Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?

[Steve Grubb]

On Wednesday 29 October 2008 17:11:50 Chris Adams wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> That's the same way SELinux contexts are stored, right (so anything that
> handles extended attributes for SELinux should handle this as well)?

Yes, that is the theory. I haven't personally done it, but if that doesn't 
work we need a bz filed.

-Steve