Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Nov 1 16:57:40 UTC 2008
Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2008 16:53:30 Chris Adams wrote:
>>> Its not a ping issue, its an installation issue. :) I can either chmod
>>> 4755 or capset cap_net_raw=ep during the installation. Upstream is not
>>> involved in this.
>> How do these new bits get backed up? I'm still working on getting
>> SELinux backed up correctly, and now this... <sigh> an admin's job is
>> never done.
>
> Since they are stored as xattrs, tar and star should do it if you tell them to
> get the extended attributes. Also, aide supports looking for changes in
> xattrs if you need that, too.
>
What about cp -a and rsync -a? I expect either of these to give me a
working system.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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