Installing new scripts-problem 2

[cian]

Hi guys, I am having a serious problem installing new scripts (yes i'm a newbie!)
I think the problem is just permissions, i need to change the permission of many of the files to either 777 or 755.
However to change the permissions all I have is the following:

Owner | Group | Others
s r w x | s r w x | t r w x

Can anyone explain what is what, please?

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[zephan]

Under Unix, files have owner, the owner is the user who created the file (it can be a physical person or a part of the system.
The file can be related also to a group of users. The remaining users, who are not the owner and not within the group are called others.
For example, you can create a file, keep for you all the rights on the file, give to a particular group only read privilege, and forbid the access to the file for any other user with the command :

chmod 740 filename (or chmod filename 740, always confused about that)

The former digit (7 : binary 111) means all privileges for user (wich are r:read, w:write, and x:execute).

ok, what you need to do, is to give all the users who are authorized to use the script, the read and execute right, plus the modify (write) privilege to the owner.
use :

chmod filename 755

 

[cian]

Hi zephan, thanks for the explanation.
I think i'm beginning to understand,
so on my system if i select "rwx" thats setting the permission to 777? How then for 755. The confusion lies in the fact that I only have tick boxes, thats where I get lost


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[LightElf]

man chmod
or

http://www.sbras.ru/cgi-bin/www/unix_help/unix-man?chmod+1

7 read/write/execute for owner
5 read//execute for group
5 read//execute for others

 

[cian]

Thanks again zephan, figured it out from what you said!!
Thanks LightElf, i appreciate your help, thx for the link!!



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