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Safely generate a non-log file within an application server
How does one go about safely write a temporary file to a location within an application server that is publicly accessible?
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Are file permissions set in Unix/Linux effective in Windows or Any other OS?
Consider some files and folder in Unix/Linux OS which are configured for only read access by root, if the hard drive stolen, and used in Windows Environment, are these permissions are still effective?
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Could browsers improve security of stored passwords by using setuid?
On Unix-esque systems, Mozilla Firefox stores a users' preferences, web history and stored passwords in a set of files that are readible and writeable by that particular user.
This makes sense: when ...
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Why should every file have a user and a group?
I've been reading in most hardening guides for linux, that you should check for files and directories without valid user or valid group. What I can't find, is how this could be used for an attack, or ...
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Which Domain Administrator created file X on a Windows 2008 R2-based server?
Someone created a file (web.config) in a location that basically caused IIS to not work. Is there any way I can determine who created this file?
The creator/owner says "Domain Administrators".
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