You use the chmod command to set each of these permissions. To see what permissions have been set on a file or directory, we ...

You can check user groups in Linux with commands like groups, id, getent, and /etc/group to manage permissions easily.

One area that causes confusion is mount points permissions. It makes absolutely no difference what permissions and ownership are set on a mount point before a filesystem is mounted there, as it ...

Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have. Keeping your files private from anyone but those with superuser (root) access is easy on ...

Guys I just put up my first Linux file server I am using Cento 6.4 and I have integrated the server into active directory. However, I would like to talk about Samba permissions and Linux permissions.

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

In last month's issue, I talked about Linux permissions (see "It's Better to Ask Forgiveness..." in the May 2015 UpFront section). I could have covered SUID, GUID and sticky bit in the same article, ...