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What you'll do
Many people don't realize that there is more to the Linux permission functionality than the basic user, group, and everyone permissions with read, write, and execute.
To basic permissions, there are also Capabilities and Access Control Lists
Capabilities are a way of delegating root permissions in tiny chunks
Access Control Lists allow finer grained control of permissions
Many of these features make use of extended attributes, which we will cover first
