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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Running Commands

Posted by ivettelindsay
ivettelindsay
4,010 Points

my default permissions are different from what is on the running commands video

My default permissions are different from what is on the running commands video. Will this make a difference going forward?

Welcome to the Treehouse Command Line

This computer was built just for you! Feel

The user you are signed in as is: treehous

and the default password is: mike the

treehouse ~ $ ls
documents hello.txt
treehouse ~ $ ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 treehouse treehouse 4096 Jan
-rw-r----- 1 treehouse treehouse 416 Jan
treehouse ~ $

2 Answers

Alexander Nikiforov
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Alexander Nikiforov
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I think It will not affect the following in course:

The difference is insignificant:

You current permissions are

-rw-r-----

Which means

  • first "rw" permits you as user to read and write the file
  • second "r" permits for members of treehouse group to read your file
  • and all other users cannot read, write or execute your file

In his video permissions were a bit milder:

-rw-rw-r--

This means:

  • first "rw" permits you as user to read and write the file
  • second "rw" permits for members of treehouse group to read AND WRITE your file (note the difference)
  • third "r" permits all possible users to read the file

So basically, they made your hello.txt file more private, so that other users, members of "treehouse" group cannot write your file.

If you really want, you can change your hello file to the same one that Jim is using, by typing

chmod 664 hello.txt

All knowledge about file permissions read here:

http://linuxcommand.org/lts0070.php

ivettelindsay
ivettelindsay
4,010 Points
ivettelindsay
ivettelindsay
4,010 Points

Thanks for helping me concerning permissions. :-)