The home folder permissions in OS X are set up in such a way as to provide you access to your files, but only allow other users to see certain shared folders in your account. Every now and then people ...

There are instances where users may change the permissions of files and folders on their computers, which can result in file access errors. Apple Discussions poster mlevack writes: "After a Hard Drive ...

I'm trying to tweak this one folder permission for a user. On the parent folder, I gave him "List Folders" permission and the particular sub folder gave him the "read,write" permission. I don't want ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

I'm playing around with NTFS permissions here. I'm looking to restrict permissions so that users only see what they have access to.<BR><BR>For example, should an external financial auditor come in, I ...

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 ...