CentOS - Sep 2014 - C6 : "extra" file access permission ?

In C5.10 when I do a "ls -al" (or .l as I am lazy) I see:-

drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Dec  4  2013 alias


In C6.5 (2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64) I see:-

drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4096 Sep  9 04:26 conf
drwxrwxrwt.  4 root root 4096 Sep 21 03:39 tmp
drwxr-xr-x.  9 root root 4096 Sep  9 04:26 spool
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   10 Sep  8 21:45 mail -> spool/mail

I have never noticed the "extra dot" before.

QUESTION

What does the extra dot (.) signify ?

Thank you,

Paul

(Supporting Yes for Scotland)

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net>
wrote:
>
>
> In C5.10 when I do a "ls -al" (or .l as I am lazy) I see:-
>
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Dec  4  2013 alias
>
>
> In C6.5 (2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64) I see:-
>
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4096 Sep  9 04:26 conf
> drwxrwxrwt.  4 root root 4096 Sep 21 03:39 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x.  9 root root 4096 Sep  9 04:26 spool
> lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   10 Sep  8 21:45 mail -> spool/mail
>
> I have never noticed the "extra dot" before.
>
> QUESTION
>
> What does the extra dot (.) signify ?
>
The extra dot means selinux ACL. If you find a +, it's general ACL;
space means no aditional Access Control List.

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Marcelo

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vida?" (Mafalda)