[colug-432] What is the meaning of a trailing "+" in "ls -l" permissions output?

[Tim Randles]

Extended ACLs are enabled on the filesystem.

For more:
http://www.suse.de/~agruen/acl/linux-acls/online/

Tim

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Bill Baker <bill_chris at earthlink.net>wrote:

> If you type 'info ls' at a command prompt, it will tell you (about 79%
> of the way through) the following:
>
> "A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is marked
> with a `+' character."
>
> And according to the web page:
>
> http://www.cims.nyu.edu/cgi-comment/man.cgi?section=1&topic=ls
>
> It means that a non-trivial ACL (access control list) is associated with
> the file.
>
> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 18:52 -0800, Peter Kukla wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to $DEFAULT_SEARCH_ENGINE this, but thought I'd ask here, too,
> since I'm find that it's not exactly the easiest thing to search for.
> >
> > I saw on a Red Hat (?) box today file permissions that included a
> trailing + character.  I've never seen that before, and I'm trying to figure
> out what it indicates:
> >
> >    -rw-rwxr--+
> >
> > Does anyone out there have a URL handy that explains what this means?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> >
> > -peter
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