On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Ricardo Denis wrote:
> greetings friends,
>
> is there a table for figuring out file/directory permisions? for example, i
> know 755 equals rwxr-xr-x. there are others such as 666, 500, 505 etc but
> how do i "translate", so to speak, to r�s w�s and x�s? thanks for any advice.
These are octal numbers. Each file has permissions for owner, group and others.
Each permission group can be read, write and/or execute.
Read is 4, write is 2 and execute is 1. Just add these up for each group. For
example, to make something "rwxrwxr-x", you would use the number 4+2+1 - 4+2+1
- 4+1, or 775. Remember that you need execute permission to change into
directories.
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