November 28, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google You are not alone. In fact, I was pretty confused by file permissions for a long time, but it’s actually very ...

I bet you can do what you want with file system permissions though, if you're clever. IF not, you should look into using ACLs. Provided your kernel and filesystem have support for them (ext2/3, ...

Viewing the content of files and examining access permissions and such are very different options. This post examines a number of ways to look at files on Linux. There are a number of ways to view ...