Active Directory (AD) is an excellent file and folder permissions, security, and management tool. It allows administrators to give permission to access specific folders to specific users. Simply put, ...

Apple and others, like Google, LinkedIn, and Path, now know that privacy is synonymous with users’ information, and the iDevice-maker is finally attempting to rights its wrongs by requiring user ...

The Supreme Court will hear two cases this term about whether police can search the contents of a mobile device without a warrant. The legal boundaries of technology and privacy have become more ...

Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is a co-founder and designer at Cluster, a web and mobile app which enables users to create private social networks around interests and experiences. Brenden previously ...

QuickBooks applications support multiple users. The administrator can access any file and perform any function, but you can customize permissions for other users to limit their actions. For example, ...

Security is essential, and it is not just that other users can access the files, but programs you install on the computer also get the same access. The good news is that fixing the permissions to ...

I need to allow a particular user account the ability to run "du -sh" on a specific target folder (/home/ftp). Right now, running that command results in a lot of "permission denied" errors on some of ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...