The objective of this project was to enhance system security by properly configuring file and directory permissions in a Linux environment. By analyzing existing permissions and making necessary ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...

This project is part of the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate program. The lab demonstrates how to use Linux commands to configure file and directory authorization. As a security analyst, ...

Just as your office file cabinets should be off-limits to competitors and snoops, access to the files on your company's computers should be restricted as well. The CentOS operating system enables you ...

Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have. Keeping your files private from anyone but those with superuser (root) access is easy on ...

Control who can access files, search directories, and run scripts using the Linux's chmod command. This command modifies Linux file permissions, which look complicated at first glance but are actually ...