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 ...

Linux provides a number of handy commands for managing file permissions, understanding who has access to the files and checking on file content. There’s a lot more to working with files on Linux than ...

A man page is a manual page dedicated to a specific command and every Linux distribution includes them. Say, for example, you wanted to learn about the chmod command. You could either run a Google ...

An interesting question was posed recently in a discussion group. What would you do if the chmod command on a system that you manage lost its execute permissions? Well, you wouldn’t exactly just chmod ...

Linux is a multi-user environment, which means more than one user can use the system at one time. Granted, that mostly takes the form of console access (via SSH), because you can't easily have two ...

While it may seem antiquated in this day and age of modern operating systems, the command line remains the most flexible and powerful way to perform tasks in Linux. The full guide to the Linux command ...