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-====== Linux Permissions ======
+====== Linux Permissions Introduction ======
-==== what eh? ====
+are you making this up?
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+For someone like me who comes from a Windows background, Linux permissions were somewhat confusing, so here is a little reminder because from time to time, I do forget (okay, all the time).
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+First the structure, I have an example file that I will use, to show this file and its permissions, from a command line enter:
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+    ls -al
+    The output is:
+    "-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 4452 Jul 25 18:01 example.py"
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+The part we are interest in is at the start of the line:
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+    "-rw-r--r--"
+    A 10 character section that can be split up as:
+    "-" This denotes file or directory "-" = File, "d" = Directory
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+Then we have three sets of three characters, and these are the different permissions for:
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+    "rw-" - Owner
+    "r--" - Group
+    "r--" - Other
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+Remember:
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+    r is for read, w is for write and x is for execute.
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+So for our example:
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+    "-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 4452 Jul 25 18:01 example.py"
+    "-" means its a file
+    "rw-" Owner has read + write permissions
+    "r--" Group has read only
+    "r--" Other has read only.
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+Who is the Owner and Group?
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+    "-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 4452 Jul 25 18:01 example.py"
+    In this example, pi is the owner and they are a member of the pi group
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