A lthough its possible to use Windows and Linux interchangeably for multiple tasks, the two operating systems vary on ...

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 ...

How to Give All Permissions in Ubuntu. 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 ...

Sometimes you see more than just the ordinary r, w, x and - designations when looking at file permissions on Linux. How can you get a clearer view of what the uncommon charactrers are trying to ...

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

This is probably in the wiki - but there seems to be some confusion about permissions, so I'll briefly describe them.There are four numbers that have have to do with permissions - the first is a ...

For all UNIX systems (Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD—which is what FreeNAS uses), permissions work in generally the same way. Each file and folder has an owner and a group assigned to it, which ...

Figuring out the Linux file system took some time, but once it clicked, everything got way easier. Now, moving around, managing files, and setting permissions feels second nature.

How to ensure all new user home directories are created without world-readable permissions in Linux Your email has been sent Out of the box, standard users can view other user's home directory ...

But you would be wrong. The actual Drop Box UNIX permissions settings for Everyone are <-wx>. This can be viewed from Terminal (as we describe in a moment).