- 1). Click on the main applications menu for your distribution.
- 2). Click on the "Terminal" or "Konsole" menu option to open a terminal window and access a command prompt.
- 3). Type the command "ls -ld directory" to list the permissions of a directory. Replace "directory" with the name of the directory for which you want the information.
The output will look like:
drwxr-xr-x 4 user user 4096 2011-05-27 23:22 directory/
The are located in the first column. The "d" stands for directory. The second through fourth characters represent the owner's permissions. The fifth through seventh characters represent the group permissions. The final three characters represent the permissions for everyone else (other). - 4). Type the command "exit" to close the terminal window.
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