General question about Linux

[Gregory Nowak]

Reading the chmod man page also helps.
Greg


On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:53:06AM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi, Teddy. Not onlyare the files in test directory viewable, ubut you have
> just given everyone on the planet full access to do what they will with
> them. Don't ever use 777 unless you know what you are doing.
> Now if you want the files to be totally unevalible to others except one user
> set it to 700, and only one user has access to them.
> Now if you want your users to be able to see the files but not delete them,
> modify them, etc 744 is the way to go. This will set it to read write
> exicute for the user such as root, but everyone else has read only access.
> If you need me to explain how parmissions are defined ask, and I'll tell
> you. It is really important to know how parmissions are defined to keep
> security up on your system.
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