Hi Jim. I think I get it now, but what are the bit numbers for read and right? So based on the fact that I know execute is 7, chmod 777 myfile.txt would give root, user, and world read right and execute permissions on myfile.txt? ----- Original Message ----- From: <jwantz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:52 PM Subject: Re: debian /var/lock permissions > Hi, > Each group represents root, user and world in that order. Of course > each bit represents a permission. The permissions are in the same order > as what you would see when you did a 'ls -l' command i.e. read, write, > execute. > Therefore a 7 would mean read, write and execute permissions for that > particular group. > > An example would be: chmod 774 myfile.txt. > In this case root would have read, write and execute permissions. So > would the owner of the file. All others would have only read > permissions. > > Jim Wantz > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Kenny Hitt wrote: > > > Hi. Each permission needs one bit. Remember binary. > > > > Kenny > > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:01:43PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > Hi William. I've never gotten the logic behind the numbering systems to set file permissions. Like how do you get from something like chmod +x /home/file.txt to chmod 755 /home/file.txt. I'm just curious as to whether someone has figured out the logic behind this. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: William Hubbs <kc5eiv at kc5eiv.ddts.net> > > > To: Speakup Mailing List <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:32 PM > > > Subject: debian /var/lock permissions > > > > > > > > > > Cheryl, > > > > > > > > I am running debian 3.0 (woody), and I just checked the permissions on > > > > /var/lock here: > > > > > > > > drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 1024 Mar 14 11:56 /var/lock > > > > > > > > To get that permission, type, as root, > > > > > > > > chmod 1777 /var/lock > > > > > > > > William > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
