Active Directory (AD) is an excellent file and folder permissions, security, and management tool. It allows administrators to give permission to access specific folders to specific users. Simply put, ...

Every file and folder on Windows 11/10 has permission attributes. It gives you the authority to edit, read, write, execute, and modify it. It is relatively easy to change file and folder permissions ...

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 ...

While in newer versions of Windows, Microsoft offers Windows Media Center as a program, for the XP generation. it produced a separate operating system, Windows XP Media Center Edition. This edition of ...

Android 10 introduced a ton of new features but one of the most important features was the changes to the permission system. Permissions have come a long way on Android and it’s a lot better now than ...

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 ...

As companies move off Windows 7 and Server 2008, they run the risk of leaving dangerous access permissions behind. Here's how to find them. Ransomware often leverages a cracked administrator or local ...

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 ...

The burdens of managing security permissions are rarely seen as exciting, but they're an essential duty to which we systems administrators are sworn to carry out. In this tip, I'll talk about how you ...

What’s the best way to manage user accounts on a Mac? If you share your Mac with other people in your household or office, you’ll want to set up separate user accounts for each person. Each user can ...