Re: "Program Files" folder

[David NeÄas <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:00:41PM +0100, John Emmas wrote:
> So I guess the question I'm asking is whether or not, by convention,
> /usr/local and /usr/local/bin will tend to have universal read, write
> and execute permissions.  They do in my distro but there are many
> other distros..!

Your distro is quite eccentric.  The usual convention is that mere users
have write permissions to
- anywhere in their homes
- temporary directories (/tmp, /var/tmp)
- a few other places in /var such as /var/spool/mail/$USER
- removable media mounted by the user (if permitted)

That's all as far as files representing real storage go.  You may find
some user-writable âfilesâ also in /dev, /proc and similar places.

Yeti