From dfc56d93465b2f43f2c72d89d77bdd32f3e13768 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: oalicein Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:23:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed a couple punctuation-related typos and added a sentence for clarity. --- Basic UNIX Security the Tilde way.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Basic UNIX Security the Tilde way.md b/Basic UNIX Security the Tilde way.md index a465a33..1c462d7 100644 --- a/Basic UNIX Security the Tilde way.md +++ b/Basic UNIX Security the Tilde way.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ If it bugs you that someone might be able to look the files in your home directo cd ~ chmod 711 . -Those will keep anyone on the system from looking at your directory while still allowing your `~youruser` site to work. If you want to have more control over who can view what in your directory, then please read on. You can even come back and read this later, we'll be here. +Those will keep anyone else from looking at your directory while still allowing your `~youruser` site to work. If you want to have more control over who can view what in your directory, then please read on. You can even come back and read this later, we'll be here. ### Users and Groups @@ -20,16 +20,16 @@ There are several attributes that define a user. - user id (or uid) This is your unique numerical id number on the system. This is how the system keeps track of you, your processes, and your files. - group id (or gid) - This is a unique numerical id number for your primary user group on the system. User groups are the traditional way that users would colaberate on large projects. + This is a unique numerical id number for your primary user group on the system. User groups are the traditional way that users would collaborate on large projects. -For now we only need to know about the username +For now we only need to know about the username. #### Welcome to tilde.club, your new home (and homedir) When you registered for the system, you got an email that contained many things. One of those things was a username, and another was a password. When you logged into the server you were presented with what we call a prompt, and it looked a bit like this: sh-4.1$ -That's boring so type the command `ls -l my_file` +That's boring. So let's do something with it. Type the command `ls -l my_file` sh-4.1$ ls -l my_file rw-rw-r-- 1 youruser youruser 177 Oct 13 04:51 my_file