owner of the folder I want them...

DotNetZip: creating zip with C# permissions issue

I am using DotNetZip and have noticed that i am getting permission issues on Mac's. This seems to only occur when i use content disposition. ie if i just save it to disk using (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile(@"C:\zip\temp.zip")) { // this works fine } but if i use content disposition like so, on mac the user permissions are denied ( e...

How can you prevent direct browsing to an image in a web directory?

I'm creating an image gallery site that you have to log in to access. The site will use sessions to keep track of usernames and passwords. Logged in users will be able to search for images and see results. Presumably, this means I'll be putting images in a web directory. How do I keep non-logged in people from being able to browse direct...

django / file uploads permissions

Hi there, I wrote a django app, but i have a little problem with the file permissions of the uploads files from a web form. Baically i can upload a .mp3 file but it always keep chmod 600. Th container folder has chmod 775, and the umask is set to 022. I'm in a shared hosting service. Thanks if any one can give a clue. ...

Java Applet Permissions

I've put together a basic applet where the user selects a file from their hard drive, it reads the first line of this file and passes that off to JavaScript for some additional preprocessing, and then when you click a button it tries to upload that file through an HTTP POST request. I found a very basic open source applet for uploading f...

Row level user permissions, help with design

Hi, Say I am creating a forums application, I understand how to design a forum level permission system with Groups. i.e. you create a forum to group mapping, and assign users to a group to give them access to a particular forum. How can I refine the permissions to allow for row level permissions (or in forum terms, post level). ...

Why are my file permissions on Apache being reset?

We recently switched from using PCs at work to Macs, so I'm new to the *nix way of doing things. I have the default Apache running that shipped with 10.5, but I've noticed that when I drag files from a Windows server to my machine, the permissions are changed. Specifically, I'm writing data to an XML file, and occasionally after swapping...

blocking access to network services to a user in linux

is it possible to give a user an account on a linux machine while blocking his access to network services (say, don't let him open tcp connections to port 80 on the internet). I know a firewall can do this, but I would like something in the unix philosohpy (everything is a file). perhaps there is somewhere a file that represents port 80...

Privilege Escalation in Web Environment for File Access

I have a situation where I would like to elevate the permissions I have in a web environment so that I can access a serial device. The specific case is where I have a web interface for configuring a modem that comes up on /dev/ttyUSB[0-9]. Zero or more modems will be plugged in by an end user. I am writing some software that is capab...

Updating permissions on Amazon S3 files that were uploaded via JungleDisk

I am starting to use Jungle Disk to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket which corresponds to a Cloudfront distribution. i.e. I can access it via an http:// URL and I am using Amazon as a CDN. The problem I am facing is that Jungle Disk doesn't set 'read' permissions on the files so when I go to the corresponding URL in a browser I get ...

What are best practices for permissions on Apache-writable directories?

Sometimes I want to allow users to upload files through Apache. There are two different ways I could set the permissions so that Apache can write the uploaded files to the directory. I can make the user Apache is running as the owner of the directory so that it looks like this: drwxr-xr-x 2 www admin 68 Sep 24 2007 uploade...