There is no equivalent of Window's file attributes for Linux ?
File attributes does not exist in Linux?
linux;filesystems
You might want to read the Linux extended attributes man page or see Extended File Attributes Rock! from Linux magazine. A more technical introduction that hints at the differences between Linux ACL's and extended attributes can be found in ht t p://users.suse.com/~agruen/acl/linux-acls/onlineLinux extended attributes are a more general framework that allows arbitrary attribute definition.Samba provides a mapping between Linux extended attributes and Windows file attributes for ACL's as shown in this article ht t p://pig.made-it.com/samba-file-rights.html#11775.