[CentOS] Weird permission

Fri Jul 31 09:46:53 UTC 2009
Mike A. Harris <mharris at mharris.ca>

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muhammad panji wrote:
> Dear all,
> I got weird permission on one of my server, when I ls -l the / i got
> permission for all directory set to "drwxr-xr-x." there are dot after
> the executable permission for others. what dot mean in permission and
> how to fix it? the actual problem is I could login via ssh but cannot
> login via winscp. any idea how to fix this? thanks in advance
> best regards,

IIRC, the "." at the end of the permissions indicates that the file has
additional permission controls beyond the standard DAC bits, such as
filesystem ACLs, filesystem capabilities, or other attributes.

Filesystem capabilities support is not present in CentOS 5, so are you
using ACLs?  What does the following show:

getfacl --tabular /*


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