On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 09:00:59AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > I've been backing up my system with rsync years without > the --xattrs option. I'm curious if important parts of > Debian/Devuan rely on extended attributes.
Type: ｢getcap -r /bin /sbin /usr /lib｣. If anything pops up, you'd lose the functionality of that program after a restore. Note that these caps are set in postinst conditionally, requiring capability support in the kernel and filesystem, plus userspace tool (libcap2-bin). This is installed by default, but if you started with a minimal install, you won't have it. In such cases, the fallback is to set the relevant programs setuid root, which is far less secure. The other good use I know of is selinux, which I have never played with. Then there's Chromium and wget's tracking. There are also ACLs but I haven't used those either. Thus: capabilities, selinux labels, ACLs, user namespace; that's all I'm aware of. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ When I visited the US a couple decades ago, Hillary molested and ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ groped me. You don't believe? Well, the burden of proof is on you! ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Flooding a douche with obviously false accusations makes your other ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ words dubious even when they happen to be true. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
