Forgive me for being dense, but can you expand on your concerns? Doug
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > I'm starting to have a bad feeling about mergemaster and /etc's full of > acl and mac labels... > > Robert Watson wrote: > > > > I have local patches submitted by Chris Faulhaber to copy ACLs when a file > > is copied (or moved between file systems) that I've been meaning to finish > > testing and merge. Likewise, for gzip, bzip, and others when a file is > > replaced. This wouldn't address the general issue of copying extended > > attributes, but is a necessary step. Presumably if we did extend cp, et > > al, to copy EA's, they should explicitly copy only user namespace EAs, not > > system EAs. There's been some recent e-mail on the Linux side about > > interfaces to copy ACLs from one file to another, but I haven't had a > > chance to review those changes as yet to see whether we should pick them > > up. > > -- If it's moving, encrypt it. If it's not moving, encrypt it till it moves, then encrypt it some more. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message