Re: Strange + sign after permissions on all files and directories

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Naive hint:
when I configured the config file for the kernel 2.6
I notice some options which enhance the permission
scheme: may be the + comes from there.

Jerome

Devin Atencio wrote:
> I have a Debian machine that I noticed has some strange behaviour. I
> noticed that when I do a listing of the files on the machine it appears
> like:
>
> drwxr-xr-x+ 102 root     root         8192 Jan  5 09:54 etc
> drwxr-xr-x+   2 root     root            6 Apr 25  2002 floppy
> drwxr-xr-x+  44 root     root         4096 Jan  2 17:10 home
> drwxr-xr-x+   2 root     root            6 Apr 25  2002 initrd
> drwxr-xr-x+   6 root     root         8192 Dec 29 15:34 lib
> drwxr-xr-x+   2 root     root            6 Feb  8  2002 mnt
>
> All files seem to have a strange + sign at the end of the permissions
> which would normally mean Access Control List in Solaris. I noticed
> also that when I try to run crontab -e as root it denies me access
> saying
>
> You (root) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)
> See crontab(1) for more information
>
> I am wondering if it has something to do with the + sign and some
> sort of Access Control list denying root access? How can I get
> it so that this Debian machine no longer displays the + sign next
> to any directory or file.
>
> Any immediate help would be appreciated.
>
> Devin Atencio