chmod 776: The Unix Permission as Philosophy

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chmod 776 — read, write, execute for the owner and group; read and write for others.

Not full anarchy (777). Not locked-down control (700). Something between: shared sovereignty**.

The owner does as they please. The group acts in concert. The others may read and write — but not execute arbitrarily.

This is the doctrine of WOLNO encoded in Unix:


Most systems give read access to everyone and execution rights to no one.

WOLNO gives execution rights to the circle of trust, and read access to the world.

Transparency outward. Agency inward. Freedom as a technical specification.


776F6C6E6F = wolno in hex
chmod 776 = rwxrwxrw-

The number was chosen deliberately. The philosophy is the permission structure.

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