Yes Perfect sense!! WTG
Matt Stegman wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2000, Wizaerd wrote:
> > Coming from a MS background, the hardest thing I've had to deal with in
> > trying to learn Linux is the file permissions stuff. In MS, everything is
> > open until you specify permisssions for it, but in Linux it's completely
> > opposite of that. Everything is locked down until you tell it to be more
> > open. This has always been a stumbling blcok for me.
>
> Each file (which includes directories) in UNIX has 4 groups of three
> permission bits. You can view the permissions on a file by `ls -l`, which
> tells `ls` to show lots of information.
>
> The ouput comes in columns, which are ordered:
> permissions, links, owner, group, size, modified date, filename
>
> Some output from various files:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> drwxr-xr-x 4 matt matt 1024 Mar 17 14:28 /home/matt/Desktop
> drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 2048 May 6 00:56 tmp/
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 617564 Dec 20 16:17 /bin/vi
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/hda
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 matt root 9 Feb 16 19:43 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0
> crw------- 1 matt sys 14, 3 Dec 5 15:05 /dev/dsp0
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 48864 Dec 27 09:12 /bin/mount
> srwxr-xr-x 1 matt matt 0 May 5 11:09 /tmp/xmms_matt.0
>
> The first letter of the permissions column tells you the type of file:
> - regular file
> d directory
> c character special device
> b block special device
> l symbolic (soft) link
> p fifo
> s socket
>
> The rest of the bits tell you permissions. They are in three groups of r,
> w, and x. A hyphen "-" means that permission is not set for the
> file. The first group is owner rights, the second is group rights, and
> the third is everyone else.
>
> "r" means the file may be read from. "w" means the file may be written
> to. "x" means it's executable (this has different meaning based on the
> type of file).
>
> Take, for example, /bin/vi. It's a regular file, and can be read from,
> written to, and executed by the owner (root). It may only by read and
> executed by it's group (also named root), and only read and executed by
> everyone else.
>
> Make sense?
>
> -Matt Stegman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >
> > I have Apache and PHP on my system. Apache starts as root but child
> > instances are run as nobody. In a PHP script I'm trying to make a directory
> > but am told I do not have the required permissions to do that (which would
> > mean 'nobody' doesn't have the correct access rights.).
> >
> > How do I make /home/Apache/htdocs a directory that 'nobody' can create other
> > directories in?
> >
> > thanx!
> >
> > Joseph E. Sheble
> > a.k.a. Wizaerd
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