Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?

[Steve Grubb]

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.

-Steve