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

David Coulson david at davidcoulson.net
Sat Mar 13 09:20:07 EST 2010


It means there is an ACL associated with the file 'getfacl' will help.

On 3/12/10 9:52 PM, 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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