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 ...

Control who can access files, search directories, and run scripts using the Linux's chmod command. This command modifies Linux file permissions, which look complicated at first glance but are actually ...

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.

When you are using a MacBook Pro to perform work for your company and the laptop has a Maxtor external hard drive connected to it, you can change the drive's permissions. For example, you may want to ...

OK, so I'm married and my wife is not the whiz bang I am on PC matters. I am currently converting my entire cd collection to mp3's via iTunes which allows us all sorts of freedom to listen to our ...

Android 10 introduced a ton of new features but one of the most important features was the changes to the permission system. Permissions have come a long way on Android and it’s a lot better now than ...

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 ...

If the people in your Zoom call can’t hear or see you, don’t panic — just check your OS and browser settings. If the people in your Zoom call can’t hear or see you, don’t panic — just check your OS ...

What’s the best way to manage user accounts on a Mac? If you share your Mac with other people in your household or office, you’ll want to set up separate user accounts for each person. Each user can ...

A few weeks ago, I answered a reader question about “inherited permissions,” or how to deal with a shared folder that multiple people use via file serving on a regular Mac, not one running macOS ...