Directory permissions

[Karsten Radke_1]

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

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

you need to do getacl. lsacl is for hfs.

[Stephen Keane]

It is an ACL, try

# lsacl yard

instead.

[Piergiacomo Perini]

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

[Arunvijai_4]

# 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.

[Muthukumar_5]

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.

[Karsten Radke_1]

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

[Karsten Radke_1]

no further comments :-)