How to check permissions of a file in the Linux system

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Hi Guys,

I am new in Linux security concepts. I don't know too much about permissions and security. Can anyone tell me how can I check the permissions of a file?

Aug 13, 2020 in Linux Administration by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

If you prefer using the command line, you can easily find a file’s permission settings with the ls command, used to list information about files/directories. You can also add the –l option to the command to see the information in the long list format.

$ ls -l passwd
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2653 Aug 13 16:36 passwd

Here you can see that the user only has read power to passwd file.

answered Aug 13, 2020 by MD
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