ITworld.com – If you have tried to give away any files lately on any of your Unix systems (i.e., without first becoming root), you may have been surprised to learn that you can’t. On most Unix systems ...

I occasionally come across examples using a comma instead of colon to separate user and group, as in "chown user.group file". But this doesn't seem to work on all platforms. Is there any other ...

Today’s column is another troubleshooting tale – a real story from the pits of systems administration. And, although the solution to the particular problem encountered turned out to be trivial, the ...

usually, on a local system, changing a folder's owner is easy:<BR><BR>examples<BR><BR>chown -R user:group folder<BR><BR>or<BR>chown -R user folder<BR><BR><BR>How do I do it on an OS X server that is ...