Re: more permission problem

Mahadi Hasan wrote:
Thank you for your help.
Sorry, I mistakenly wrote that I could not change permissions of the
folders/files in my home directory mounted in root (/) directory.
But there are some things I need to know about.
I checked out the permissions of folders/files in my home directory on
the command line, and I found that all the folders (Documents, Music,
Public etc.) have permission like this: drwxr-xr-x,
and, only one folder named Examples which has permission like this:
lrwxrwxrwx, and a file which was created by me has permission like
this: -rw-r--r--.
My questions are:
1. What do d and l at the beginning of the permission mean?
2. Why can't I access the Examples folder, and even change the
permission? How do I change the permission of this folder?
3. Why isn't there anything like d or l at the beginning of the
permission of the file?


I think I can shed light on 1) and 3):

d is a directory
l is a link
- is an ordinary file.

Sorry, I have no idea about question 2).

I hope that helps a bit. :@)

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