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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:31:00 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Cannot change file permission with either chmod or setfacl
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Laurent Monnoye wrote:

> $ chmod 600 foo
> 
> $ ls -l foo
> -rw-r--r-- 0 xotrader01 Users 4 Sep  5 18:05 foo

You've left out the most relevant detail: what type of filesystem does
foo reside on?  NTFS, FAT, NFS, Samba?

Brian

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