Users and Privileges

Looking at the screenshot a "-" means its a file if we se a "d" it is a directory rwxr Read Write Execute

When doing pentesting, we're looking for a folder we can drop files in a directory that has full permissions i.e the /tmp/ folder on Linux

chmod this command can be used to change permissions 777 = full read write chmod 777 hello.txt will change the permissions of hello.txt to full read/write

Add a new user command adduser adduser john cat /etc/passwd to find new users added, this file contains all the users /etc/shadow contains the passwords

switch users command su su john

sudoers file contains users with root access