From 593b48b7d98ffc2973cd43bf64b7a16f259fcfa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Scott Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 02:32:27 +0000 Subject: Extended attribute updates mainly from Andreas Gruenbacher. --- man/man5/attr.5 | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'man') 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) -- cgit v1.2.3