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chown user:group && chmod 777

the bold nuumber is the one you want to concern yourself with

let me explain; The 3 numbers represent, from left to right, your permissions, your group's permissions, and everybody else. The number themselves indicate the restrictiveness of the permissions, from 7 (do what you want) to 0 (as MC hammer might put it, you can't touch this). The above example changes the permissions so everyone can do what they will to the file

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