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 ...

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 ...

Viewing the content of files and examining access permissions and such are very different options. This post examines a number of ways to look at files on Linux. There are a number of ways to view ...

Set up zero-click CD ripping, get reports on user accounts with awk, and get started with the fine points of directory permissions. If you browse around any Linux forum, you’ll come upon a question ...

Larry Prall has some advice on OS X problems that are the result of privilege settings, and a few fixes for when things go wrong. He writes: "A significant percentage of the problems people have with ...

The execute bit determines whether or not permission is granted to run a file as a program or script. Setting the execute bit ...

The default Ubuntu permissions are kinda silly, creating homedirs that are browsable by group and other by default. Not so much of an issue with purely local users (and can also be fixed via DIR_MODE ...