access permissions: Linux has a system of file ownerships and permissions which control who can do what with a file.

Read, write, and execute are the what, the owner, group, and world are the who.

See:

• chmod
• chown
• chgrp
• file ownership and permissions in Linux

Contributors

• RandyKramer - 30 Jan 2002
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