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.
>
>

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    If it's moving, encrypt it. If it's not moving, encrypt
      it till it moves, then encrypt it some more.

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