It doesn’t happen often, but either by malware attack or networking snafu (sometimes when computers are removed from a domain), you can lose permissions and ownership of your files. Microsoft Windows’ ...

As mentioned, Effective Permissions is a set of permissions for any user or user group to access the file or folder. Windows sets permissions for each file or folder object to secure the user’s ...

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 ...

IT admins can save time and energy when changing Mac permissions by doing it via the command line or remotely via SSH. Learn how it’s done and what the notation means for command-line permissions.

Windows Privacy Settings offer File System settings, which makes sure that unless allowed, Apps will not be able to access the File System, and user folders such as ...

The application data, or appdata, folders in Windows are used to store the settings files necessary for many programs to remember their settings and data and be able to run properly. Every user has ...

Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.