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Permissions

Graphic User Interface

Follow these steps to access a graphic user interface (GUI) for managing permissions on files and folders:

• Right click on the file or folder.
• On the menu that appears, click the Properties menu item.
• Click the Permissions tab.

Folder Permissions

The following is an example of folder permissions in the GUI:

File:Docs Drafts AdministrationGuide Permissions PermissionsGUI folder1.png

The following table describes the Folder Access permissions. Changes to Folder Access permissions take immediate effect:

Create and delete files	read, write, and execute
Access files	read and execute
List files only	read
None	no permissions, all actions are denied

The following table describes File Access permissions. This allows finer-grained control of files within directories. Changes to File Access permissions take effect only after clicking the Apply permissions to enclosed files button.

Read and write	read and write
Read-only	read

When the File Access is set to ---, clicking Apply permissions to enclosed files keeps the current file permissions without changing them.

If the Execute: Allow executing file as program box is ticked, execute permissions are applied for everyone to files within that directory. If the Execute: Allow executing file as program box is not ticked, and you click the Apply permissions to enclosed files button, execute permissions are not removed from files within that directory.

If you are a member of a Secondary Group, change the group owner using the Groupdrop-down menu.

File Access Permissions

After closing and re-opening the properties window for a file or directory, the File Access permissions appear as ---. Your permissions are still set. Use the ls -l [foldername] command to view the file access permissions. If you are already in the [foldername] directory, use the ls -l command.

File Permissions

The following is an example of file permissions:

File:Docs Drafts AdministrationGuide Permissions PermissionsGUI file1.png

The following table describes the Access permissions for files. Changes to Access permissions take immediate effect:

Read-only	read
Read and write	read and write
None	no permissions, all actions are denied

Ticking the Execute: Allow executing file as program box applies execute permissions for everyone to the file.

If you are a member of a Secondary Group you can change the group owner using the Group drop-down menu.

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