The ability to access a file is determined by a set of:
| home directories of the user |
od -w filename' ADDS the write permission to the file filename.
This special permission which requires that the user owns the file in order to delete it is the letter (also known as the 'sticky bit'):
Permissions can be set on the user, group, or others.
Use this command to view the permissions on a file:
To recursively descend through a directory changing permissions use the following command:
Setting the r permission allows the user to run as the owner of the file (e.g. the passwd command)
A directory created when the umask is set to 777 has FULL permissions (rwxrwxrwx)
The command 'chmod u=,g=,o= shortFileName' will set all permissions to rwxrwxrwx.
The valid modes for permissions are r=4, w=2, and x=1.