Saturday, April 17, 2010

Change Permissions of files (chmod)

Here's another from my scrap notes.

chmod 000 filename.abc

(defaults are usually 755 for folders, 644 for files)

Numbers correspond to users. 1st=Owner; 2nd=Group; 3rd=Other
(-rwxrwxwrx = 777, -rwxr-xr-x = 755, -rw-r--r-- = 644, etc.)
7 = Read + Write + Execute
6 = Read + Write
5 = Read + Execute
4 = Read
3 = Write + Execute
2 = Write
1 = Execute
0 = All access denied

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