File Permissions

Gremond Z. Agpoon
Technical Support Engineer

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 Objectives
You will be able to understand how Oracle linux
treats file permission and what tools the OS
provides for permission manipulation.

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 Agenda
• Overview of file access Components.
• Discussion on “file access permission”
• Modification of file permission
• Q&A

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 Overview
File access components

• Username (or UID)

• Group (or GID)
• File Access Permission

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 File Access Permission
• The file access permission are codes that represents
who may access the file, relatively to the file’s user,
the file’s owner, and all other users.
• The ls –l command is the best way to view file and
directory ownership and permissions.

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• The three groups indicate permissions for the owner,
group, and other users respectively.

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The alphabetic permission indicators are commonly
assigned numeric values according to the scheme
shown in the table below

Alpha Numeric Permission

No permission
- 0
granted
Execute
x 1 permission
granted
Write permission
w 2
granted
Read permission
r 4
granted

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Here’s the table representing octal value

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 Modification of file permission

chmod   Change file permissions

Syntax: chmod xxx file

xxx - 3 digit octal permission value
file - the path/file to change permissions

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