Setting the appropriate access rights to your files

• After you create a folder (e.g. project0),

  cd
  mkdir cs241
  cd cs241
  mkdir project0
  

  with
  

  chmod 700 project0
  

  or

  chmod go-rwx project0
  

  To get detalied help for the chmod command, type chmod --help
  You can inspect access rights to the folder with

  ls -al
  

  Check the access attributes in the first column of the listing; it should look like the following:

  drwx------    3 radu     cs241graders     4096 Sep  2 18:34 project0
  



• You can also use the umask command (in your ~/.cshrc file, preferably) to assign these rights automatically, whenever you create a new file or folder:

   umask 007