Is there a way to prevent a user who has administrator privileges from accessing the files of another user with admin privileges in Windows Server 2008?
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My surface tablet is shared with a friend. She uses a separate account, with admin rights.  Being an admin, she is able to gain access to all my files. Even my OneDrive files.   I guess I could follow  to prevent this (it basically states that you'll need to disable access for the targeted administrator), but the same scenario would be present if I were to create another administrator account.  You could say "don't make her administrator", but I don't want to mess with her personal files as well.  Somehow this feels as a security flaw... or am I mistaken?  Is there any way to protect private files from "administrator eyes" by default?
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I have used deluser without the parameter --remove-all-files:  $ deluser 'user'   Is there a way other than rm -r /home/user to remove all files owned by a user now (since I have already executed deluser)?
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Is there a way to back up and restore file ownership and permissions (the things that can be changed with chown and chmod)?  You can do this .  What about access control lists?
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I have a /data folder (actually a partition) for all data that should be accessible by all users (in this case family members). We all have individual user accounts and are often all logged in at any time on this one PC.  How can I set up permissions so that we all retain access to files there no matter who creates them, including new folders? If I create a folder it gets my user and group, so nobody else can write to it.
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I've just heard of this bug "Dirty COW" that allows any user with read access to files to also write to them and gain administrative access. How do I protect against this bug?
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I'm using Windows Home Server 2011 and connecting to it with various Windows 7 version clients.  Suppose I have a shared directory (or server folder) mydir on my WHS box which contains a subdirectory private.  When a given client lists the contents of mydir, is it possible to instruct WHS to display private only if the given user is authorized?  It's easy enough to prevent access to private but I don't even want it listed.  Note that marking the directory as hidden is not at all what I want to do since that would also force an authorized user to change the viewing state of hidden directoies and files and could be easily undermined by anyone that can list the contents of mydir.
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I have a RAID10 array mounted on Ubuntu Server 12.04. I have created a few folders within the mount point and want the following functionality.  There will be 4 users, 3 of them are windows users: 'one' 'two' &amp; 'three'. 'four' is a media streamer that only needs to access the MEDIA share. One Two and Three need to have full access to the media share and their own personal shares (for documents) which no other users but them can access.  Currently, User Four works perfectly (Has full access to the MEDIA folder and can't access folders owned by other users). The problem is, when logged in as the other user, I can't access either share; (tried using valid users =  and using chmod to add permissions to no avail).  TL;DR: I need to know how to configure Samba properly to restrict access to certain shares for certain users and allow all of them to access one communal folder (all files on a RAID10 mount).
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I love Linux and everything she stands for; however, unfortunately I grew up with Windows. Thusly so I have learned very bad practices (such as NT Authority will protect me). I have several Linux VPS's for personal and educational uses and I manage all of them from the command line. Through the management of these servers I have learned very painful lessons of the power of the Root user. Such as:   rm -d -R /* chown www-user:www-user -R /* Etc.    I've only removed my root directory twice, but just last week I changed the permission of the whole drive - effectively locking the Root out.   Now I know that I should never be logged in as Root, but most of the time I have to deal with files that only the Root owns so I sudo and run the command.   So my question is, is there a way to prompt the user (who is root, or sudo'ed) when a potentially hazardous command is executed, so the user may rethink their decision? Possibly through scripts in Bash, or a different sudo wrapper.   Or (I ask this hopefully, and very simplified) is there a way to set up permissions where instead of a two tier user system (Root user, regular user) there is a three tier system like in Windows (NT Authority, Administrator, other User). Basically is there a way to keep the ability of System administration, but restrict access to some system files.
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On Windows 7.  I have a lot of hard drives which are used for storage.   When launching certain programs (e.g. some games, Photoshop, etc.) the program will automatically try to query/access all of the system's drives for whatever reason (presumably to enumerate them, see how much free space is on them, or access some other property of them).  This means that every time I launch these programs all of my drives have to (slowly!) spin-up even though no files on the drive are actually being used.  This is extremely annoying.  So is there a way I can restrict access to these hard drives, and/or make them invisible to certain programs?
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I'm setting up ACL permissions in CENTOS.  I'm getting close to the structure that I have in mind however one piece is missing for completing the puzzle.  Is there any way to HIDE a file/directory from a specific user/group?  I'm not talking about not being able to read, change dir to it. I want to completely hide it from the specific user/group (not to show up on ls -la).
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I have just got a new laptop with Microsoft Windows 10. My previous laptop ran Windows 7.  I'm trying to get applications to "run as administrator" by default, so that I'm not constantly having trouble saving/overwriting files, etc. The priority here is to be able to modify my own files on an external hard drive; I wouldn't have expected that I'd have to do anything special to be able to do this. My user account on the laptop is an "Administrator" account, and I have set the User Account Control setting to "Never notify". I thought that this would achieve the effect I want (as also suggested in  in relation to Windows 7).  Here's a screenshot of my setting to disable UAC in Windows 10:   Still, Notepad++ (for one) is not automatically starting with administrative rights. What else do I need to do, or what am I overlooking?  Thanks  PS. I'm aware that what I'm trying to do is a security risk, but that's not the point of this question; whether I should or should not do something is different to whether I can or cannot do something.
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I have an external hard drive, changed some security settings of files, and now I am not able to access them in my other system. I am an admin in this system.  Is there any tool that can reset all of the security settings of all contents to default?
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I'm running Windows Vista, which is installed on my primary drive.  I have a second hard drive installed, which used to host my Windows XP install, and I'm trying to delete the Documents folder, but I don't have permissions to do so.  Is there a way I can reset the permissions on all subfolders of my second drive?
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Is there any way to find who used Dedicated Admin Connection?   Not active connection but the previous one which is already closed?
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Quick question: I have a situation where I need to let multiple people on different PCs log into one server 2008 machine as administrator simultaneously over remote desktop. I have the CALs for it, it's just not set up correctly. When one user tries to log in, it boots the other out. What I need is to present to them a different session, just each as logged in as admin. Sorry for the slightly rambling post, I'm new here. Thanks!
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I need to hide the D: drive for specified users on Windows 7. How can I do that?
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Is there an ability to not allow sudoers view your folder (only you and root can access folder)?