1.4. Changing permission bits
You can change the permission bits of files you own to whatever you feel comfortable with. You have to ask yourself which users need access to your files (and this also includes directories that you own). You can change the permission bits using the command chmod. This command can be used in a short way using the absolute mode or a long way using the symbolic mode. We’ll look at the symbolic mode first.
1.4.1. Symbolic mode
The general format of the chmod command is
chmod [who] operator [permissions] filename
who means:
| u | The user permissions |
| g | The group permissions |
| o | The other permissions |
| a | Means all (user, group and other) |
operator means:
| + | Add a permission |
| - | Take away a permission |
| = | Set permissions |
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