Linux: File Permissions and Ownership

Using chmod and chown to work with permissions and ownership

Users familiar with Linux based operating systems should have at least once come across issues related to Permission denied when executing some commands in the terminal. This article aims to shed some light on user permissions and ownership related to files and directories.

In order to get an introduction to permissions and ownership, in the terminal, navigate to a location where files resides and execute ls -al to list files and…