Linux File Permissions - skyleroriordan/my-tech-journal GitHub Wiki

For this assignment I added users directories and groups to a Linux CentOS system. I made files that only certain groups and users can read or write.

Things to remember:

To add a user: adduser

To change a users password: passwd

To add a group: groupadd

To add a directory: mkdir

To add user to a group use: usermod -aG groupname user

To change permissions use: chmod then use g for group or o for others then +rwx file/directory name to add permissions or chmod -rwx file/directory name to take away permissions