Linux Permission

Jun 21, 2023

The permissions consist of three groupings: what the owner of the file can do to it, what someone in a group can do to the file, and finally, what anyone (sometimes referred to as other) can do.

Change the owner of file.
user:group

Change file permission
chmod permissions filename
There are 2 ways to use the command –

1. Absolute mode
2. Symbolic mode

Use mask to get the result. Maximum is 111, the left-most bit is read, middle bit is write, right-most bit is execute.

• The read bit adds 4 to its total (in binary 100),
• The write bit adds 2 to its total (in binary 010), and
• The execute bit adds 1 to its total (in binary 001).

# Adding User to the sudo Group
usermod -aG sudo username

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