Group Permissions

The next three letters after the user's permission are the group's permissions.

-rwx r-x r-x  joe  acctg  archive.sh 
-rw- rw- r--  joe  acctg  orgchart.gif
-rw- rw- r--  joe  acctg  personnel.txt
-rw- r-- r--  joe  acctg  publicity.html
drwx rwx r-x  joe  acctg  sales
-rw- r-- ---  joe  acctg  topsecret.inf
-rwx r-x r-x  joe  acctg  wordmatic

Other people in the acctg group can not write the archive.sh script, publicity.html and topsecret.inf files, or wordmatic program.

They may write the orgchart.gif and personnel.txt, files, as well as the sales directory.

They may execute archive.sh and wordmatic, and search the sales directory.

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