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 ...

Does changing the NTFS permissions on a folder of files mark the entire subdirectory tree as "changed" as far as my backup software is concerned? i.e. archive bit set? I just did a permissions change ...

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.

When you add a new employee to your network, the network administrator establishes a user account and assigns an employee to one or more groups to make it easier to share files within a workgroup or ...

New Technology File System (NTFS) permissions are available on every file, folder, registry key, printer, and Active Directory object. First introduced with Windows NT to replace the File Allocation ...

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’ ...

Regarding yesterday's item titled "Mac OS X Server: remote server admin unable to change permissions?," Greg Torok replies: "I have seen similar symptoms on my Mac OS X Server, but I believe the ...

I'd like to do the following: Change all permissions for all existing users' home folders to grant their account full control and administrators full control, everything else removed. I've looked ...

As explained above, this error usually occurs due to permission issues. But sometimes, antivirus software can also prevent you from deleting or modifying a file on ...