Explain the read, write, and execute permissions on a UNIX
directory.
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Answer / james mathew
read - we can list the directory
ie we can apply ls command
write - we can create file in this directory.
execute - We can navigate to that directory
ie we can apply cd to that directory
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Answer / venkatarao
chmod 777
7--->owner permissions
7--->group permissions
7--->other permissins
by defualt permissions are 755 means owner by default
read,write and execute permissins
the format of permissions are
-rwxr-xr-x
- indicates it's dirctory we mention d and file donot
mention any option.
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Answer / p naveen kumar
in unix, read permission ona directory will allow the user
to list the files in that directory.
Write permission will allow the user to create sub
diretories and new files in to that particular directory.
Untiil and unless a directory has execute permissions, user
cant access the data in that directory.
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Answer / ajay singh
for giving the permission to a file we can use
chmod 777 filename
left to right
1st 7 is for you
2nd is for your group
3rd is for other users
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Answer / m.dhanunjaya
The read,write, and execute permissions for directory is 777
but the default perrmission is 755 only.
Read:-It allows users read the contains of directory.
Write:-It allows users to updates(edit,insert,delete) the
directory.
Execute:-It execute the directory.
permissions of directory:-
---------------------------
user groups others
rd wr exe rd wr exc rd wr exc
4 3 1 4 - 1 4 - 1
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