Odd permission string. What's it mean?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:08:42PM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> This is a new one on me:
> 
> digimer at akane:/media/disk$ ls -lah
> total 3.6G
> drwxr-xr-x  9 digimer digimer 4.0K 2008-05-12 10:42 .
> drwxr-xr-x  7 root    root    4.0K 2008-05-12 11:01 ..
> -rw-------+ 1 digimer digimer 1.6K 2008-05-01 13:29 anaconda-ks.cfg.1
> -rw-------+ 1 digimer digimer 1.7K 2008-05-01 14:18 anaconda-ks.cfg.2
> -rw-------  1 digimer digimer 2.1K 2008-05-06 09:04 anaconda-ks.cfg.3
> drwxr-xr-x  2 digimer digimer 4.0K 2008-05-12 10:21 c4_rpms
> drwxr-xr-x  2 digimer digimer 4.0K 2008-05-12 10:20 c5_rpms
> drwxr-xr-x+ 7 digimer digimer 4.0K 2008-05-12 10:21 cc_cd1
> drwxr-xr-x+ 2 digimer digimer 4.0K 2008-05-01 13:40 cc_cd2
> -rw-r--r--  1 digimer digimer 3.6G 2008-05-01 12:01 
> CentOS-5.1-i386-bin-DVD.iso
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 digimer digimer 8.3K 2008-05-06 09:04 install
> -rw-r--r--  1 digimer digimer  747 2008-05-06 09:04 install.conf
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 digimer digimer  75K 2008-05-06 09:04 install.lib
> -rw-r--r--  1 digimer digimer  857 2008-05-06 09:04 install.requirements
> -rw-r--r--  1 digimer digimer  29K 2008-05-06 09:04 install.words
> drwxr-xr-x  2 digimer digimer 4.0K 2008-05-01 16:08 kickstart
> -rwx------  1 digimer digimer 2.1K 2008-05-12 10:42 ks.cfg
> -rw-r--r--  1 digimer digimer  223 2008-05-06 09:13 labzilla.conf
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 digimer digimer 1.7K 2008-05-08 21:21 labzilla_install.pl
> -rw-r--r--  1 digimer digimer 9.7K 2008-05-12 10:17 labzilla.lib
> -rw-r--r--  1 digimer digimer 2.6K 2008-05-06 09:45 labzilla.words
> drwx------  2 digimer digimer  16K 2008-04-30 17:11 lost+found
> drwxr-xr-x  2 digimer digimer 4.0K 2008-05-08 21:07 TB
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 digimer digimer 209K 2008-05-01 14:30 yum.list
> 
>   Notice the '+' signs at the end of a couple of those file's mode 
> strings? Any idea what they are or what they mean?

Posix acl.

Use getfacl/setfacl to play with those.  They can be very useful,
especially with samba.

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Len Sorensen
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