A computer's file permission settings determine who is able to access its files and who can make changes to them. The owner or administrator of a Mac computer can specify the permissions for any file, ...

Just as your office file cabinets should be off-limits to competitors and snoops, access to the files on your company's computers should be restricted as well. The CentOS operating system enables you ...

Many times there will be odd names listed in the permissions field for files on their systems, and people have wondered about them and what they mean. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...

Many a time, you need to change the ownership of a file or folder to another user. There can be many reasons to do that — transferring files to another user, an old account is removed, and all files ...

Understanding file and folder permissions: Understanding file and folder permissions in Linux is useful if you want to share with other users that have access to the system. In Linux, all files and ...

It doesn’t happen often, but either by malware attack or networking snafu (sometimes when computers are removed from a domain), you can lose permissions and ownership of your files. Microsoft Windows’ ...

Unix permissions control who can read, write or execute a file. You can limit it to the owner of the file, the group that owns it or the entire world. For security reasons, files and directories ...

I have an image uploader on my site and the folder it uploads any file to is chmoded 777. Now when I upload a file, the permissions on that file change to 600 for some reason and nobosy can view it.