November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
21h 46m
English
This chapter covers the following topics:
This chapter covers the following objective:
Objective 3.1: Given a scenario, apply or acquire the appropriate user and/or group permissions and ownership.
In Chapter 9, “File Permissions and Escalation,” you learned how users can protect their own files and directories by using permissions. Permissions are a very useful feature; however, they do have one major weak point: the user.
Users are often confused about permissions. A typical user might not understand the complexity of Linux permissions, particularly nuances such as write permission on a directory meaning that users can delete all the files in that directory. ...
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