chmod ow means that you are going to give others the write permission WITHOUT altering user and group permissions You can use chmod ugorwx to give 777 permision, chmod urwx,go= to give 700, chmod ur,gw,ox to give a permission that if user didn't have the read permission so it will have and will not alter any other user permission, if group had the writeI always use chmod ox file # all eXecute permissions chmod gw file # group write perms chmod u=r file # user can just read chmod ug=rw file # user,group = read and write chmod aw file # user,group,others writeChmod is quite simple to use while using octal notation The structure of the command is simply chmod chmod usage example Chmod Calculator Summarized By Plex Page Content Summarization Chmod octal calculator
