In the olden days of Unix, each file had an owner, a group, and a notion of “everybody else”. These entities could be granted read, write and/or execute permission — and that was as far as it went. If ...

Most Linux distributions are considerably more secure than Windows out of the box. There are many reasons for that, including the inherent user and file permissions structure, the addition of ...

Breaking out of the traditional owner/group/world way of managing file permissions, setfacl and getfacl provide a lot of flexibility and fair share of complexity. The standard way of assigning file ...