Linux file permissions and ownership are not just a dry technical concept—they’re the foundation of system security and multi-user cooperation. Whether you're setting up a simple script or managing a ...

How to Change Permissions on CentOS. 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.

Sometimes you see more than just the ordinary r, w, x and - designations when looking at file permissions on Linux. How can you get a clearer view of what the uncommon charactrers are trying to ...

Ownership Files and directories in Linux are owned by a user and a group. Use chown to change the owner and chgrp to change the group. Special permissions setuid: Allows users to run an executable ...

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.

Hi all, Not sure what forum this should go in so I will start here. Our company is currently running Novell eDirectory. Our main file server is running Suse Linux 11 with the permissions managed ...