[Gllug] file permissions on redhat 6

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:37:18AM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I am playing with a beta of the up coming redhat enterprise 6.
> >
> > I notice that at the end of the permissions with 'ls -l' there is an extra character,
> > it always seems to be a '.'. Can someone point me to where I can find out what it is
> > about. The 'man' command don't help:
> >
> >        -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 908 Jul 29 18:25 /etc/passwd
> 
> It shows that the file has an SELinux security context. It's been in
> Fedora for quite a while now. From the GNU Coreutils docs:

Thanks.

It is going to break a hell of a lot of shell scripts that parse the output of 'ls'.

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