Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Plus sign '+' in file permissions References: From: pjacklam@online.no (Peter J. Acklam) Organization: Private Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:45:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Derek Mahar's message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:07:11 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Derek Mahar" wrote: > To what does the plus sign '+' refer at the end of the list of > file permissions in a Cygwin directory listing (for example, > -rw-rw-rw-+)? I'm unfamiliar with this permission since I've > never seen it in either Solaris or Linux directory listings. > Using bash or Windows Explorer, how do I enable or disable this > file permission? The "+" indicates that there is an ACL (Access Control List) entry associated with the file. I don't know about Linux, but ACLs are used on Solaris too. See the manual pages for "getfacl" and "setfacl". Peter -- Peter J. Acklam - pjacklam@online.no - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/