file/folder perms permissions

Jos Chrispijn dovecot at cloudzeeland.nl
Thu Aug 4 17:47:15 UTC 2016


In een bericht van 4-8-2016 17:05:

> I am a bit confused. I manually messed with some files, and my MUA
> complained about permissions. So I got that mess fixed, and in doing so
> I noticed the seemingly contradictory permissions.

I can imagine the confusion. It all is depending on who/what installed 
the software. You have root/system permissions, user related and group 
related permissions.

Do not change permissions unless you know what you are doing!

/Jos


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