hi justchillin,

if you do a "ls -l" at your promt, you will get to see something like this...

"drw-r--r-x" or "-rw-r--r-x".

Here after 'd' next 3 characters represent the root. In the above case "rw-" indicate that the root has Read, and Write permissions.
Similarly you can check for your desired file as

ls -l {filename}
In your case it should be
ls -l pap-secrets

Jay.