On 13 September 2011 21:31, Helmut Drodofsky <drodofsky at internet-xs.de> wrote: > > I find nowhere the explanation of the dot in file permissions like: > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 457 Aug 4 17:27 config > > I have searched in forums, Red Hat deployment guide, storage administration > guide etc … >From info coreutils --> ls --> "what information is listed": "GNU `ls' uses a `.' character to indicate a file with an SELinux security context, but no other alternate access method."