Working with Permissions

Now that you should have the basics of file permissions down, this section includes some "tips and tricks" that I use to ensure that permissions are properly set on servers.

Home Directories

Most admins overlook the setting of permissions on user's home directories. I believe, this is because most admins do not have a good understanding of Unix Permissions (especially those coming from a Windows background). Because of this, most Linux Servers are d...

File & Directory Permissions on Linux

Special Bits

So far, you have been shown the basic manipulation of file and directory permissions. However, there are quite a few circumstances which these will not be enough for the situation. For instance, what if you have a few people that have different "Default Groups", but are members of another group and you need them to all have write access to certain files. Or what if you have some less knowledgeable users that may accidentally delete other people...