How To Show User Permissions On Linux

welcome to Webune Webhosting. We provide Linux Dedicated Servers to many of our clients, at the same time we provide support. one popular question we get is "how can you check and see what permission a user has in a linux server"

this short tutorial will show you what you need to do in order to find out the permission a user has in your linux computer. this is important if you are a system admin, you must know how to manage your users properly for security

the first step is to login to your linux shell using a SSH session. then login are super user

after you have logged in, send the command to display the users, their groups and permission in your system

cat /etc/passwd

thats it, this command will show you a list of all the users currently in your system