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Chmod & Chown Calculator
Tick the permissions you want and get the exact chmod command — numeric and symbolic at the same time. Paste an existing value to find out what it actually grants.
Permissions
Who can do what
Owner is the user who owns the file. Group is everyone in the file's group. Other is everybody else on the system.
| Class | Read | Write | Execute |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | |||
| Group | |||
| Other |
Result
Numeric
755
Symbolic
rwxr-xr-x
Reads as
Owner: read, write, execute · Group: read, execute · Other: read, execute
chmod command
chmod 755 /var/www/wespner
Ownership
chown / chgrp
Permissions decide what each class may do. Ownership decides who is in those classes.
chown command
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/wespner
Presets
Common setups, and why they use those values
These aren't magic numbers — each one exists for a specific reason.
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