permission

n 1: approval to do something; "he asked permission to leave"

2: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

[syn: {license}, {permit}]

permission

(Or "file mode") An access privelege (e.g. read,

write, execute) associated with a {file} or {directory}.

Depending on the {operating system}, each file may have

different permissions for different kinds of access and

different users or groups of users.

{chmod} ("change mode") is the {UNIX} command to change

permissions.

(1997-04-08)