So I have a directory: www\ which looks as so: [eugene@server ~]$ ll total 0 drwxrwx—. 2 eugene eugene 57 Dec 10 16:04 www I want to make it so all new files created in this directory will belong to the group apache and have the permissions 770. So I did: [eugene@server ~]$ chgrp apache … Read more
This is as bad as it gets. The folder is named “Recovery “. Notice that space? That’s stopping me from renaming it. I don’t know how, in Windows 7 I set the ACL permissions of the parent folder to deny access to everyone but me and then I removed Windows 7 and installed Windows 8. … Read more
I’m trying to follow this guide to get a Samba DC going. However, I can’t seem to get past the step for adding a ‘test’ volume to test the ACLs on. My fstab is as follows: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use ‘blkid’ to print the universally unique identifier for a # … Read more
This website explains giving and removing the ACL. I have given the permission to another user, and now I want to remove it. In the screenshot below, the getfacl is used to show that another user has been given the r and x accesses. Then, I tried to use setfacl -x u:userID:rx /directory/for/the/file/ to remove … Read more
I unjoined my PC from a Windows domain and converted my profile from domain to local using ForensIT’s ProfWiz. Now some apps are giving me an “Access Denied” error on their ProgramData folders. These folders have an “inherited” ACE giving full control to my old domain account SID, but the parent folder has no corresponding … Read more
My parents have a wireless router (D-Link DIR-612) that is provided for by a local telecommunications company. Recently I’ve detected a phone’s MAC address that doesn’t belong to any of our devices who leeches off our WiFi. After fiddling around with the settings I found that the DIR-612 has a wireless access control list which … Read more
I would like to copy selected paths from source to destination directory including all metadata and ACLs. Is it possible using Windows CLI? robocopy src dst /E /COPY:DATSO /SECFIX /TIMFIX /sl /TS /FP is close, but its options to filter paths are very limited. It’s possible to provide only filenames with wildcards but not full … Read more
I’m trying to achieve this point: Disable Read Access to Removable Devices from Registry / GPO Enable Write Access to Removable Devices from Registry / GPO What I’ve tried so far: From gpedit.msc Then : gpupdate /force from cmd shell The Problem: Now trying to paste a test file on the Removable drive to test … Read more
We have several thousand folders and sub-folders in quite a complex folder structure which we are backing up. Several hundred of these sub-folders have been flagged during the backup process as failing due to access problems. On further investigation, the folder owners have been changed, denying the backup service account the privilege to read data … Read more
On an external hard drive I have a folder which seems to have a problem. When I use software on it I have some error message, the only program with can open this folder looks like to be the file explorer. I try all the option of chkdsk possible and it found no error. takeown … Read more
