Linux Permissions Explained in Simple Terms

Let's make file and directory permissions on Linux easy to understand. How will we do that? By simply looking at:

• Why do we need a permission?

• What does it do?

• And looking at a real example, where we run a command, experiment with that permission, and see its actual effects (screenshots included).

In this guide we'll focus more on how permissions work (the theory behind them). But if you're interested mainly in how to change permissions, rather than the theory, we also have a guide that will teach you how to use the chmod command on Linux...

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