In light of the acrid responses to the intellectual property clause discussed in my previous question, I have to ask: why don't we have a programmers' union? There are many issues we face as employees, and we have very little ability to organize and negotiate. Could we band together with the writers', directors', or musicians' guilds, ...
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. ...
Hi all, Does anyone know what would be the minimum rights I would need to grant to a domain user account in order to run a windows service as that user? For simplicity, assume that the service does nothing over and above starting, stopping, and writing to the "Application" event log - i.e. no network access, no custom event logs etc. ...
How would you script extended rights in AD for a group to be able to unlock accounts. Need to know what the GUID is for this key? Is this possible to do, it is possible to script a user to be able to change the password using ACL. ...
I have always included clauses to transfer to my clients full author, ownership and use rights for all the source code, original images, original resources, etc. I develop/create for them. Of course, I retain author, ownership and use rights for my libraries and I usually do not include source code for those. If the client requires my l...
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...
Are personal tools that were created by an employee of a company owned by the employee if they were not commissioned by the company he worked for? The scenario is as follows: The employee has long since left the company The tools have spread throughout the departments of the company The company does not have the source for the tools a...
How can i list the rights that have been assigned to a domain users mailbox? e.g. The accounts that are specified in the "Mailbox Rights" section of the "Exchanged Advanced" tab of AD Users & Computers? ...
Running as an elevated admin on Vista SP1, my C# app tries to set the following rule with the following code. No error is produced, but neither is any change on the directory's ACL. What am I missing? public static void Main( string args[] ) { string dirPath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonAp...
I think it's a Bad Thing to do, but I was hoping for an authoritative perspective, or at least a broad sampling. I personally feel that a user owns his or her password and that a website or software system merely stores it as a service to them. The user trusts my site with their password, and though I own the site, I do not own the pas...
Assume we have c:\DirA that can be read by User1 only, and c:\DirB that can be written by User2 only. Both credentials are know. How can I copy files from DirA to DirB directly? ...
I am working on a contract (in USA) where I will become an employee of a company and provide them with a software solution for their operation. In the contract it is clearly indicated that I am building an application which all codes are owned by me and copyright is under my name and the employer is licensed to use the technology and has...
Hello! I'm in a FreeBSD-environment where we have one server that acts as a file-server. Now we have a problem that our SYS-admin says can not be fixed. All or files resides in a folder and we all have access to that folder and its subfolders and files. The problem is that once I,or another user in our group, creates a file or folder ...
Our software has data to store, so it also install MYSQL, a root user and a user with read only access if a third party compagny wants to install a backup solution for our data. But the third party wants to write data (a timestamp for backup purpose or something like that...) to another database. How can I change the user so it has read ...
The code below throws an exception when I try to access the site.Rootweb property. I suspect it is a rights issue, but no matter waht I do I cannot resolve it. Any ideas? using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration; namesp...
I am making a simple application that lets you quickly enter a shell command to be run. It works perfectly, however there is the problem of sudo commands. Currently, it detects a sudo command, and then I try and get it to bring up an authorization window for the user's password, exactly like you would see in Installer. Here's the code o...
I have a web application written in asp.net mvc. I have in MyApp.Web assembly the list of views and and the content files(images, scripts, css, and so on). In MyApp.WebBase I have the rest of fonctionality(Controllers, domain(entities, repositories, services)). Now the question is the following: I want to give to third party html coder a...
Let's say a developer writes code in some new language, which he then sends to a server. That server takes the code he wrote and turns it into c++ code which is subsequently compiled. From there, that binary package is sent back to the developer for distribution. Does the GPL license allow this? ...
Me and a couple buddies are working on a website that involves heavy user commenting, feedback, opinions, etc. We expect some posts to have content that we do not want. We are wondering: by running this website, what rights do we have? Is there some kind of guideline available? ...
in which database software / language is it possible to create a database accessible by multiple users except its two collumns to be accessed only by admin user. please give details how this database can be created. ...