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 ...

Maybe don’t go with the defaults.

I'm having an 'odd' problem in my recently installed Mandrake 9.1 file server (which is replacing my NT4 server box at home)<BR><BR>I've mounted a 80gig hard drive as /usr/titan, which I want ...

Not sure what forum this should go in so I will start here. Our company is currently running Novell eDirectory. Our main file server is running Suse Linux 11 with the permissions managed by Novell. We ...

Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have. Keeping your files private from anyone but those with superuser (root) access is easy on ...

Once you separate the roles of OS and personal data, the whole system starts to feel more deliberate.

In last month's issue, I talked about Linux permissions (see "It's Better to Ask Forgiveness..." in the May 2015 UpFront section). I could have covered SUID, GUID and sticky bit in the same article, ...