File Permissions

badsvt351 · 01-31-2002, 05:39 PM

Can someone explain or give me a good place I can get information on file permissions within Linux?

I have read the man page on chmod, I get the first digit of the permissions, but that last 9 I dont. There split into 3 sets of 3 but what does the 3 sets pertain to as they all can have rwx permissions or a combination of rwx.

I'm new to Linux and leanring a lot but just cant get a hang of the permissions thang.

Thanks for any help.
-Keith

TacKat · 01-31-2002, 06:13 PM

Try this on for size: http://www.perlfect.com/articles/chmod.shtml