[CentOS] CentOS 6: file and directory permissions
John Doe
jdmls at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 13 12:25:45 UTC 2011
From: Helmut Drodofsky <drodofsky at internet-xs.de>
>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 …
Google "dot in permissions"...
Results will tell you to read the ls info page, which says:
Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies
whether an alternate access method such as an access control list
applies to the file. When the character following the file mode
bits is a space, there is no alternate access method. When it is
a printing character, then there is such a method.
GNU `ls' uses a `.' character to indicate a file with an SELinux
security context, but no other alternate access method.
A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is
marked with a `+' character.
JD
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