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 ...

The Linux operating system and all its variant distributions inherit a strict ownership model from Unix systems. This means that users must have specific permissions in order to manipulate particular ...

Is there a way to make a file "append only"? I've lost some logfiles that got overwritten when I wanted them just to be appended. I know with NTFS there are detailed permissions that can be set, but ...

Same deal with chown.<P>So, I've got a FAT32 partition served via Samba that I can see from my W2k box, but I can't copy files there because my common W2k/BSD login ID doesn't have r/w rights to the ...