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Figure 16.16: Permissions for sneakers.txt
There are 10 slots in this column. The first slot represents the type of file. The remaining nine slots
are actually three sets of permissions for three different categories of users.
Those three sets are: the owner of the file, the group in which the file belongs and “others,” meaning
users and groups other than owner of the file (billy) and those in billy’sgroup(whichisalso
billy).
Let’sstretchoutthesefile settings a bit:
- (-rw) (-rw) (r--) 1 billy billy
|| ||
type owner group others
The first item, which specifies the file type, can show one of the following:
d – adirectory
- – aregularfile (rather than directory or link)
l – a symbolic link to another program or file elsewhere on the system
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