7. File Perminsions and Ownership

Question 1

What do read permissions grant you?

Answer 1

Reading or viewing the content of a file or directory

Question 2

What do write permissions grant you?

Answer 2

modifying or deleting a file or directory and its contents

Question 3

What does the execute permission grant you?

Answer 3

Executing a file or accessing the contents of a directory for directories

Question 4

What command is used to change the permission of a file or directory?

Answer 4

chmod

Question 5

Explain how permission modification is done symbolically.

Answer 5

person(s)_involved +/- rwx(this could be any one or more of these characters) filename.txt

Persons_involved:
* u, for the owner
* g, for the group
* o, for others

+ to add permission(s)
- to remove permission(s)

rwx, permission(s) to be added or removed (granted or revoked)

There for example:
chmod u+rwx filename.ext => will grant read, write, and execute permission to the owner of the file