1 1 5 File Permissions 1 ****************** 1 1 Each file has a set of "permissions" that control the kinds of access 1 that users have to that file. The permissions for a file are also 1 called its "access mode". They can be represented either in symbolic 1 form or as an octal number. 1
1 · Mode Structure Structure of file permissions. · Symbolic Modes Mnemonic permissions representation. · Numeric Modes Permissions as octal numbers. 1