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 ...

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 ...

I'm having an 'odd' problem in my recently installed Mandrake 9.1 file server (which is replacing my NT4 server box at home)<BR><BR>I've mounted a 80gig hard drive as /usr/titan, which I want ...

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 ...

Control who can access files, search directories, and run scripts using the Linux's chmod command. This command modifies Linux file permissions, which look complicated at first glance but are actually ...

Ubuntu, like other Linux distributions, restricts access to files and system settings by default. Each user account has read and write access to its own files and read access to some system files.

Linux 101: What does “sourcing a file” mean in Linux? Your email has been sent Jack Wallen explains the Linux source command by way of an example. Sourcing a file in Linux is a very important concept, ...