Of these, the user class is the creator/owner of a file, whereas the group represents a set of different users on a system that share the same privileges, and the others refers to users that are neither the owner nor a member of any group. MacOS allows you to manage these permissions for three classes on your Mac, namely user, group, and others. When set for directories, it enables access to a directory’s content (subdirectories and files) and provides the search functionality to access a file’s content - granted the file also has the read permission. Execute: Grants the ability to execute a (program) file.For directories, it works by offering the ability to modify entries in a directory to allow creating, renaming, and deleting files.
When used with directories, this permission provides the ability to view a directory’s name but not its content. Having been derived from the Unix operating system, macOS supports the Unix permissions set, which includes the following permissions: To begin with, let’s first take a look at the file and directory permissions offered by macOS.
