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Understanding Linux file permissions
Posted on July 29th, 2008 No commentsThey’re funny things Linux file permissions – the moment you think you understand them, you discover some subtle piece of functionality that means you were wrong all-along…
In this three-part article, I give a brief introduction to file and directory permissions, as well as some of the common gotchas. This part shows you how to interpret permissions on the command line and explains what they mean.
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Dan is a web developer living and working in London, UK. He started this blog when he realised he had technical geekery to share, which wasn't suitable for his Chinese themed site Fozza.com.
Dan's main areas of expertise are PHP, Zend Framework, MySQL, Javascript, HTML and CSS. Currently, he works for the BBC, developing new stuff for their website.
