Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?

[Rahul Sundaram]

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