rights-management

Latex=>PDF Rights management

Im currently writing my bachelor thesis with latex and using TexnicCenter. I want to be able to send my generated pdf file to people and they should be able to write comments. It seems like commenting is not allowed by default, how do I change this? I am using straight to PDF with pdflatex and acrobat reader 9 to read and comment on the...

Is there a DRM scheme that works?

We help our clients to manage and publish their media online - images, video, audio, whatever. They always ask my boss whether they can stop users from copying their media, and he asks me, and I always tell him the same thing: no. If the users can view the media, then a sufficiently determined user will always be able to make a copy. ...

User Access Checking for Rights on Particular Database Objects or Records

I'm having a friendly debate with a developer about a situation where users are logging in and accessing documents in a web application. When we load the document for the user to view, we have the userID in session and the documentID that may be passed via QueryString. To prevent the user from modifying the documentID on the QueryString...

How can I use Performance Counter in w2k8

Hello Problem: I can add+use performance counters in w2k8 with normal user privileges. If I try to create or access a Process performance counter, i get a message that the counter does not exist. Same thing can be tried out in a powershell, a message appears that the counter does not exist. If I do the same thing as Administrator ac...

How should I be implementing my ACL in a web application?

I've been thinking about the web app I'm about to begin developing and wondering whether my usual approach could be improved. In my last few apps I've created a table (see below) of roles (such as CREATE POST, EDIT POST etc.) which each have a bitfield applied to them so I can simply assign a user certain rights in registration and chec...

How do I grant SeCreateSymbolicLink on Windows Vista Home edition

I want to be able to use mklink to create symbolic links on my Windows Vista Home edition computer. However, I must grant SeCreateSymbolicLink before mklink will be able to function on Vista Home edition (by default the right is revoked). Home edition provides no UI or tool facility to grant/revoke discreet rights. A Wikipedia link on...

Information Rights Management (IRM) & SharePoint - can the system administrators view the content of a protected file?

We are considering deploying a MOSS site for our HR department but there is some concern over the system administrators being able to access the highly confidential material regarding performance and salaries. It appears that IRM is the silver bullet we are looking for providing the MOSS System Administrators CAN NOT open the documents ...

Best approach for authorisation rules

I'm wonder about best approach of implementation auth. rules in Client-Server app using Business Objects. I've noticed common tactic is: - on DB side: implement one role for application, used for all app's users - definition users right and roles and assign users to proper group - Client side: add to Business Object's getters/setters r...

Securing Office web content from redistribution without RMS

I’m looking for a mechanism that can be used to distribute Microsoft Office content over the web without using Rights Managements Services whilst minimising the ability for it to be printed or redistributed. I know any solution is always going to be a compromise and never entirely secure but I’d be interested in any mechanisms which incr...

windows rights management client for windows 7

can you guys help me out finding windows rights management services client for windows 7 for 64 bit OS thanks ...

How to unzip a folder and delete zipped original? (PHP)

I am creating something like eazy installer\setuper for my CMS. When user downloads .zip with my CMS and unpacks it into some folder on his php server he sees a file - install.php and a zip folder named - Contents.zip I need some php function to extract files from that Contents.zip zip file and than delete that file. (if it is possible I...

how to download folder from some ftp server into your server home directory and give to that directory rights?

how to download folder from some ftp server into your server home directory and give to that directory rights? (like all files in this directoy have all or non rights...) not using special libs if it is possible... how to do such thing? ...

Git deny users to create tags

Hello Here is a question about git repo management... Is it possible to configure git repo to allow TAG creation only for some users? And similar question for branch: is it possible to configure list of user, who are able to modify particular branch? The idea for all this config is: there is git repo with MANY developers, and we want ...

Windows 7 Service differences between local system and local service

Hi, I have a rather complicated toolchain so prepare for a lengthy post until getting to the problem: I managed to get PDFCreator and a virtual PDF creating printer under Windows 7 running in server mode as a service. Next step in the process is PDFCreator calling a VBScript after the PDF is created. The script uploads the PDF to our s...

setting documents folder as network public folder from cmd in windows

trying to create a batch file for setting the user documents folder in windows so that it is accessible from the network like the public folder is by default, pretty much making it shared with everybody Cant figure out the synthax for it though. So far tried messing with Cacls but without any luck. Testing it on vista/7 ...