chmod Visor

Tick a permission grid or type the mode instead: octal (0755), symbolic (rwxr-xr-x, or a pasted drwxr-xr-x), or a change like u+x or go-w.

This is generated in browser and is not sent to pah.moi servers.

The chmod Visor needs JavaScript to decode a mode in your browser. It is client-only. The same decode, the same alerts and the same symbolic and change input are available offline via the chmod-cli command-line tool: chmod-cli --dir 1777, chmod-cli rwxr-xr-x, chmod-cli --base 644 u+x,go-w.

About this tool2 paragraphs

The grid covers owner, group and others across read, write and execute, plus setuid, setgid and sticky. The grid and the text forms are two views of one mode, so editing either updates the other.

Say whether the mode is for a file or a directory and the tool answers in that vocabulary: execute means run it on a file and enter it on a directory, and the auditor alerts flag risky modes (world-writable, setuid on something anyone can write, a shared directory with no sticky bit) in plain language.

Use it locally This tool has a native command line twin. Build chmod-cli from the site's source with:

cargo build --release --bin chmod-cli

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