The Hack Faq

One logged into the UNIX system file access is controlled by the standard UNIX permissions: r w x -.The permission settings are for read, write (or change), eXecute, and permission denied (-).The permissions are grouped into a set of three rwxrwxrwx where the first three are the permissions for the user/owner of the file, the second three are the permissions for members of the group assigned ... ................
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