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Standard Linux permissions overview

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Standard Linux permissions overview

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- [Instructor] The standard Linux permission system came from Unix and was created 40 years ago. It is a tried and true system and works for most situations. The Linux permission system supports the following items. Users can belong to multiple groups. Groups can not, however, contain other groups. Files and directories have one user owner. Files and directories have one group owner. Permissions can be set for the user owner, group owner, and other, other being people who are not the user owner and don't belong to the group owner. For files, users can read, write, or execute. For directories, users can list items contained in directories, create new files, and traverse directories. The permission system supports privilege escalation to the user owner or group owner of the file and supports group owner inheritance. This means that files and directories can inherit the parent directory's group owner. They also support default file…

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