topic Re: File Permission in Operating System - HP-UX

File Permission

Kurt Beyers. — Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:06:08 GMT

Hi,

I've had something strange with file permissions (OS = HP-UX 11.0). When I do a 'ls -l', all the file permissions end with a '+'.So I've created a new file 'test' to see if it had the same behaviour.

When I do a 'ls -l test', the permissions are rw-r--r-- so that is normal.

However when I do 'ls -l | grep test', the permissions are rw-r--r--+. What does the + mean?

I've got the same behaviour for every file on the server. I'm quit curious for the reason.

Thanks,
Kurt

Re: File Permission

Victor_5 — Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:00:43 GMT

It is ACL. ACL are a key enforcement mechanism of discretionary access control, for specifying access to files by users and groups more selectively than traditional HP-UX mechanisms allow. Man ls, acl.

Also check your umask.

Re: File Permission

Kurt Beyers. — Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:58:34 GMT

Thanks, can the ACL be enabled/disabled?

Re: File Permission

Wodisch — Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:03:46 GMT

Hi,

depending on your file-system type and version the commands are:
- lsacl
- chacl
- getacl
- setacl

HTH,
Wodisch

Re: File Permission

Kurt Beyers. — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 06:36:39 GMT

OK I've got it. The trailing + indicates that ACL has been set for the files. However, we didn't do this, so I'll have to update the patches.

Kurt