File permissions
Permission Groups
Each file and directory has three user based permission groups:
owner - The Owner permissions apply only the owner of the file or directory, they will not impact the actions of other users.
group - The Group permissions apply only to the group that has been assigned to the file or directory, they will not effect the actions of other users.
all users - The All Users permissions apply to all other users on the system, this is the permission group that you want to watch the most.
Permission Groups
Each file and directory has three user based permission groups:
owner - The Owner permissions apply only the owner of the file or directory, they will not impact the actions of other users.
group - The Group permissions apply only to the group that has been assigned to the file or directory, they will not effect the actions of other users.
all users - The All Users permissions apply to all other users on the system, this is the permission group that you want to watch the most.
Permission Types
Each file or directory has three basic permission types:
read - The Read permission refers to a user's capability to read the contents of the file.
write - The Write permissions refer to a user's capability to write or modify a file or directory.
execute - The Execute permission affects a user's capability to execute a file or view the contents of a directory.
Viewing the Permissions
You can view the permissions by checking the file or directory permissions in your favorite GUI File Manager (which I will not cover here) or by reviewing the output of the \"ls -l\" command while in the terminal and while working in the directory which contains the file or folder.
The permission in the command line is displayed as: _rwxrwxrwx 1 owner:group
User rights/Permissions
The first character that I marked with an underscore is the special permission flag that can vary.
The following set of three characters (rwx) is for the owner permissions.
The second set of three characters (rwx) is for the Group permissions.
The third set of three characters (rwx) is for the All Users permissions.
Following that grouping since the integer/number displays the number of hardlinks to the file.
The last piece is the Owner and Group assignment formatted as Owner:Group.
Modifying the Permissions
When in the command line, the permissions are edited by using the command chmod. You can assign the permissions explicitly or by using a binary reference as described below.
Explicitly Defining Permissions
To explicity define permissions you will need to reference the Permission Group and Permission Types.
The Permission Groups used are:
u - Owner
g - Group
o - Others
a - All users
The potential Assignment Operators are + (plus) and - (minus); these are used to tell the system whether to add or remove the specific permissions.
The Permission Types that are used are:
r - Read
w - Write
x - Execute
So for an example, lets say I have a file named file1 that currently has the permissions set to _rw_rw_rw, which means that the owner, group and all users have read and write permission. Now we want to remove the read and write permissions from the all users group.
To make this modification you would invoke the command: chmod a-rw file1
To add the permissions above you would invoke the command: chmod a+rw file1
Every Permission has a value
read --4
write --2
execute --1
Default permission for file is 666
Default permission for directory is 777
When you create a file it will contains 3 types of users to access it they are
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
---|---|---
owner|group|allusers
Each one have rwx permissions
when we create a file using root then the file permissions will be 644.
Because here we having umask value 022 for root account.when you create file using
root this umask value will be deducted from the default file permissiosn that is(666-022=644)
644 stands(rw-r--r--).
when we create a file using normal user then the file permissions will be 664.
Because here we having umask value 002 for normal user account.when you create file using
normal user this umask value will be deducted from the default file permissiosn that is(666-002=664)
664 stands(rw-rw-r--).
à the below command will remove read permission for group,other users of dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod go-r dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls
ckt.txt dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
àThe below command add write permissions whereever it require
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod +w ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod +x ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
àThis will give write permission to the others
and removes execute permissions for group and others
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod go-x,o+w ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rwxrw-rw-. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod g+x,o+w ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rwxrwxrw-. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la ckt.txt
-rwxrwxrw-. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod g-x,o+x ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la ckt.txt
-rwxrw-rwx. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod u-r,g-x,o+x ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
--wxrw-rwx. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
# Here another way to give permissions
below command we gave permissions as 762(4+2+1,4+2,2)
stands for (user(rwx),group(rw),other(w))
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod 762 ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rwxrw--w-. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ touch sample
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la sample
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dhoni dhoni 0 Jun 27 12:20 sample
àShows the present working directory
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ pwd
/home/dhoni
àTo Exit from the present user account
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ exit
exit
[root@server1 ~]# su dhoni
[dhoni@server1 root]$ cd
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls
ckt.txt dir1 sample
To check the umask value normal user
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ umask
0002
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ exit
exit
àThe umask value of root user
[root@server1 ~]# umask
0022
[root@server1 ~]# su dhoni
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ umask
0002
àTo change the umask value
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ umask 242
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ umask
0242
à now create a file it will be created with changed permissions like(666-242=424)
i.e -r---w-r--
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ touch sample2
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la sample2
-r---w-r--. 1 dhoni dhoni 0 Jun 27 12:26 sample2
àif you remove execute permission to the directory you can not list its contents
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod u-x dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la dir1
ls: cannot access dir1/..: Permission denied
ls: cannot access dir1/.: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ..
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod u+x dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la dir1
total 8
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 .
drwx------. 3 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:26 ..
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
àTo remove the file or directory use rm command
Here -rf option because to remove the file recursive and forcefully.
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ rm -rf sample2
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rwxrw--w-. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dhoni dhoni 0 Jun 27 12:20 sample
àls command having different options try it
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -i
915756 ckt.txt 915755 dir1 915757 sample
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -s
total 8
4 ckt.txt 4 dir1 0 sample
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -r
sample dir1 ckt.txt
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Each file or directory has three basic permission types:
read - The Read permission refers to a user's capability to read the contents of the file.
write - The Write permissions refer to a user's capability to write or modify a file or directory.
execute - The Execute permission affects a user's capability to execute a file or view the contents of a directory.
Viewing the Permissions
You can view the permissions by checking the file or directory permissions in your favorite GUI File Manager (which I will not cover here) or by reviewing the output of the \"ls -l\" command while in the terminal and while working in the directory which contains the file or folder.
The permission in the command line is displayed as: _rwxrwxrwx 1 owner:group
User rights/Permissions
The first character that I marked with an underscore is the special permission flag that can vary.
The following set of three characters (rwx) is for the owner permissions.
The second set of three characters (rwx) is for the Group permissions.
The third set of three characters (rwx) is for the All Users permissions.
Following that grouping since the integer/number displays the number of hardlinks to the file.
The last piece is the Owner and Group assignment formatted as Owner:Group.
Modifying the Permissions
When in the command line, the permissions are edited by using the command chmod. You can assign the permissions explicitly or by using a binary reference as described below.
Explicitly Defining Permissions
To explicity define permissions you will need to reference the Permission Group and Permission Types.
The Permission Groups used are:
u - Owner
g - Group
o - Others
a - All users
The potential Assignment Operators are + (plus) and - (minus); these are used to tell the system whether to add or remove the specific permissions.
The Permission Types that are used are:
r - Read
w - Write
x - Execute
So for an example, lets say I have a file named file1 that currently has the permissions set to _rw_rw_rw, which means that the owner, group and all users have read and write permission. Now we want to remove the read and write permissions from the all users group.
To make this modification you would invoke the command: chmod a-rw file1
To add the permissions above you would invoke the command: chmod a+rw file1
Every Permission has a value
read --4
write --2
execute --1
Default permission for file is 666
Default permission for directory is 777
When you create a file it will contains 3 types of users to access it they are
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
---|---|---
owner|group|allusers
Each one have rwx permissions
when we create a file using root then the file permissions will be 644.
Because here we having umask value 022 for root account.when you create file using
root this umask value will be deducted from the default file permissiosn that is(666-022=644)
644 stands(rw-r--r--).
when we create a file using normal user then the file permissions will be 664.
Because here we having umask value 002 for normal user account.when you create file using
normal user this umask value will be deducted from the default file permissiosn that is(666-002=664)
664 stands(rw-rw-r--).
à the below command will remove read permission for group,other users of dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod go-r dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls
ckt.txt dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
àThe below command add write permissions whereever it require
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod +w ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod +x ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
àThis will give write permission to the others
and removes execute permissions for group and others
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod go-x,o+w ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rwxrw-rw-. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod g+x,o+w ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rwxrwxrw-. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la ckt.txt
-rwxrwxrw-. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod g-x,o+x ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la ckt.txt
-rwxrw-rwx. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod u-r,g-x,o+x ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
--wxrw-rwx. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
# Here another way to give permissions
below command we gave permissions as 762(4+2+1,4+2,2)
stands for (user(rwx),group(rw),other(w))
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod 762 ckt.txt
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rwxrw--w-. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ touch sample
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la sample
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dhoni dhoni 0 Jun 27 12:20 sample
àShows the present working directory
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ pwd
/home/dhoni
àTo Exit from the present user account
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ exit
exit
[root@server1 ~]# su dhoni
[dhoni@server1 root]$ cd
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls
ckt.txt dir1 sample
To check the umask value normal user
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ umask
0002
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ exit
exit
àThe umask value of root user
[root@server1 ~]# umask
0022
[root@server1 ~]# su dhoni
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ umask
0002
àTo change the umask value
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ umask 242
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ umask
0242
à now create a file it will be created with changed permissions like(666-242=424)
i.e -r---w-r--
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ touch sample2
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la sample2
-r---w-r--. 1 dhoni dhoni 0 Jun 27 12:26 sample2
àif you remove execute permission to the directory you can not list its contents
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod u-x dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la dir1
ls: cannot access dir1/..: Permission denied
ls: cannot access dir1/.: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ..
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ chmod u+x dir1
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la dir1
total 8
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 .
drwx------. 3 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:26 ..
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
àTo remove the file or directory use rm command
Here -rf option because to remove the file recursive and forcefully.
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ rm -rf sample2
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -la
-rwxrw--w-. 1 dhoni dhoni 281 Jun 27 10:31 ckt.txt
drwx-wx--x. 2 dhoni dhoni 4096 Jun 27 12:05 dir1
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dhoni dhoni 0 Jun 27 12:20 sample
àls command having different options try it
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -i
915756 ckt.txt 915755 dir1 915757 sample
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -s
total 8
4 ckt.txt 4 dir1 0 sample
[dhoni@server1 ~]$ ls -r
sample dir1 ckt.txt
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