topic Re: Directory permissions in Operating System - HP-UX

Directory permissions

Karsten Radke_1 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:45:59 GMT

Hi fellows,

i've just a question regarding directory perms within UX11.11

When doing an "ls -l", i get the follwing output:

drwxr-xr-x+ 4 yard ddtsusr 8192 Apr 26 16:32 yard

I would like to know what the "plus" sign behind the permission mask means. It does not seem to be an ACL, because an 'lsacl -l' produces an error:

abctest2:/home# lsacl -l yard
lsacl: file "yard": Function is not available (errno = 251)

TIA,
Karsten

Re: Directory permissions

RAC_1 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:55:57 GMT

you need to do getacl. lsacl is for hfs.

Re: Directory permissions

Stephen Keane — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:56:27 GMT

It is an ACL, try

# lsacl yard

instead.

Re: Directory permissions

Piergiacomo Perini — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:56:32 GMT

Hi Karsten,
reading "man ls" the "+" seems
to be regarding optional ACL entries
(I don't know the cause for error in your "lsacl").

regards
pg

Re: Directory permissions

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:59:30 GMT

# man ls 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. The permissions shown are a summary representation of the file's access control list, as returned by stat() in the st_mode field (see stat(2)). To list the contents of an access control list, use the lsacl command (see lsacl(1) and acl(5)) for HFS file systems, or the getacl command (see getacl(1) and aclv(5)) for JFS file systems.

Re: Directory permissions

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:59:32 GMT

Check the file system type. If it is hfs use lsacl else use getacl first.

# lsacl /stand/vmunix -- > HFS fs

I hope /home will be in vxfs else check with bdf -t vxfs. If /home is there use getacl as,

getacl /home/yard

<-- chmod man page says -->
If a file seems to be missing from a directory, use ls -H to determine
the cause. Recovery is accomplished by the addition of a + to the
dirname:

chmod u-H dirname+

hth.

Re: Directory permissions

Karsten Radke_1 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:37:33 GMT

Thanks so far to everyone!

The 'getacl" instead of 'lsacl' was the key. I forgot to mention that the underlying Filesystem is vxfs.

Greetings,
Karsten

Re: Directory permissions

Karsten Radke_1 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:41:32 GMT

no further comments :-)