What does the dot at the end of the permissions in the output of "ls -lah" mean?
From info coreutils 'ls invocation'
under Linux
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.
From GNU.org under what information is listed:
GNU ls uses a ‘.’ character to indicate a file with a SELinux security context, but no other alternate access method.
This basically implies that the file has an Access Control List (ACL) with SELinux. You can set or delete ACL association for a file by using the setfacl
command