Batch changing your file permissions can save a great deal of time, since you don't have to individually select files to determine who can access or view them. You can change permissions for files in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Many a time, you need to change the ownership of a file or folder to another user. There can be many reasons to do that — transferring files to another user, an old account is removed, and all files ...

The Get Info window’s Locked option prevents changes on a single Mac, and modifies the item’s Finder icon. Macworld reader Jeff noted that when he uses the Locked option, files stored in iCloud Drive ...

Sometimes while trying to tweak your system configurations an extra mile, we end up changing the permissions for certain system files and remove the inbuilt TrustedInstaller account as an integral ...