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Linux permissions help

Hi

I am a newbie and trying to figure out how the file permisions work:

I see Each file has a set of 3 permissions:

Access permissions
-Owner
-Group
-Others
Ownership
-User
-Group

and
Advanced permissions:
Class    show entries   write entries   enter    special
User      x                   x                    x
Group    x                   x
Others   x                                         x         x

and so on, please could someone explain this to me or point me to a good article on the permissions.

thx
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Hi iqula,
This article is a good description of the basic file permissions:-
http://www.freeos.com/articles/3127/

The 'chmod' manual page (man chmod) also gives some usefull information.
This article gives additional infor on the s and t special permissions
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January1999/article77.html
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That clears things up a bit, are there any articles regarding setting up the filesystem so that I can lock it and the apps up as much as possible for a group of terminal users, ie an example setup?
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