What is chmod 755 and 700
chmod is Linux command used to change file permissions. chmod changes user, group and other read, write and execute permission. chmod 755 is popular use case for chmod . chmod 755 is generally used to make most of the operations without problem because it provides ease for system administrators while running applications.
755
755 can be separated as
7user can read, write, execute5group can read and execute5others can read and execute
rwxr-xr-x
Another presentation form for 755 is rwxr-xr-x .
Sudo
We can also use chmod 755 with sudo . In some situations we must use sudo because our current user rights will not meet required privileges.
1 | $ sudo chmod 755 bin |
