16.6) Other Permissions

Digits 8-10 pertain to everyone else. As you get more experienced with Unix you will find that you can move around systems and the permissions are ways to prevent people or allow people to view or modify or run your files. To modify permissions for ‘others’ then us ‘o’ in place of the ‘u’ or ‘g’.

The system will assign permissions that it deems suitable when you create files and directories and unless you are working on very private research or are learning Unix shell scripting then you should be fine with the standard permissions. If you want to learn more then visit here.

The directory permissions controls whether people can enter your directory, put files in it, or copy files out of it. For examples on this area see the following command chmod.