Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Nov 1 17:25:12 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
Read the man page. You need to pass -X or -xattrs to preserve extended
attributes.
Rahul
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