Permissions have two parts: an action and a set of users. The three actions—read, write, and execute—define what can be done ...

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 ...

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 ...

Batch changing your file permissions can save a great deal of time, since you don't have to individually select files to determine who can access or view them. You can change permissions for files in ...

NTFS permissions not inherited by a file copied to a folder in Windows XP Pro, sp3 on server 2003 AD domain. Simple File Sharing being used on the workstation.<BR><BR>I just worked on an odd issue at ...

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 ...

Sometimes while trying to tweak your system configurations an extra mile, we end up changing the permissions for certain system files and remove the inbuilt TrustedInstaller account as an integral ...

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 ...

You can edit the hosts file with any text editor. There are a variety available, but both Windows 10 and 11 come with Notepad ...

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 ...