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diff --git a/man/man5/attr.5 b/man/man5/attr.5 index 1e7a495..b2d69e9 100644 --- a/man/man5/attr.5 +++ b/man/man5/attr.5 @@ -70,14 +70,13 @@ attributes are defined by the file permission bits. The file permission bits of regular files and directories are interpreted differently from the file permission bits of special files and symbolic links. For regular files and directories the file -permission bits define access to the file's contents, while for special +permission bits define access to the file's contents, while for device special files they define access to the device described by the special file. The file permissions of symbolic links are not used in access checks. These differences would allow users to consume filesystem resources in a way not controllable by disk quotas for group or world writable special files and directories. .PP -For this reason, extended user attributes are disallowed for symbolic links and -special files, and access to extended user attributes is restricted to the +For this reason, extended user attributes are only allowed for regular files and directories, and access to extended user attributes is restricted to the owner and to users with appropriate capabilities for directories with the sticky bit set (see the .BR chmod (1) |