Setting file permissions
November 10th 2008
I’ve been working on tutorial material to explain file permission settings in general. This seems to be a topic that most textbook authors avoid like the plague.
Today, I was googling about file permissions and I found this blog entry at Jaanus.com about the sad usability state of file permission setting functions in Windows and OS X. The author mentions some research at CMU on the usability of file permissions, and highlights several of the pitfalls in the Windows XP interface.