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Latest revision as of 19:30, 15 August 2013
Beyond the normal permissions files can have attributes set to control how a file can be used.
Change and Set Attributes
chattr +<attribute> <file>
chattr -<attribute> <file>Attributes
- Append Only (a)
Prevents deletion, text can only be added to the end of the file.
- no dump (d)
Prevents backups with the dump command
- extent format (e)
Set with ext file system - cannot be removed
- immutable (i)
No Deletion or changes Possible
- indexed (l)
Set indexes for searching - cannot be removed