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 ...

User accounts can be assigned to one or more groups on Linux. You can configure file permissions and other privileges by ...

One area that causes confusion is mount points permissions. It makes absolutely no difference what permissions and ownership are set on a mount point before a filesystem is mounted there, as it ...

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 ...

As someone who has traveled the bug-riddled Linux road countless times, let me tell you that invoking root-level access for ...

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, ...

When using Linux, you will see words such as 'shell', 'grep', and 'process'. Engineer Carl Riis has learned the meaning and mechanism of such basic Linux terms from various websites, and has released ...