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Taking away a User's Read/Write/Execute Permission

So I have a user that is able to go in /etc and read files like httpd.conf. I would like to deny that user access to any critical locations such as /etc, /var and so on. What would be the best way ...
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Setting permissions with FTP

I'm having some issues setting up permissions for FTP. Read another thread on here regarding it, but I wasn't sure if it really matched what I needed. Essentially, right now I've got the client's FTP ...
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Properly Set Permission to /home/user folder for webserver

I'm currently setting up my own Linux server running CentOs 6. To test the security on my server I wrote a PHP script that acts like a sort of "navigator". I can go one directory up, open the files, ...
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CentOS file owner changed on editing

I have the following problem. On Unix server (CentOS 5.5) a number of users belonging to the same group have access to the same files (via ssh). After one particular user (let's say usera A) has ...
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security concern around adding cron user to web application group

I have a permissions issue on my CentOS 5.6 machine with regards to the cron user. On my test/staging environment my cron user (picco-cron) is a member of one group - picco-cron, as below: ...
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Remove noexec from Home folder

I trying to deploy an rails application into /home/app/myapp, but when application tries to connect to Mysql, I get this error: ** [out :: 192.168.110.50] ...
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umask is not working for directories

I have an odd problem with umask. My current setting is: $ umask 0022 $ umask -S u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx This only works for files though and not directories: $ touch abc $ ll abc 0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 user1 ...
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How do I repair a broken drupal install? [closed]

I'm trying to set up an unmanaged VPS to test uploading drupal. All I ever get is a 403 forbidden error when trying to access my URL. Because the VPS is unmanaged, I installed webmin and ...
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CentOS 6 VSFTP 553 Could not create file

I installed vsftpd yesterday on CentOS 6, however didn't get a chance to test it today. When I went to upload a test file it's coming back and giving me this error: 553 Could not create file After ...
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Owner & Group setting for OpenCart install on CentOS 6.3

I'm setting up a development server on a HP microserver with CentOS 6.3. I'm relatively new to Linux and have ran into some issues/confusion. I have the server fully setup/updated with yum. It's a ...
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SMB Mount To Windows Server Appears to Lock up. Any Ideas?

We are running CentOS 6.3 with all the latest updates. (Attempt to resolve this issue) The Server I am trying to connect to is a Windows Server 2008 R2 box. Though this applies to our old SBS'03 Box ...
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Root permission - username ALL=(ALL) ALL does not work

I'm a beginner. I'm trying to give my user root permissions, so I edited the sudoers file like this: black ALL=(ALL) ALL "black" is my username. But I still don't have root permissions, and ...
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How to maintain file ownership when running 'yum update'

I'm running CentOS 6.2 and installed nginx as root. After the install I changed the owner and group of the install to it's own user and group to keep thing a bit more secure. I logged in as root and ...
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Giving apache user same permissions as root only on specific folders

Not sure if this is possible but is there a way to grant the Apache user same level of permissions (ownership) as root only on specific folder(s). Why I need this: We have a CentOS 6.2 server with ...
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Recursively list files with file names, folder names and permission in CentOS

Is there anyway I can list files by typing a command in the shell which lists all the file names, folder names and their permissions in CentOS?
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/etc/crontab permissions

The /etc/crontab file has the permissions: -rw-r--r-- I understand that this file is for system cron jobs and other users should not have permission to modify it. The current permissions allows all ...
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“Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible” / Apache on CentOS 6

I've got a brand new CentOS 6 installation, which has a symlink in the document root to my development files: [root@localhost html]# ls -l total 4 -rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 18 20:16 index.html ...