Explain the read, write, and execute permissions on a UNIX
directory.

Answer Posted / venkatarao

chmod 777
7--->owner permissions
7--->group permissions
7--->other permissins
by defualt permissions are 755 means owner by default
read,write and execute permissins
the format of permissions are
-rwxr-xr-x
- indicates it's dirctory we mention d and file donot
mention any option.

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