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Access - A Program to Interpret Pathname Access
Permissions for the UNIX* Operating System
Stephen J. Mahler
David A. Curry
Engineering Computer Network
School of Electrical Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
ABSTRACT
The program described in this paper, access,
was written to help users interpret the permis-
sions set on their files by showing in a concise
format who may read, write, execute, and remove a
given file. Rather than simply reporting the per-
missions on the file itself, access takes into
account the permission bits set on the directories
which lead to the file. This results in a correct
listing of exactly who may access the file,
whereas reporting the permissions on the file
alone does not.
October 1984
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* UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
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