[Artanis]

I want to se some user privilegies using the terminal. My problem is that I don't understand some permissions from my operating system. So, for example I have a file with the rights drwxrwxxr-x. My question is what does the last x mean? How do I use chmod to add it or delete it?

Thank you

[Spheric Harlot]

The d means it's a directory (i.e. a folder). The three sets of rwx refer to the right to read from, write to, and execute programs from that directory, for its owner, his group, and all other users on the system. A hyphen (-) signifies that the user/group does not have that particular right.

Those two xx's in the middle of your example are wrong.

Also: if you don't know exactly what you're doing with regard to permissions, BE CAREFUL and better just leave it alone.

It's very easy to render large parts of your data inaccessible and/or make your machine completely unusable.

What are you trying to do?

[Artanis]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

The d means it's a directory (i.e. a folder). The three sets of rwx refer to the right to read from, write to, and execute programs from that directory, for its owner, his group, and all other users on the system. A hyphen (-) signifies that the user/group does not have that particular right.

Those two xx's in the middle of your example are wrong.

Also: if you don't know exactly what you're doing with regard to permissions, BE CAREFUL and better just leave it alone.

It's very easy to render large parts of your data inaccessible and/or make your machine completely unusable.

What are you trying to do?

I have knowledge about the chmod command from linux. I know what rwx means for all the 3 categories:its owner, group, others. It seems that I've wrongly counted the x values. Its ok. Thank you anyway