[SLUG] Linux Permissions

[Stephen O'Neill]

Jonathan Worthington wrote:

> I find it helpful to think of it like this:  Everything on UNIX is a
> file. Thus a directory is a file (that just contains a list of files
> in the directory, conceptually).  So if you want to delete a directory
> or file A that is in a directory B, then you're modifying the list of
> files that make up directory B, so you need permissions on B. 


Yes, that concept does make sense thank you... though I do feel a little
bashful that I didn't get it before.

I think it goes to show that you don't get to fundamentally understand
an operating system by just checking email and reading slashdot.

Steve O

		
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