c. Exercises

I am logged in as nelle and this is my output of ls -la command

-rw-r--r-- 1 nelle nelle    34 Nov  3 08:40 .profile

Will I be able to write into this file?

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I am logged in as adam and this is my output of ls -la command

drwxr-xr-x 1 nelle nelle    4096 Oct  3 09:41 Documents

Will adam be able to move a file into the documents directory?

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What Permissions will the following command give?

chmod ugo=rwx

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What is the command for setting the permissions to r w – r – – – – x Will adam be able to move a file into the documents directory?

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chmod u+rw,g=r,o=x

We set the user permissions to read (r) write (w), the group permissions to read and other permissions to execute

if a directory with ” r w x r w x r w x” permissions is copied using the cp command, will the permissions be the same on the new directory ?

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what is the difference between a lowercase “t” and an uppercase “T” for the sticky bit? (you may have to google this)

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