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Permissions using symbolic notation

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Permissions using symbolic notation

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- [Narrator] There are two different methods of setting permissions in Linux: numeric and symbolic. For this video, let's talk about symbolic mode. When we do a long list with LS, we see several things. We see the permissions, ownership, timestamp, file name, and a few other smaller bits such as size. There are 10 characters on the left-hand side of the listing. The first character shows the type. If it's a hash, it's a file. If it were a director, it would be a letter D. If it were a symbolic link, it would be an L. If it were a character device, a C. A P for a pipe, and a B for a block device. The next nine characters are divided into groups of three. The first group is the user owner of the file. The user owner in this case is user1. The user owner has read, write, and execute. The second group of three is for the group owner. The group owner in this case is accounting. The accounting group has read and execute. The…

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