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Customizing your environment

Default file permissions

You have already seen how the UNIX system uses file and directory permissions to control who can access which files. So far, you have learned to manipulate these permissions using symbolic mode, like:

chmod a+x newfile

This says, ``Change the mode of newfile so all users have execute permission.'' Before you learn how to control a file's default permissions, you need to understand how to specify permissions using absolute mode.


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