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 ...

A file system provides attributes for files and directories on an operating system to help you determine which users on your computer can read, modify, or execute the contents of its files and ...

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 ...

Have you ever entered “ls –l” into a UNIX command line and seen something like this? Do you wonder what the “drwxr–r– “ means or why you can’t edit, open, or even read some files or directories? Well, ...

One of our older, more microsoft hating members of staff was having a discussion with the microft members of staff, saying how much permissions in the windows world aren't as advanced as unix file ...

Wired's newly-revamped Webmonkey site has an informative guide on seeing, changing, and understanding file permissions in Unix-like systems. These are the kind of operations and syntax that can often ...

If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect. File permissions and ...

Same deal with chown.<P>So, I've got a FAT32 partition served via Samba that I can see from my W2k box, but I can't copy files there because my common W2k/BSD login ID doesn't have r/w rights to the ...

There are a lot of hidden files and folders in macOS, which you can still access if you know the method. Here's how to see the invisible files. There's a lot of additional functionality beyond basic ...

It’s probably happened to you once or twice. You get a great gift, something you’ve wanted for months. And right after you open the box and the various parts spill onto the floor, you notice the Some ...