File permissions

[V V Durga Prasad]

Hi,

ls -l command on my server is showing like
drwxrwxrwx+ 46 root sys 1024 Apr 22 22:34 opt
dr-xr-xr-x+ 12 bin bin 3072 Apr 22 16:49 sbin
drwxr-xr-x+ 28 root sys 2048 Apr 19 17:52 var

Can some one tell me how to get rid of the '+' sign after the access permissions?

Since yesterday, every thing is fine. Yesterday, I have installed about 15 patches viz.
PHKL_20165
PHKL_21210
PHKL_21678
PHKL_22494
PHKL_22589
PHKL_22759
PHKL_22777
PHKL_22856
PHKL_22975
PHKL_22976
PHKL_22986
PHKL_23002
PHKL_23127
PHKL_23180
PHKL_23813
Is this because of any one of these patches?

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Check here :-


http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x993b7b8d1de3d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html



HTH

Paula

[Deepak Extross]

The '+' is to do with ACLs.
Its quite harmless, you can ignore it.
See the section "Access Control Lists" in the man page of 'ls' for details.

[Victor_5]

"+" means ACL, for security reason, if you really want to remove it, use setacl, getacl, man them for more.

[hari jayaram_1]

durga,

I had faced this problem last year and it becomes real painful. You cannot use any of the ACL commands. It is definetly due to one of the kernel patches. The kernel patch activates JFS acl calls. If I remember right the patch which I removed was PHKL_22677. However please create a recovery tape before removing this patch if you have it.

Thanks

Regards

Hari

[Mohammad Iqbal_1]

The '+' sign represents the ACL (Access Control List) of a file. We use it to control the permission and access of a file. chmod command is file oriented, whereas ACL is user oriented.
Only HFS file system can be managed through ACL. For vxfs file system, we need to install a product, such as jfs.3.3.

The example (for HFS):
# lsacl /home/user1/file1
this command used to see the file1's ACL
# chacl 'user2.%=rw' file1
we use this command to change file1's ACL, so use2 from any group can read/write to this file.
Please see another documentation for further information.

[V V Durga Prasad]

Hi Paula,

I have followed the link you have suggested and have installed all the patches suggested over there. Unfortunately, the porblem still exists. Strangely, this time, the ls -l command is showing + sign sometimes and sometimes not..!!!

Durga