Ubuntu, like other Linux distributions, restricts access to files and system settings by default. Each user account has read and write access to its own files and read access to some system files.

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 ...

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

If you get You don’t currently have permission to access this folder message & are unable to access files or folders due to permission issues, then this post shows how to troubleshoot File and Folder ...

There's one thing to keep in mind: Although the path to the file or folder is, by default, pointing to the folders on the server, the path is relative to the client to whom this Group Policy will be ...

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 ...

Several readers have noted an issue where permissions for files and folders created through AFP (Apple filesharing protocol) under Mac OS X 10.4.x. are not correct. Under Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther), ...

macOS is Unix at its heart, and Unix thrives on “ownership” and “permissions.” These are attributes attached to every file and folder that describe which users and groups have the right to perform ...

I need all HTML files to be "executable" within a certain directory, but I'm not sure if this is possible/how to do it/dumb.<BR><BR>(I just need to run a very simple PHP "include" call on all of these ...

This is probably a boneheaded stupid question but I can't seem to get executable permisions working with Windows 2000 server Group policy.<BR><BR>I've set some folder permissions sucessfully under the ...