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, ...

IT admins can save time and energy when changing Mac permissions by doing it via the command line or remotely via SSH. Learn how it’s done and what the notation means for command-line permissions.

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 ...

It doesn’t happen often, but either by malware attack or networking snafu (sometimes when computers are removed from a domain), you can lose permissions and ownership of your files. Microsoft Windows’ ...

Let us see how to do this in detail below. With the release of Windows 11/10/8, Microsoft has changed the way to Take Ownership a bit. On Windows 7, it is pretty much the same as what we saw in the ...

In this article, we explain step by step how to change permissions for a OneNote notebook on OneDrive. First of all, to begin with, you need to share locally stored notebooks on OneDrive before ...

The problem Since upgrading to Leopard, many users have been experiencing permissions problems. Some of these are connected with Group access to their files. A typical symptom is this: you select a ...

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 ...

Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.