anti — Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:15:00 +0000

Each "normal" file has 9 flags.
3 for the owner of the file
3 for users in the same group as the owner
3 for others

the flags are:
r - for reading the file/directory
w - for writing to the file/directory
x - for executing the file/cding through the dir

usually you encode the flags in an octal triplet.
ABC
A = owner-perm
B = group-perm
C = other-perm

r = 4
w = 2
x = 1

So if you want rwx for the user and r-x for all others (including groups) you get:
A = 4(r)+2(w)+1(x) = 7
B = C = 4(r)+1(x) = 5
-> 755

Actually you don't you use a permission triplet, but don't bother with the fourth number, that's really complicated ...

Orpheus — Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:12:00 +0000

I dont pay any attention to user, group, other.

I just use numbers, like on my linux pc

755 exec
777 write
666 worship sata... errr read. (just a little humour, no offense intended)