On Friday 28 December 2007 21:55, David Boyes wrote: > > Unless you are talking about something new of which I am unaware, this > > has > > > been implemented in Bacula for quite some time. It is enabled with > > the > > > "ACL > > Support = yes" directive. > > No, extended attributes are much more than just ACLs. The current item > in the list about using SAML to represent the attributes is closer to > what he wants. > > Transforming platform-specific extended attributes into SAML would be > the long-term way to do this, because then you could express any > security or attribute relationship, not just SELinux contexts. I'd want > them for dataset parameters for operating systems that require them, you > could express the full Windows security management syntax, VSAM cluster > information, etc, etc. It'd go beyond just the Unix semantics and really > handle the entire set of metadata possibilities. >
As a long term project this has value, but it is a big project. On the other hand, Frank's feature request could be relatively easily implemented with code similar to what is currently used for ACLs. Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
