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 ...

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.

PDF permissions determine how users can interact with the file. Permission settings are an important consideration for a number of reasons, including file protection. You can adjust the PDF ...

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 ...

Active Directory (AD) is an excellent file and folder permissions, security, and management tool. It allows administrators to give permission to access specific folders to specific users. Simply put, ...

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

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 ...

We have a Windows 2003 server on a domain which has a file share. The file share has several levels of sub-folders. The person in charge of the file share has Full ...

There are five viewer permission levels with increasing levels of visibility. You’ll see this designation in the Share settings, under Who can access this video.: You can edit Share settings at the ...