privileges

How can I get back my privilege to create a new database in MySQL?

I log in PhpMyadmin with the root user,there is a red message No Privileges under create new database, How can I get back my privilege to create a new database? ...

#1130 - Host ‘localhost’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

I issued a command of: DROP USER 'root'@'localhost'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO 'root'@'%'; ...in PhpMyAdmin. Immediately after the execution, I was forced out PhpMyAdmin. I got: error #1130 - Host 'localhost' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server, how to resolve my problem? ...

How can I get back my privilege to create a new database in MySQL?

I can not use MySQL. MySQL is on my local computer. Currently I added skip-grant-tables in My.ini so I can use MySQL. But I have no privilege to create a new database. My problem is tough, although I asked related questions on SO, but no answer can resolve my problem. I almost give up. So I lower my expectation. I am developing a website...

Escalating privileges on linux programmatically

I am creating a graphical installer that should run on Linux. Installing should consist of copying files to some places in /usr. Currently the installer is written in Python. How can I escalate the privileges of my installer when I need to copy files? I looked at PolicyKit but a) there doesn't seem to be a generic "install files" acti...

How can I route users to different functions based on their privileges in CakePHP?

This may have been asked before, and I have seen similar solutions... Perhaps I am thinking about this incorrectly. I would like to have one link called user/edit if the user is an admin it should route to admin_ if they are a basic user it should route to user_ etc... Is there a way to do this in a slick way? I have seen solutions tha...

Create user and privileges to DB in MySQL VIA script

I need to create a script that can create a user/password and grant then certain privileges on a local DB. Thanks in advance! -Sol ...

WIN API User Privilege C++

Hi, I'm trying to see if the user has the SeLoadDriver privilege. I've got the PLUID : PLUID pld; LookupPrivilegeValue(NULL, SE_LOAD_DRIVER_NAME, pld); But now i'm not sure how to get a bool from the PLUID stating that the user has, or not, the privilege. I've read the related methods but it think that it might be an easy way...

Determine if Windows process has privilege to create symbolic link

I want to programmatically determine if the current user (or process) has access to create symbolic links. In Windows (Vista and greater), one cannot create a symbolic link without the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege and by default, this is only assigned to administrators. If one attempts to create a symbolic link without this privilege, a...

Using sudo commands in Cocoa and Objective-C?

What is the proper way to run something like $sudo touch folder_name or $sudo rm from within Objective-C/Cocoa? I'm changing and moving around a few files and need elevated privileges. Any code sample would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...

Why is a "GRANT USAGE" created the first time I grant a user privileges?

I'm new to the admin side of DBMS and was setting up a new database tonight (using MySQL) when I noticed this. After granting a user a privilege for the first time, another grant is created that looks like GRANT USAGE on *.* TO user IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD password The documentation says that the "USAGE" privilege means "no privileges,...

Column-level privileges vs. legacy application

Hello, I got a request to implement Column-level privileges, for example: GRANT UPDATE("column1") ON "TABLE" TO ROLE; But I found that client applications ( in Delphi+ODAC ) always emits SQL updates like: update TABLE set column1=:column1,column2=:column2,column3=:column3,...etc where id_c=:id_c; what causes Oracle to always thro...

PHP/PDO - Flush privileges

Hi, I'm doing some mysql server management with a script that flushes the MySQL users privileges when new privileges are added to a MySQL user. I'm using the PDO class to do my queries, but when I do a simple FLUSH PRIVILEGES; I get, for $connection->exec('FLUSH PRIVILEGES;'); and $connection->query('FLUSH PRIVILEGES;'); S...

Keeping my Java program secure

I have a Java project that uses the Bluecove Library, this library requires root privileges to do certain actions that I require in my project. I should note here that despite the project being Java based it is for Linux only. The project will have many functions that do not require root privileges, some of which will have to interact w...

Problems with VBScript - RegRead when running as a service

I am working on a script that runs under a custom installation utility, which is running as a service. To get the current user name the script executes this command: str_Acct_Name_Val = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Logon User Name" str_Acct_Name = RegRead(str_Acct_Name_Val) When I run the script from the c...

Run part of a c# program with admin privileges

Is there a way to request elevated privileges from the os, for "just a part" of a c# program? I'm writing a bunch of integrationtests using NUnit. One of the things I'm testing is if the application under test correctly connects to port 843. The test opens a listening socket at port 843, and then throws all sorts of responses to the app...

How to restrict SVN repository user account to one directory?

I have a SVN repository with a user in passwd: [users] Mark = 8d9"'8V2; Now i would like to restrict this user privilages (permissions) only to commit and update this directories: /CurrentProject/Printer /CurrentProject/Scanner /CurrentProject/Documentation How to acomplish this? ...

Insufficient privilege when creating an index in Oracle 11g

I am trying to create an index in Oracle, my ddl : create index OMD_DOCTEXT2_CTX on table_name(col_name) indextype is ctxsys.context local parameters ('datastore CTXSYS.FILE_DATASTORE filter ctxsys.null_filter lexer E2LEX wordlist E2WORDLIST stoplist E2STOP section group E2GROUP') parallel 4; I am getting error : ORA-29855: error oc...

How do I get column datatype in Oracle with PL-SQL with low privileges?

I have read only access to a few tables in an Oracle database. I need to get schema information on some of the columns but i'm having trouble doing so. I'd like to use something analogous to MS SQL's sp_help. I see the table i'm interested in listed in this query. SELECT * FROM ALL_TABLES When I run this query, Oracle "tells me table ...

Create a New user ORACLE with full access to an specific SCHEMA

How can create a New user in ORACLE with full access (alter, delete, select, inset, debug, etc) to an only one specific SCHEMA. ...

Automatic program update and Windows 7

Hi We have a suite of programs that check for new versions at startup, and then download new versions to run if required. This is obviously a problem in Windows 7, when it is locked down as a 'standard user', as they can't write to the c:\program files directory and below. Anyone seen a example of an application that gets around with is...