Where does the plus sign in file permissions come from?

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Otto,

Otto Kekäläinen [2010-03-17  9:43 +0200]:
> Ok, thanks. The bug is maybe a regression. Are there any significant
> changes to ACL in Lucid?

Not compared to Karmic, it hardly changed at all.

> The symptom involves that sometimes the ACL is on and sometimes off.
> Is there something else that puts the ACL on/off that the udev init
> script?

No, the udev script should be the only one. The intention is that the
user who has the current foreground console gets those extra ACL
privileges, and other users get them revoked if they loose the
foreground console (i. e. for user switching, etc.). This ensures that
hardware that you plug in gets activated for the "current" user.

Under which circumstances are they off for you?

Martin

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