chmod Tutorial

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This is a tutorial that teaches the UNIX ®/Linux ® chmod command. It presumes that you already know how to use the ls command to list the contents of a directory. The tutorial has been tested with Mozilla version 1.8 under Linux.

What is chmod ?

chmod is a Unix command that lets you tell the system how much (or little) access it should permit to a file.

Here are all the topics:

You may download this tutorial as a gzipped tar file.

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