CS1101: Laboratory 3a

A `chmod` Tutorial

Academic Year 2006-2007

Lecturer: Dr. Barry O'Sullivan
Department of Computer Science
University College Cork

b.osullivan@cs.ucc.ie

Objective of this Lab

To familiarise students with file permissions under the UNIX operating system. In particular to learn how to use the chmod command.

Background: The Tutorial

This tutorial was developed by David Eisenberg. The tutorial itself comprises a series of lessions that you could carry interactively with the tutorial web-site out during the lab time allocated to you.

Tasks

This is a two part tutorial. Another exercise will be circulated to you for the second of your lab sessions this week. The first exercise that you must complete in the first hour of your lab is to:

Complete the Online cdmod tutorial on the basics.