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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users File Permissions Post 302234089 by era on Tuesday 9th of September 2008 05:30:24 AM
Old 09-09-2008
No, they are stored in the directory along with the file name, date, etc.

On some platforms you can actually read the directory as a file and parse out these things, but it's stored in binary form so you need something which can cope with that (C or Perl?)
 

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uucheck(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       uucheck(1M)

NAME
uucheck - check the uucp directories and permissions file SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/uucp/uucheck [-v] [-x debug-level] DESCRIPTION
uucheck checks for the presence of the uucp system required files and directories. uucheck also does error checking of the Permissions file (/etc/uucp/Permissions). uucheck is executed during package installation. uucheck can only be used by the super-user or uucp. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -v Give a detailed (verbose) explanation of how the uucp programs will interpret the Permissions file. -x debug-level Produce debugging output on the standard output. debug-level is a number from 0 to 9. Higher numbers give more detailed debugging information. FILES
/etc/uucp/Devices /etc/uucp/Limits /etc/uucp/Permissions /etc/uucp/Systems /var/spool/locks/* /var/spool/uucp/* /var/spool/uucppublic/* ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWbnuu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
uucp(1C), uustat(1C), uux(1C), uucico(1M), uusched(1M), attributes(5) BUGS
The program does not check file/directory modes or some errors in the Permissions file such as duplicate login or machine name. SunOS 5.10 18 May 1993 uucheck(1M)
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