You use the chmod command to set each of these permissions. To see what permissions have been set on a file or directory, we ...

You can check user groups in Linux with commands like groups, id, getent, and /etc/group to manage permissions easily.

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 ...

Linux has made it possible for admins and users to get fairly granular with file and folder permissions. This guide will examine both methods of setting permissions. Constantly Updated — The download ...

How to ensure all new user home directories are created without world-readable permissions in Linux Your email has been sent Out of the box, standard users can view other user's home directory. Here's ...

So I've got a number of Linux systems (mostly RHEL and CentOS 6.5, some *buntu) mounting some NFS exports from an Isilon box, which runs BSD. One subset of my users have complained about new files ...

Learn how to add, delete, and grant sudo privileges to users in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux.