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

You are not alone. In fact, I was pretty confused by file permissions for a long time, but it’s actually very simple! Here’s why you should care, and how to understand the permissions that keep your ...

The Linux operating system and all its variant distributions inherit a strict ownership model from Unix systems. This means that users must have specific permissions in order to manipulate particular ...

Unix permissions control who can read, write or execute a file. You can limit it to the owner of the file, the group that owns it or the entire world. For security reasons, files and directories ...

Breaking out of the traditional owner/group/world way of managing file permissions, setfacl and getfacl provide a lot of flexibility and fair share of complexity. The standard way of assigning file ...

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 ...

I am a somewhat newbie. As a regualr user, I can't even copy files from a floppy to my home directory, because permission is denied. I used linuxconf, and gave me root priveledges basically, but still ...