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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shares are named entry points in the Windows network directory that allow access to file systems and resources on other servers over the network, as if it were one large server. To allow a group of ...

November 28, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google You are not alone. In fact, I was pretty confused by file permissions for a long time, but it’s actually very ...

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".<BR><BR>Notice all the pesky ...