On 2012-09-17 12:46, nappy501 wrote:
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> robin_listas;2487829 Wrote:
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>> …And besides that, read a book on unix/linux permissions
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> Off to find the Dummy’s version:)
Good question. I should have a link to a good one, but I haven’t.
There is a package you can find in yast that contains some books from the LDP. Some are about
programming, but there is one named “The Linux User’s Guide” which looks promissing, but it is
not searchable, I was not able to find the chapter about permissions and users/groups.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I do not like at all using numeric permissions such as “chmod 600 file”. This is completely
not-simple, certainly not the “unix for dummies” principle - instead of saying “chmod u-r,g+r”
which is easier to read.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
IMO, ‘Dummies’ should also spend a year or two (or more) learning Unix basics with one distro instead of multi-booting openSUSE, Mandriva, Linux Mint, Puppy Linux and another distro I never heard about, and WIndows (see menu.lst in post #1) … and opening a thread with the title “How do I mount a partition?”. Sound’s rather like a joke or the wrong learning method.
>On 2012-09-17 14:06, please try again wrote:
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>> ‘How Unix security works’
>> (http://tille.garrels.be/training/unix/x262.html)
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>I do not like at all using numeric permissions such as “chmod 600 file”.This is completely
>not-simple, certainly not the “unix for dummies” principle - instead of saying “chmod u-r,g+r”
>which is easier to read.
Interesting. Carlos, i find numeric permissions much easier to read, but
i have been doing unix/linux since about 1980. And it was mostly CLI back
then. I think i saw my first X about 1985. So it is a matter of
experience to me, i completely understood the bit mapped nature of the
permissions from the git-go.
I find the numeric mode easier too. I already used octal permissions under Unix when I was a newbie … but I don’t think I ever was a ‘dummy’. Maybe that’s why. lol!
>> Interesting. Carlos, i find numeric permissions much easier to read,
>> but
>> i have been doing unix/linux since about 1980. And it was mostly CLI
>> back
>> then. I think i saw my first X about 1985. So it is a matter of
>> experience to me, i completely understood the bit mapped nature of the
>> permissions from the git-go.
>>
>> ?-)
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> I find the numeric mode easier too. I already used octal permissions
> under Unix when I was a newbie … but I don’t think I ever was a
> ‘dummy’. Maybe that’s why. lol!
But you both understand “programesse” :-p
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
>On 2012-09-18 09:46, please try again wrote:
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>>> Interesting. Carlos, i find numeric permissions much easier to read,
>>> but
>>> i have been doing unix/linux since about 1980. And it was mostly CLI
>>> back
>>> then. I think i saw my first X about 1985. So it is a matter of
>>> experience to me, i completely understood the bit mapped nature of the
>>> permissions from the git-go.
>>>
>>> ?-)
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>> I find the numeric mode easier too. I already used octal permissions
>> under Unix when I was a newbie … but I don’t think I ever was a
>> ‘dummy’. Maybe that’s why. lol!
>
>But you both understand “programesse” :-p
Not particularly for me, but i have been doing digital for fun since 1965.
I relate rather strongly to bits and bit fields and the like. Oh, and i
do binary/octal/hex conversions in my head automatically.
