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Access rights escalation requiring multiple sysadmin authorisation
I was just wondering if there is a way to give a user root access escalation on a *nix system, kind of like sudo, but which requires more than one sysadmin authorisation. I am thinking of something...
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How to allow a set of users access to a sub site in SharePoint but not the...
We have a publicly addressable MOSS 2007 site which is only accessable to users with windows accounts. Off the root Site collection, we have a series of sub sites: http://moss http://moss/depts/...
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Apache, SVN and Active Directory: how to avoid duplicate configuration?
I’m trying to linking the SVN hosted on Apache on a Windows Server 2008 to the Active Directory. I understood what do I need to do to manage the groups of users on repository level: <Location...
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What software do you use for storing application authorizations?
We are a medium sized company with a Windows 2003 network, using Active Directory for our users (about 100) and computers (about 50). We also have a small number of applications that need their own...
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LDAP: entries for services?
(Apologies if I’ve got the terminology wrong, I’m fairly new to LDAP) I am setting up a local LDAP server (Apache Directory Server) with the following structure: o={my organization name}...
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How do you force an update to a user’s group membership in Windows 7?
I am writing a web application that uses .NET Windows Authentication and relies on a user’s group membership to Authorize them to various areas of the website. Right now I’m on a dev machine that IS...
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Eucalyptus Walrus Connection Problems
I’m beginning with Eucalyptus, with some S3 and EC2 background. I have an app for which I use a personal library to interface with S3 and store/retrieve files from there. Now I want to make my app...
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Working out some quirks of a master SSH server
I am starting a web hosting company and there are a few details that I have yet to figure out, one of them being some sort of SSH VPN to connect to our servers running CentOS 6 with cPanel. So this is...
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How to debug Samba authorization (authentication) procedure
I’m running a small home network linux-based server which acts as an internet router, torrent client and file server. I have problems connecting Windows clients to server Samba shares (‘user name or...
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Subversion all or nothing access to repo tree
I’m having some problems setting up access to my Subversion repositories on a Linux server. The problem is that I can only seem to get an all-or-nothing structure going. Either everyone gets read...
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