Re: Bug#472590: RFC: changing the "+" in ls -l output to be "." or "+"

[Michael Stone]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 09:19:07AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> Speaking as a fairly new SELinux user/admin, having a "." 
> next to every file in my ls output is just as useful or 
> non-useful as having a "+" next to them, so does it really 
> buy anything?

It buys something if you're unaware that selinux is enabled on the 
system and you can't understand why you can't do something even though 
the file permissions say you should be able to. That's the whole point 
of havin an alternate-acl indicator--so you know when looking at the 
permissions that they aren't the whole story. One thing about selinux 
users is that they sometimes forget that some people aren't...

Mike Stone