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

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 by Novell. We ...

This is probably in the wiki - but there seems to be some confusion about permissions, so I'll briefly describe them.<BR><BR>There are four numbers that have have to do with permissions - the first is ...

One area that causes confusion is mount points permissions. It makes absolutely no difference what permissions and ownership are set on a mount point before a filesystem is mounted there, as it ...

Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have. Keeping your files private from anyone but those with superuser (root) access is easy on ...

In last month's issue, I talked about Linux permissions (see "It's Better to Ask Forgiveness..." in the May 2015 UpFront section). I could have covered SUID, GUID and sticky bit in the same article, ...

ZDNET's key takeaways There are certain Linux commands I consider essential.They range from networking, troubleshooting, and ...