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’ ...

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.

I was referring to the individual criteria that you need to meet. Those criteria are user authority or power. If you are an admin user, you can change almost anything in Windows. It includes the ...

There are times when you may copy files or folders to your system and cannot access them because the system does not allow you permission to them. In the case of folders, you may see a small "no entry ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is it possible to give a computer object NTFS permissions to read a file on a file server? If a user does not have access to the file, but the computer does, if a user sat at the specific computer, ...

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 ...

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.