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About standard Linux permissions

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About standard Linux permissions

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- [Instructor] The standard Linux permission system came from Unix and was created 40 years ago. It is a tried and true system and works for most situations. The Linux permission system supports the following items. Users can belong to multiple groups. Groups cannot, however, contain other groups. Files and directories belong to one user owner. Files and directories belong to one group owner. Permissions can be set for the user group or other, other being people who are not the user owner and don't belong to the group owner. Users can read, write, or execute files. Users can list items in directories, create new files in directories, and traverse directories. Linux supports privilege escalation to the user owner or group owner of the file. Linux supports group owner inheritance. This means that files and directories can inherit the parent directory's group owner. Linux supports default file permissions that can be different…

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