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In other words, ‘User’ is a single user, Group is a collection of users and Other consists of all the users on
the system.

File permissions in Linux

Every file and directory in Linux has the following three permissions for all the three kinds of owners:
Permissions for files

· Read – Can view or copy file contents
· Write – Can modify file content

· Execute – Can run the file (if its executable)
Permissions for directories

· Read – Can list all files and copy the files from directory
· Write – Can add or delete files into directory (needs execute permission as well)

· Execute – Can enter the directory