if we see d at first it means its a directory and - means its a file
wxr - write excetuable read
How to give something executable privileges
777 gives us all read write executable permissions
chmod +x hello.txt gives the file executble permision
chmod +rwx hello.txt
chmod 777 hello.txt
chmod +x hello.txt
To add new users you use
adduser nameofuser
To get list of the users we do this -
cat /etc/passwd
It shows us all the users (It doesnt provide the password that is in th shadow file)
cat /etc/shadow
This is will show you do a list of hashed passwords and then you can use that in hashcat and try to get the actuall password out of the hashed password.