What is the "+" in "drwxrwsr-x+"
From info ls
, under the What information is listed?
section, regarding the output produced by -l
:
A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is marked with a '+' character.
Generally, it means it has an ACL set.
As stated by @MadHatter this means the File/Directory has additional right trough Access Control Lists. Usually the Owner:Group system is enough, but in some cases you need a fainer grained permission control. There comes the acl system in touch.
To see the acls on a specific file/dir simply type:
getfacl myfileordir
For changing the permissions use the setfacl
command. See in the man page of it, for the proper syntax.