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CentOS Quick Start Guide
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CentOS Quick Start Guide

by Shiwang Kalkhanda
December 2018
Beginner
320 pages
8h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Modifying file permissions with chmod using symbols

The chmod command is used to change the permission or mode of a file or directories. It takes the new set of permissions as the first argument, followed by the list of files and directories, to apply those new permissions. The symbolic method has the following syntax:

$ chmod     whowhatwhich    file   |   directory

Here is a table listing the keywords used with chmod and their descriptions:

Keyword

Description

Who

It represents whose permission you want to change:

u: User permissions

g: Group permissions

o: Other permissions

a: All user permissions

If nothing is specified in this field, it takes (a) as the default value.

What

It represents what you want to do with permissions:

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