permissive

adj 1: not preventive [ant: {preventive}]

2: granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict

in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely

permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents"

[ant: {unpermissive}]

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)