file permissions

By Linux.com Staff on October 12, 2008 Share Comments This week in the ongoing town-hall debate that is the Linux.com forums , the participants were asked about troubleshooting file permissions, testing Web ...

Wired's newly-revamped Webmonkey site has an informative guide on seeing, changing, and understanding file permissions in Unix-like systems.

File permissions on Unix and Linux are one of the most ubiquitous stumbling blocks for even regular users of those operating systems.

The intricate structure of which users on a system are allowed to do what is one of the foundations of Unix,Here's a look at how permissions work and how to work with them.

How do you list the files in an UNIX directory while also showing hidden files? How do you execute a UNIX command in the background?

What UNIX command will control the default file permissions when files are ...

How-To: copy files over the network and preserve file permissions and informations with ssh and rsync When copying files over the network, the files informations can be modified.

When using cp, one can avoid this issue by using the -a which will do the copy in archive mode, meaning that it will keep the links, preserve mode, ownership and timestamp

Recently on Tombuntu there’s a post which tells you how to Enable the Advanced File Permissions Dialog in Nautilus by issuing the command in a terminal.

If you feel more comfortable with the GUI, here's how to do it.

Extremely handy terminal command reference sheet, available as a PDF file (image visible and readable on the page).

Divided into the following categories: File Commands, Process Management, File Permissions, SSH, Searching, System Info, Compression, Network, Installation, and Shortcuts.

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