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 ...

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 ...

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.

One of the ways to safeguard personal data in your Samsung device is by making sure that you only allow app permissions when necessary. Permissions is Android’s way of granting an app access to ...

App Permissions usually pop up the first time you open a recently downloaded application on your phone. Such feature is designed in accordance to every end-user’s privacy and security when using a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I swear I've done this before but I can't remember the command. The Windows 2003 doc's only list the MMC and Windows Explorer as methods to set share-level permissions. I have found some older NT4 ...