On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:46:53AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > IIRC, the "." at the end of the permissions indicates that the file has > additional permission controls beyond the standard DAC bits, such as > filesystem ACLs, filesystem capabilities, or other attributes. FACLs are normally indicated by a + at the end of the permissions. $ ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x 2 sweh sweh 4096 Jul 31 06:38 ./ $ setfacl -m user:named:- . $ ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x+ 2 sweh sweh 4096 Jul 31 06:38 ./ [note the +] $ getfacl . # file: . # owner: sweh # group: sweh user::rwx user:named:--- group::r-x mask::r-x other::r-x Attributes ("chattr") don't get shown by any special character $ ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x 2 sweh sweh 4096 Jul 31 06:41 ./ $ chattr +d . $ ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x 2 sweh sweh 4096 Jul 31 06:41 ./ $ lsattr -ad . ------d------ . -- rgds Stephen _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos