On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Vic Gedris wrote:
It means there's an access control list (getfacl / setfacl...). You're right, the documentation should be way more obvious. "man ls" should point to that.
rday wrote:
typically, extended permissions such as ACLs.
...except attibutes such as "immutable" which you need chattr/lsattr to get at (and which I find quite useful for additional data protection).
Vic and Robert, thanks for pointing me in the right direction last week. I really appreciated that.
I was familiar with acl in general, but had used it much so didn't remember it, and was incorrectly looking in the lsattr direction.
Coincidentally, in the past week, I also realized that getfacl/ setfacl was just the tool I need to save and restore tight web server file permissions around updates (for piwik.org - it's a great FLOSS webserver analytics tool if anyone need one) that requires webserver-writable file perms during updates.
Brett