You use the chmod command to set each of these permissions. To see what permissions have been set on a file or directory, we can use ls command options. We can use the -l (long format) option to have ...

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

Linux provides a number of handy commands for managing file permissions, understanding who has access to the files and checking on file content. There’s a lot more to working with files on Linux than ...

I deal a lot with hdds that have been extracted from old laptops and PC. Often, for the data to be accessed on Win 7 etc. Ownership has to be changed. This can be a tedious process. With MAC there are ...

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 ...