Changing Permissions

The chmod command lets you change the permissions of a file or directory. It's short for "change mode" (I wish it was called "change permissions", but alas).

Assignment

As part of your security audit, you need to know who has access to the files in the private directory. The ls command has a -l option (lowercase "L") that will print out the permissions of each file and directory in long format.

List the files in the worldbanc/private directory along with their permissions using ls -l so you can see the current state of affairs.
Change the permissions of the private directory and all of its contents so that:
- The owner can read, write, and execute
- The group can do nothing
- Others can do nothing

chmod -R u=rwx,g=,o= DIRECTORY

In the command above, u means "user" (aka "owner"), g means "group", and o means "others". The = means "set the permissions to the following", and the rwx means "read, write and execute". The g= and o= mean "set group and other permissions to nothing". The -R means "recursively", which means "do this to all of the contents of the directory as well".

Be sure to replace DIRECTORY with the path to the private directory.

Remember, . is a special alias for the current directory.

Once you've changed the permissions, run the ls -l command again to make sure they've been updated.

Paste only the 10-character permission string of the updated private directory itself (not its contents) into the input field and submit your answer.

Tip

If you're using WSL and chmod is not updating the permissions: your worldbanc directory may not be within your Linux subsystem. You can either move the directory or adjust your wsl.conf file to allow for editing permissions.