I once locked myself out of my files with a simple mistyped command. This was the first time I rendered my Linux installation unusable, and it was because I didn’t understand permissions. While I ...

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 ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...