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Command Line Basics: Permissions and Ownership

Addison Berry
by Addison Berry
September 16, 2009

In this next video of our command line series, we will look at permissions and ownership of files and folders. It covers the following commands:

  • chmod
  • chown
  • chgrp
  • sudo

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Comments

loved it

On September 16th, 2009 mm (not verified) said:

really nicely done, addi. i learned some stuff.

Great Screencast

On September 16th, 2009 Jaymie Jones (not verified) said:

Great screencast addi! Loving these little ones. Helps refresh the memory on some of these command line commands. Normally I just use:
chmod 777 ...
and not like
chmod o+r ...
Never knew about that way of doing things.

numbers vs letters

On September 17th, 2009 addi said:

Thanks! I actually have always used the number system myself but I figured the letters are more intuitive and a *lot* easier for people to learn. I had originally intended to at least talk about the number system but the video was already over length (I try to do all my vids under 15 minutes as a rule) and I thought it might end up causing more confusion anyway. Glad you found it informative!

öwesome

On October 24th, 2009 mortendk (not verified) said:

Hey Addi
pretty hot stuff - great to learn new stuff and not feel like an idiot :)
thanx for the screencast, im actully beginning to feel kinda "home" now in the terminal

just this video not playing

On October 28th, 2009 Glopacadmin (not verified) said:

Hi.
These command line tutorials are great. Many thanks.

One problem: of the series only this one video--on permissions--throws an error: "Your browser is not able to display...." Is there something set differently about this page?

Where's the video?

On October 30th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Where's the video?
I go to the download link, and it come up with page not found.

yes i want to download the

On December 4th, 2009 fredd (not verified) said:

yes i want to download the video too.:d is very nice.

mara,
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Same problem with video

On November 2nd, 2009 Shai Gluskin (not verified) said:

I also am getting the page not found error.

Working again!

On November 3rd, 2009 addi said:

Sorry about that! Not sure what happened, but I've got it all fixed up and working again.

thanks..

On November 10th, 2009 diyet (not verified) said:

hello.. i want to thanks you..
Very good article. This will really help me thank you..
can i use this article on my website?

thanx for the screencast, im

On November 14th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

thanx for the screencast, im actully beginning to feel kinda "home" now in the terminal
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404

On November 23rd, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

The video seems to be offline again.

Darn it

On November 23rd, 2009 addi said:

Wow, I have no idea why it keeps getting zapped from the files dir. Working again...