Day 6: File Permissions and Access Control Lists
Today is more on Reading, Learning and Implementing File permissions
The concept of Linux File permission and ownership is important in Linux. Here, we will be working on Linux permissions and ownership and will do tasks on both of them. Let us start with the Permissions.
Create a simple file and do ls -ltr to see the details of the files
Each of the three permissions are assigned to three defined categories of users. The categories are:
owner — The owner of the file or application."chown" is used to change the ownership permission of a file or directory.
group — The group that owns the file or application."chgrp" is used to change the gropu permission of a file or directory.
others — All users with access to the system. (outised the users are in a group)"chmod" is used to change the other users permissions of a file or directory.
As a task, change the user permissions of the file and note the changes after
ls -ltr:\======================
Currently, myfile1.txt has 644 permission and i want to give execute permission to the owner, group and other users. i.e 755
After changing the user permission of myfile1.txt, chmod 755 myfile1.txt
output is:
Write an article about File Permissions based on your understanding from the notes.
Permission Type: 3 types
Basic permission | Read, write, execute |
Special permission | suid, sgid, sticky bit |
Access control list permission (ACL) | Commands: setfacl, getfacl |
Permission classes: 3 types
Owner | is the user who created the file/application (Full permission rwx) |
Group | is a set of users who have been granted certain permission by the owner |
Other | All users with access to the system (outside of the group) |
Permission set:
Read (r) | 4 | read the content of a file |
Write (w) | 2 | modify the content of a file |
Execute (x) | 1 | execute/run the file as a program |
(-) | 0 |
Basic Permission: It controls the access to a file/dir and is assigned to an owner, group and other users with read, write and execute permissions.
Special Permission: It provides additional functionality to control file/dir access such as setting elevated permission and restricting file deletion.
| when a regular user needs to run a program that requires root permission, then setuid can be set to an executable file which allows users to inherit the permission of the owner of that file |
| When a group of users needs to work on the same set of files/dir with the same permission |
| it prevents users from deleting files/dir that they do not own |
With ACL, you can grant permission to multiple users and groups, identified by user name, group name, UID, GID. using the same permission flags used with regular file permission: read, write and execute
To check file permission-> ls -l <filename>
To check directory permission-> ls -ld <filename>
To get detailed info-> ls -ltr <filename>
Read about ACL and try out the commands getfacl and setfacl
Access Control list is a way/service to manage file permissions in Linux. It is more flexible than the traditional File System permissions in Linux.
ACL is particularly useful in multi-user environments or when managing large and complex file systems. It allows us to set permissions for individual users and groups on a per-file basis rather than having to apply the same permissions to an entire directory or file system.
ACL permissions:
To check ACL permissions | getfacl <filename> | |
To set ACL permissions | setfacl -m <u,g,o>:<username>:<r,w,x> <filename> | -m is for modify; u,g,o is for user/group/other user; r,w,x is for read write execute permissions(4,2,1) |
To set ACL permission to all dir | setfacl -d -m | -d is for directory |
To remove ACL permissions for a user from a file | setfacl -x <user> <filename> | |
To remove all ACL permissions | setfacl -b <filename> |
Note- If ACL is set to any file, then the + sign will come as below:
To check whether ACL is enabled in our file system or not, where if the mounted file system defaults mean ACL is enabled in our file system. | cat /etc/fstab |
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