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reminder about linux file permissions

Just a reminder for you linux admins – chmod is not the end of file permissions in ext2/ext3. You also need to lsattr/chattr to cover all your file permission bases. Thanks to DoctorWho for the tip.

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One Response to “reminder about linux file permissions”

  1. curious Says:
    January 5th, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    Some linuxes offer ACL support on top of ext3… so check your ACLs with setacl and getacl too 😉

    http://web.bostonlinux.net/file-management/acl

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