Occasionally users can accidentally change the permissions settings on their boot disk to deny access to everyone. This can cause your Mac to not boot properly. If ...

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 ...

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A file system provides attributes for files and directories on an operating system to help you determine which users on your computer can read, modify, or execute the contents of its files and ...

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 ...

This subforum descriptor said for high end stuff which isn't what I'd consider this but it also mentioned administration which it is, so apologies if this isn't the right place. Title says it all. I ...

PDF permissions determine how users can interact with the file. Permission settings are an important consideration for a number of reasons, including file protection. You can adjust the PDF ...

Among the new features in Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the ability for users to control which phone resources and data an app has access to is perhaps one of the most exciting. Thanks to Granular App ...

When you are using a MacBook Pro to perform work for your company and the laptop has a Maxtor external hard drive connected to it, you can change the drive's permissions. For example, you may want to ...

Does it have to be in VBScript? Xcacls (from the Win2k resource kit) is a command-line utility used to set NTFS file permissions. I used to use cacls from the NT resource kit to do something similar ...