Solaris™ 9 System Administrator Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 310-014 and 310-015)

Glossary

absolute file permissions mode

A numeric notation used to represent the standard file permissions for owner, group, and other. The access mode of a file is determined by adding these absolute modes. The following lists the absolute file permission modes:

• 001— Other execution

• 002— Other write

• 004— Other read

• 010— Group execution

• 020— Group write

• 040— Group read

• 100— User execution

• 200— User write

• 400— User read

Access Control List (ACL)

Solaris 9 extends the standard Unix file permissions by adding an Access Control List capability. ACLs provide the ability to add permissions for specific users and groups, along with a default permission (mask). In addition to supporting the standard read/write/execute permission for owner, group, and ...