How to manage access to files and directories using chmod and chown. Linux uses permission and group system just like other posix (unix-like) operating systems.
Compared to ACL, Linux permission system benefits are simplicity and automatic showing up in listings. Downsides are that it is not possible (or easy) to do complex permissions.
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tee tee 0 Aug 16 17:13 terosfile
Tested with redhat 9.0 Shrike.
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