User & groups: freeBSD

Table 3.2. UNIX® Permissions

Symbolic permission

Users and groups stored in /etc/group and /etc/passwd. To print:
# awk -F":" '{print $1}' /etc/passwd
# awk -F":" '{print $1}' /etc/group

Assigning ownership to a particular user of a group:
# chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/apache24/life110volts.com

Give file access permission:
# chmod -R  /usr/local/www/apache24/life110volts.com

To see the file list with the permission:
root@freebsd:/ # ls -la /usr/local/www/apache24/life110volts.com
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel     512 Dec 30 10:45 ..

Meaning:
-d:file/directory, First:owner, second: group, third:world

Users and Basic Account Management

chown - Unix, Linux Command

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