Ubuntu, like other Linux distributions, restricts access to files and system settings by default. Each user account has read and write access to its own files and read access to some system files.

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

When I started using Linux, the file system was nothing like the folder structures Id been used to on Windows. Ill admit that ...

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 ...

Viewing the content of files and examining access permissions and such are very different options. This post examines a number of ways to look at files on Linux. There are a number of ways to view ...

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 ...