Or, if you are familar with Octal you can coorilate the octal bits with the respective permissions. On Monday 23 September 2002 10:06 pm, you wrote: > Hi. R means the person has the ability to read the files contents. X > means the user can exicute the file as a program. > Personally, I find working with the numbers is much easier to work with. > Keep in mind you have three columns you need to fill in with permissions. > You have user, group, and other. > > 0: no permissions. > 1: Execute. > 2: write. > 4: Read. > 5: Read, execute. > 6: Read, write. > 7: Read, write, execute. > > So let's say you want a file/directory to be set with read write for user > and group you would write. > > chmod 660 filename > > > If you want to make something accessible to one user you would do this. > > chown username filename > chmod 600 filename > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:21 PM > Subject: [expert] directory permissions > > > i think i'm coming unstuck about the difference between 'r' - read > > permission > > > and 'x' -enter perm for a directory, what exactly is the difference? > > > > bascule > > -- > > "Yes, it's the right planet, all right, " he said again. > > "Right planet, wrong universe. " > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- ---- > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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