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You could use chmod command, depending of the kind of permission you need, for example
$chmod a+x file
this would set execute permission for all, however you can change "a" by u (owner), g (group)or o (others)
Furthermore we have r (read), w (write) or x (execute)
Many filesystems support access control lists (ACLs), which, when they are used, effectively supersede the traditional -rwxrwxrwx permissions mask. However, they are not entirely standardized as to their format or their capability. You might be able to get some good out of PAM, but I am truly not knowledgeable on this point.
hi everybody i need to set the permission for a particular user with their id
i think you mean a permission like a user can install programs or issue the particular commands.in this case you should user sudo.
its file is located in /etc/sudoers.there's good comment in that file.if you didn't understand the syntax, do tell.
as already noted, chown will set the permissions of an existing file. Perhaps you mean to set the file permissions used by default when a user creates a file. If so, bash and probably most other shells have a "umask" builtin command, and it can also be used in your .bashrc file.
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