Linux Administration/Devices and Filesystems/Permissions

This lesson covers permissions.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the permissions portion of Linux+ certification include:
 * Manage file permissions and ownership
 * Manage access permissions on regular and special files as well as directories
 * Use access modes such as suid, sgid and the sticky bit to maintain security
 * Know how to change the file creation mask
 * Use the group field to grant file access to group members
 * The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
 * chmod
 * umask
 * chown
 * chgrp

Readings

 * 1)  File system permissions

Activities

 * 1) Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Manage file permissions and ownership