On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:25:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 02:22 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote: >> Looking at file permissions, I see there is a . at the end of the >> permissions. As in >> >> >> [root@phoenix ~]# ls -l somefile >> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 2009-07-14 22:20 somefile >> >> ^ >> here >> >> That's new to me. What does it mean? Where is it documented? > >>From "info coreutils 'ls invocation'": > > 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. > > poc Thank you, I suspected it had to be SELinux. Guess I've never seen it till now because I've never used SELinux till now. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
