On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to ...

File permissions are core to almost everything you do on your Linux machine, from viewing a PDF to saving an image and running an app. The core model keeps things simple, but there are quite a few ...

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 often ...

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 ...

Linux has made it possible for admins and users to get fairly granular with file and folder permissions. This guide will examine both methods of setting permissions. Constantly Updated — The download ...

The default Ubuntu permissions are kinda silly, creating homedirs that are browsable by group and other by default. Not so much of an issue with purely local users (and can also be fixed via DIR_MODE ...

Set up zero-click CD ripping, get reports on user accounts with awk, and get started with the fine points of directory permissions. If you browse around any Linux forum, you’ll come upon a question ...

Viewing the content of files and examining access permissions and such are very different options. This post examines a number of ways to look at files on Linux. There are a number of ways to view ...

Is there a way to make a file "append only"? I've lost some logfiles that got overwritten when I wanted them just to be appended. I know with NTFS there are detailed permissions that can be set, but ...