One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...

A computer's file permission settings determine who is able to access its files and who can make changes to them. The owner or administrator of a Mac computer can specify the permissions for any file, ...

Many times there will be odd names listed in the permissions field for files on their systems, and people have wondered about them and what they mean. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

Got the wife her first iMac, based on her experiences with her 3gs, her iPad...and the last three cheapass Laptops that all died premature deaths. About an hour into her initiation, it started acting ...

Unix permissions control who can read, write or execute a file. You can limit it to the owner of the file, the group that owns it or the entire world. For security reasons, files and directories ...

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 ...

Shares are named entry points in the Windows network directory that allow access to file systems and resources on other servers over the network, as if it were one large server. To allow a group of ...

There's one thing to keep in mind: Although the path to the file or folder is, by default, pointing to the folders on the server, the path is relative to the client to whom this Group Policy will be ...

How to turn on advance file permissions in Ubuntu Linux Here’s how you can enable advance file permission in Ubuntu Linux. 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Type in the following command, then hit Enter: ...

I have come across an interesting ( View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif ) and difficult problem with an nfs mount; maybe someone has an idea.<BR><BR>THe ...

The error message “Insufficient permission to access file” in VMware Workstation usually arises when the software does not have the necessary permissions to read ...