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CHMOD Permissions Chart

Changing CHMOD permissions in Linux file systems is an important task. Many administrators use the common Octal notation to quickly assign permissions to the User, Group, and Other accounts in a single command.

User (u) Group (g) Other (o)
Read (r) 4 4 4
Write (w) 2 2 2
Execute (x) 1 1 1

 

Octal Permissions
777 rwxrwxrwx
755 rwxr-xr-x
644 rw-r–r–
700 rwx——
750 rwxr-x—
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