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  2. sudo - Wikipedia

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    After authentication, and if the configuration file permits the user access, the system invokes the requested command. sudo retains the user's invocation rights through a grace period (typically 5 minutes) per pseudo terminal, allowing the user to execute several successive commands as the requested user without having to provide a password again.

  3. setuid - Wikipedia

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    The Unix and Linux access rights flags setuid and setgid (short for set user identity and set group identity) [1] allow users to run an executable with the file system permissions of the executable's owner or group respectively and to change behaviour in directories. They are often used to allow users on a computer system to run programs with ...

  4. Amazon Machine Image - Wikipedia

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    Launch permissions that control which AWS accounts can use the AMI to launch instances; A block device mapping that specifies the volumes to attach to the instance when it's launched; The AMI filesystem is compressed, encrypted, signed, split into a series of 10 MB chunks and uploaded into Amazon S3 for storage. An XML manifest file stores ...

  5. File-system permissions - Wikipedia

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    This permission must be set for executable programs, in order to allow the operating system to run them. When set for a directory, the execute permission is interpreted as the search permission: it grants the ability to access file contents and meta-information if its name is known, but not list files inside the directory, unless read is set also.

  6. Linux namespaces - Wikipedia

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    A user with administrative privileges in the appropriate user namespace will be allowed to perform administrative actions within that other namespace type. For example, if a process has administrative permission to change the IP address of a network interface, it may do so as long as its own user namespace is the same as (or ancestor of) the ...

  7. ownCloud - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud

    Enterprise customers have access to apps with additional functionality, which are intended for organizations with more than 500 users. An Enterprise subscription includes support services. Commercial features include end-to-end encryption , ransomware and antivirus protection, branding, document classification, and single sign-on via OpenID.

  8. Time-of-check to time-of-use - Wikipedia

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    Here, access is intended to check whether the real user who executed the setuid program would normally be allowed to write the file (i.e., access checks the real userid rather than effective userid). This race condition is vulnerable to an attack:

  9. Principle of least privilege - Wikipedia

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    In information security, computer science, and other fields, the principle of least privilege (PoLP), also known as the principle of minimal privilege (PoMP) or the principle of least authority (PoLA), requires that in a particular abstraction layer of a computing environment, every module (such as a process, a user, or a program, depending on the subject) must be able to access only the ...