Setting file permissions

…In this movie, we'll learn how to set and…check the permissions of a directory and a file.…Setting file permissions can be a little…bit tricky because it's a little bit different…on every system and because the default configurations…can be a little bit different for everyone.…So, I'm going to give you some general guidelines,…but you may have to adapt these depending on…what operating system you're using and what configurations you…might have set on your web server, such as Apache.…Typically, file permissions are divided into…three categories, user, group, and other.…User is the owner of the file, the person who originally created the file.…

Then there's group, which is a group that should also…have access to the file and have sets of privileges.…And then other, which is everyone else in the whole world.…And those privileges are usually divided into…three different types, read, write, and execute.…Can you read the contents of the file?…Can you write more content to the file or overwrite the file?…And can you execute the file?…