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By default, which account is the owner of a file or directory?
the account that created it
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Name the three types of access permissions.
read, write and execute
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Name the three categories of accounts which are used in assigning access permissions.
owner, group, everyone else
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Who can change the access permissions on a file or directory?
only the owner
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What would you enter on the command line if you wanted to see the access permissions
of entries in your current directory?
ls -l
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What is the name of the command you would use to change the access permissions
for a file or directory?
chmod
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Three numbers can be used to specify access permissions when using the command
above. Each of these numbers can only be in a certain range.
What is the maximum and minimum for each of these three numbers?
0 to 7
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If the file work.sh has the permissions given below,
what could the owner of the file do?
-rwxr-x--x 1 ghoffman grad 0 Sep 27 11:08 work.sh
read, write and execute
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For the same file, what could the group do?
read and execute
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For the same file, what could every other account do?
only execute