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Linux File Permissions
What permissions a user will have is determined:
- If the user the owner of the file and/or directory, then the user rights are used.
- If the user is not the owner but is a part of the group owning the file and/or directory, then the group rights are used.
- If the user is neither the owner nor a part of the group owning the file, then the other rights are used.
Once the access rights level is determined, the actual rights (rwx) are then identified and used for any command or process the user wishes to implement on the file and/or directory.