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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Because of its Unix heritage, Mac OS X is a true multi-user operating system from the ground up. Yet some people have used Mac OS X for many months without fully realizing what this means -- as the ...

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 six computers and use a Mac mini as a fileserver with sharing set up on it. About every week some of the files become read-only for some of the users. She also asks: When I open the files on ...

Got the wife her first iMac, based on her experiences with her 3gs, her iPad...and the last three cheapass Laptops that all died premature deaths. About an hour into her initiation, it started acting ...

A recently disclosed vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer, yet to receive a fix from Microsoft, has received a micropatch that denies remote attackers the possibility to exfiltrate local files ...

How to turn on advance file permissions in Ubuntu Linux Here’s how you can enable advance file permission in Ubuntu Linux. 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Type in the following command, then hit Enter: ...

Hi fellas, here is my bug of the day:<BR><BR>Any file on a mounted vfat drive (floppy or a FAT32 partition in the same hd) gets its permissions changed to "-rwxr-xr-x ...