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Who are "others" in Linux permissions, and what does "execute" mean?

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I could not find the answers on these three questions: Who is "others", if we give all services on our server a user, "others" don't exist right? For example, if we put Apache to a user, and we set chowned to , and we enter it should work, right? What is the difference between "execute" and "read"?…

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Who is "others", if we give all services on our server a user, "others" don't exist right? For example, if we put Apache to a user, and we set chowned to , and we enter it should work, right? Here's how the permissions work, explained in a very brie…

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