Directory Access Privileges

The same three types of access permissions or privileges are associated with a directory, but with some differences:

• read (r) rights to read the directory
• write (w) rights to create or remove in the directory
• execute (x) rights to access the directory

All three permissions can then be applied to each of three types of directory users as before.

• User owner/creator of the file
• Group group to which user must belong
• Others everyone else (Rest-of-world)