Her command will be chmod 700 home_backup.sh.
If she uses numeric mode to set the permissions on her script, she must first calculate the value total: -rwx- 1 denise denise 0 Jul 31 13: 53 home_backup.shĭenise adds the numbers that correspond to each permission she wants to apply: Take the example with Denise and her backup script. The total value of a set of permissions can be calculated and passed to the chmod command as a single argument. You can read this as "permissions for user equal read, write, and execute and permissions for group and other equal none." Numeric modeĬhmod also supports a numeric mode, which uses values assigned to each position: owner Note that there is a space after the second equals this indicates a value of none: $ chmod u=rwx, go= home_backup.sh This will set the permissions absolutely without regard for previous settings.
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One way to do this is with the plus and minus symbols: $ chmod go-rw,u+x home_backup.shĪnother way is by using the equals ( =) symbol. She also wants to prevent anyone else from reading, writing, or executing it. Suppose Denise has written a Bash script called home_backup.sh and wants to give it execute permission. You can read this as "others minus read and group minus write." rw-r- 1 pablo share 0 Jul 31 13: 34 readme.txt
He can use the command chmod u+x to add the permission, and then he can cd into it. Pablo may be the owner of the JBOSS directory, but since he doesn't have execute permission, he can not cd into it. drw-rw-r- 2 pablo pablo 4096 Jul 30 15: 56 JBOSS For a user to change to a directory ( cd), it must have execute permission. It will need write permission for a user to add to the directory (e.g., to create a new file). A directory must have the read permission for a user to view its contents. The same three permissions also apply to a directory. The command chmod u-r means "user minus read," as it takes the read permission away from the user. You can read chmod u+r as "user plus read," as it gives the user read permission. It is one of the most used and important commands in the set of Linux security commands.Ī plus ( +) symbol adds a permission, and a minus ( -) symbol removes a permission. The chmod command modifies the permission mode of objects in the system. rw-r- 1 pablo pablo 0 Jul 30 16: 25 textfile In the following example, a file is configured for its owner ( pablo) to have read and write permissions, for members of the group to only have read permission, and for everyone else to have no permissions. Of course, we don't usually configure files this permissively in the real world this is just an illustration of how each position is used. Ī file with read, write, and execute bits set for all entities would appear: rwxrwxrwx
The positions are ordered r, w, x, and the groups are ordered user, group, other. The next nine positions are grouped in threes and describe the permission mode. The first position denotes the object's type: - for a file, d for a directory, and l for a symbolic link. User is synonymous with the owner, and group refers to the user's primary group, both of which are bruce. Some permissions ( rw) appear more than once because they are referring to different entities: user, group, and other. rw-rw-r- 1 bruce bruce 0 Jul 30 16: 25 schedule1.txt