Talk:Linux permissions

Links

You might want to add symbolic link lrwxrwxrwx as a 3rd category besides file and directory:

[byrdeo@euler04 ~]$ ln -s a b
[byrdeo@euler04 ~]$ ll b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 byrdeo T0000 1 Aug  2 16:44 b -> a

Permission bits

The numerical representation in your table (e.g. rwx = 421) is misleading because it can be confused with the overall permissions in octal form (e.g. rwxr-xr-x = 755) used by chmod.

To avoid this, it would be better to give the binary representation in the 2nd column (r = 100, w = 010, x = 001) and explain that the 3rd column is obtained by summing those bits (e.g. rwx = 111 binary = 7 octal or decimal).

Special chmod flags

Add -X flag.

Byrdeo (talk) 15:13, 2 August 2016 (UTC)