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Web host permissions

Web host permissions

- [Instructor] After you start playing around in the command line, it probably won't be long before you get a response that looks something like this. I type in cd /lost+found. And I'm told that permission has been denied. Other times you might find that a webpage that you created isn't available or it just doesn't look right because the web server doesn't have the right access permissions. Every file and directory has three sets of permissions. The first is for the individual account that owns the file. The second is for the group that that file belongs to. And then the third is for everybody else. These are known as the user, group, and other permissions. Remember those initial letters because they'll be important later. U, G and O. Each of these can have permissions to read the file, write to the file, and execute or run the file. Again remember the letters, r for read, w for write, and x, not e, for execute. When…

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