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Permission Part 2: Read/Write/Execute

August 19th, 2009 by sbaldwin | 1 comment

Part 1 is here.
The printed institution of intellectual property holds that works cannot be reproduced “without prior written permission” (as the legalese runs). The printed work at hand is always documentary evidence of the printer’s permission for that work, whereas any additional permission – the permission of the subject to write and read in the [...]

Permission Part 1: chmod -777

August 18th, 2009 by sbaldwin | 3 comments

Am I permitted to write? The chmod – 777 command opens all files and directories to the world. Set permissions to 777 and anyone can call the system to read, write, and execute.
Did you chmod -777? Do you permit me to, do you give permission? To write it to have permission, and this is true [...]