Linux file and directory permissions

How to manage access to files and directories using chmod and chown. Linux uses permission and group system just like other posix (unix-like) operating systems.

Benefits

Compared to ACL, Linux permission system benefits are simplicity and automatic showing up in listings. Downsides are that it is not possible (or easy) to do complex permissions.

$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tee tee 0 Aug 16 17:13 terosfile

Tested with redhat 9.0 Shrike.

Copyright 2003-05-17, 2003-07-07 Tero Karvinen. GNU Free Documentation License. XHTML Basic 1.0