In linux, file, folder, etc can accesse by three types of user groups.
- Owner
- Group
- Other
and each user group has three types of permissions. read,write, and execute. As an example, (if user has read permision we denote it by using 1 and if not by 0 in binary )
Owner Group Other
rwx rw- r--
111 110 100
7 6 4
we can use "ls -l" command to view files,folders,links with permissions.
drwxr-xr-x 2 melick melick 4096 2008-11-23 00:32 Music
this is the sample. so we look each and every element further.
drwxr-xr-x
first charactor "d" is for type of the file. there are three types.
- d = directory (folder)
- l = link (symbolic link, shortcut)
- - = file
- c = charactor device (ex:- /dev/ttys0) {try:- ls -l /dev/ttys0}
- b = block device (ex:- /dev/sda1) {try:- ls -l /dev/sda1}
now we consider the permission set in the above folder.
rwxr-xrx- = rwx r-x r-x
owner group other
111 101 101
7 5 5
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