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Do you have to give permissions to all directories?
As was pointed out, it is not enough to just give the correct permissions to the directory where the files are, you also need to make sure all the directories leading up to that directory have the correct permissions, especially the ability for “other” to “search” and look for the directory and the files.
Do you need permission to LS or CD into a directory?
This is the behavior that is expected. In order to ls or cd into a directory, you need execute permissions. While you don’t have them, you can not really inspect the content and see the permissions of the files inside, so most probably the file permissions are wrong themselves, if you can not cat them.
How to set a file to this drwxrwsrwx permission?
This implicitly means chmod 0777, would apply rwxrwxrwx, and is significantly different from rwxrwsrwx. The permission rwxrwsrwx can be applied with:
What does it mean to have rwx permission in Linux?
In your example, the user owner and everyone permissions are rwx, which means that the user owner and everyone have permission to read, write, and execute the object.
What happens when I change the permission of a group?
Changing a permission for a group changes that permission for all users who are members of that group. In other words, depending on the size of the group, you might affect the ability of hundreds of users to do their jobs by changing just one permission. So make sure you understand the impact before you make a change.
How does permission management work in Active Directory?
All users added to any security group are added to the Valid Users group. A valid user is someone who can connect to a project, collection, or organization. Permission management controls access to specific functional tasks at different levels of the system.
How are permissions, access, and security groups are managed?
Permission management controls access to specific functional tasks at different levels of the system. Object-level permissions set permissions on a file, folder, build pipeline, or a shared query. Permission settings correspond to Allow, Deny, Inherited allow, Inherited deny, and Not set.