<div class="gmail_quote">On 7 December 2010 15:11, Werner Maes <<a href="mailto:Werner.Maes@icts.kuleuven.be">Werner.Maes@icts.kuleuven.be</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Is there a way to remove the dot that you can see when you do an 'ls -al' on the filesystem (e.g. below) Apparently the . is to notify you that SELINUX is in control with no other access controls. </blockquote><div> From "info ls": Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies whether an alternate access method such as an access control list applies to the file. When the character following the file mode bits is a space, there is no alternate access method. When it is a printing character, then there is such a method. GNU `ls' uses a `.' character to indicate a file with an SELinux security context, but no other alternate access method. A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is marked with a `+' character. So no, there doesn't seem to be a way to hide this. jch </div></div>