How can one dry run a git push to check whether one has write permissions to a remote?

Shawn Pierce wrote the following about git push –dry-run: A –dry-run doesn’t send the commands the client would use from client to server, so the server can’t tell the client if it would accept them or not. The entire –dry-run thing is read-only at the remote: it checks whether the remote has changes that you … Read more

postgresql database owner can’t access database – “No relations found.”

Perhaps the schema permissions for the public schema got mangled. What is the output of \dn+ on both sites? The output should look like this: List of schemas Name | Owner | Access privileges | Description ——–+———-+———————-+———————— public | postgres | postgres=UC/postgres | standard public schema : =UC/postgres (1 row) If the =UC/postgres part is … Read more

Permission Denial: this requires android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL

According to this answer: android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL is a signature level permission. Your app will not be able to use it until and unless it has the same signature as the system. Which is not something you can achieve unless you either are the creator or the system build, or collaborating with them such that they are … Read more

How can I get the Unix permission mask from a file? [duplicate]

os.stat is a wrapper around the stat(2) system call interface. >>> import os >>> from stat import * >>> os.stat(“test.txt”) # returns 10-tupel, you really want the 0th element … posix.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=57197013, \ st_dev=234881026L, st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=20, st_size=0, \ st_atime=1300354697, st_mtime=1300354697, st_ctime=1300354697) >>> os.stat(“test.txt”)[ST_MODE] # this is an int, but we like octal … 33188 … Read more

What’s the difference between staff, admin, superuser in django?

I take this from Django Documentation: One of the most powerful parts of Django is the automatic admin interface. Best thing is that you can customise it easily. If logged in as a superuser, you have access to create, edit, and delete any object (models). You can create staff user using staff flag. The “staff” … Read more

iOS 10 – Changes in asking permissions of Camera, microphone and Photo Library causing application to crash

[UPDATED privacy keys list to iOS 13 – see below] There is a list of all Cocoa Keys that you can specify in your Info.plist file: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/General/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/CocoaKeys.html (Xcode: Target -> Info -> Custom iOS Target Properties) iOS already required permissions to access microphone, camera, and media library earlier (iOS 6, iOS 7), but since iOS … Read more