Meaning of "This file uses advanced permissions"?

[Reinhold Rumberger]

Am Donnerstag 30 Dezember 2010, um 01:56:42 schrieb D. R. Evans:
> Alan Dacey Sr. said the following at 12/29/2010 11:36 AM :
> > In Dolphin, right-click the file, pick Properties.  Under the Permissions
> > tab there is an 'Advanced Permissions' button.
> > Is there anything different about the problem files than a good file? 
> > The advanced permissions have to do with uder and group IDs, not sure
> > how they really work, I never needed them.
> 
> Well yes... the ordinary files don't say that they use "Advanced
> Permissions". The others do.
> 
> I've never needed them either :-) Goodness knows why they're suddenly being
> used and seem to be important for these few files.
> 
> Being a mostly-command-line guy I expected to see obvious differences in
> the output from "ls -al" and "lsattr" (I expect that all the GUI stuff is
> just essentially some kind of wrapper for these commands; that's often the
> case). But there's no obvious difference at all.

You can try to see whether the effective permissions for your user actually 
give you access. You can also try to remove acl support for the file system. 
In /etc/fstab, remove the acl option, if there is one.


There's one instance in which I actually needed ACLs. My sisters were using my 
desktop as a gaming machine (as opposed to doing their homework and such). So 
I went ahead and put them all in a group which I denied access to the games to 
without having to touch the pre-defined permissions for other users.
But that's the only time ACLs were ever necessary for me.

  --Reinhold