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File permission question

Masaki Birchmier — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:05:43 GMT

Does anyone know what the "+" means as in...
drwxrwxr_x+
It appeared on a directory structure that's also a Samba share.
How do I get rid of it?

Masaki

Re: File permission question

Helen French — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:07:27 GMT

A + sign means that the particular file has some additional permissions with it. For eg: ACL (access control list) permissions.

If it's ACL permissions, you can check it with 'lsacl' command. Also in shares, you can check the permission from Windows sessions or from SWAT in CIFS.

Re: File permission question

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:08:00 GMT

The + at the end means you are using ALCs (Access Control Lists) to grant / deny more permissions to that particular directory.

Have a look at man pages for the 'getacl' and 'setacl' commands for more information.

Re: File permission question

Dave Hutton — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:08:55 GMT

The ls man page says:

Access Control Lists (ACLs)
If a file has optional ACL entries, the -l (ell) option displays a
plus sign (+) after the file's permissions.

Dave

Re: File permission question

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:10:54 GMT

This means that Access Control Lists (ACL's) attributes have been set for this file/directory.

If this is a vxfs filesystem, you use setacl to "get rid" of it; otherwise a chacl command is used. Man getacl, setacl, lsacl, chacl as appropriate. Generally, ACL's are set for a reason so know what you are doing.

Re: File permission question

Ashwani Kashyap — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:11:02 GMT

+ sign means there are additional acces permissions granted to that file or directory other than the regular -rwx for owner , group and others . These are called ACL or access control lists .

If its JFS do
#getacl filename or directory name to see the additional access granted .

Re: File permission question

Masaki Birchmier — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:40:30 GMT

Thanks All,
That's what I needed, I'll take it from here...

Masaki