Hello,

When you issue the command ls in Linux you get this sort of thing:

drwxr--r--   1 fred  editors   4096  drafts
-rw-r--r--   1 fred  editors  30405  file1.php
-r-xr-xr-x   1 fred  fred      8460  file2.php

I know that the rwxrwxrwx are the read, write and execute permissions for the current user. And I think I know that 'fred' is the user who owns the file. So I assume fred can write to file1 but no one else can. But what is the extra bit 'editors' and what is the difference between file1 and file2 with respect to one having an ownership of 'fred editors' and the other 'fred fred'?

Also if a web user connects to one of the files, what is their user name and where is this decided? If the server decided that user connecting from the web was going to be fred, does this mean any web user could write to file1?

Any information welcomed, I am resaerching this but just getting confused. Thanks