A computer's file permission settings determine who is able to access its files and who can make changes to them. The owner or administrator of a Mac computer can specify the permissions for any file, ...

Control who can access files, search directories, and run scripts using the Linux's chmod command. This command modifies Linux file permissions, which look complicated at first glance but are actually ...

I'm relatively new to Windows server management. I'm trying to setup folder redirection with GPO. The file server that's getting redirected is in a LXD fedora container. To me this indicates a problem ...

Creating new files and folders gives them a default permissions set that can allow access to them from other account, which may be concerning at first glance. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

Check that your installed programs are staying in their respective lanes. Every time you install an application on Windows, you agree to give it permission to interact with certain parts of your ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Protect your privacy by keeping those permissions to a minimum. Protect your privacy by keeping those permissions ...

Because of its Unix heritage, Mac OS X is a true multi-user operating system from the ground up. Yet some people have used Mac OS X for many months without fully realizing what this means -- as the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You can decide what data your apps are allowed to access — and what they are not You can decide what data your ...

You don’t want to worry about an app unnecessarily having access to other parts of your phone, and you can control this by limiting its permissions. This means you can change settings that specify ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

With macOS Sequoia, Apple is requiring users to regularly reauthorize permissions for screen recording apps, but you may not have to do it quite as often with a change that's being implemented in ...