November 28, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google You are not alone. In fact, I was pretty confused by file permissions for a long time, but it’s actually very ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X, a $10 electronic book available for download from TidBits Electronic Publishing. The 90-page ebook ...

Wired's newly-revamped Webmonkey site has an informative guide on seeing, changing, and understanding file permissions in Unix-like systems. These are the kind of operations and syntax that can often ...

The permissions structure in OS X helps prevent inadvertent file access, and a permissions repair ensures the integrity of this structure. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

The command line may not be the most intuitive way to control your Mac, but often it’s the fastest—especially when it comes to permissions. These behind-the-scenes settings determine whether you’re ...

Reports of permissions problems have been ongoing since people started upgrading to Leopard. Symptoms Permissions have to do with the ability of certain users to make certain kinds of change. Thus, if ...