Linux: Files and Permissions
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Linux: Files and Permissions at Linkedin Learning Overview
Duration | 3 hours |
Total fee | ₹1,150 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Linux: Files and Permissions at Linkedin Learning Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion
Linux: Files and Permissions at Linkedin Learning Course details
- In this course, computer science instructor and Linux enthusiast Grant McWilliams explains how to manage files and directories, create links, and set permissions in Enterprise Linux 8
- Grant covers how to maintain access control to files through the standard Linux permission system and access control lists
- He also shows how to grant or revoke access to files and directories for users and groups as well as how to set up special bits for privilege escalation, global writable directories, and permission inheritance
Linux: Files and Permissions at Linkedin Learning Curriculum
Introduction
Manage files and permissions in Linux
What you should know
Get help with commands
Using the exercise files
Reconfigure or migrate CentOS
Linux Files
What is a file?
Getting information about files
About extended attributes
Getting extended attributes
About file globs
Using character classes
Using globs to match files
Matching with brace expansion
The Magic of extended globs
Matching files with extended globs
Advanced extended globs
Manage Linux Files
Understanding filesystem paths
Creating files and dirs
Copying files and dirs
Moving and renaming files and dirs
Deleting files and dirs
Creating links to files and dirs
Making file manipulation safe
Challenge: Linux files
Solution: Linux files
Linux Permissions
Standard Linux permissions overview
File and directory modes
File ownership
Permissions using numeric notation
Permissions using symbolic notation
Initial permissions using umask
Special file bits: SUID and SGID
Special directory bits: SGID and Sticky
Challenge: Permissions
Solution: Permissions
Access Control Lists
ACL overview
Read ACLs
Setting ACLs
Manage Default ACLs
Delete ACLs
ACL tricks
Challenge: ACLs
Solution: ACLs
Conclusion
Next steps
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