On Wednesday, 9 January 2019 12:14:47 PM AEDT Tim Connors via luv-main wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Glenn McIntosh wrote:
On 8/1/19 11:44 pm, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
Below is an example. Is there a good way of preserving capabilities apart from running "getcap /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/bin/* /usr/sbin/*" and storing the output?
Since the capabilities are stored using extended attributes, then using the '-X' flag on rsync should do the trick. You may need to be root user to be able to create these on the destination (or alternatively use fake-super on rsync).
rsync flags I frequently see people forget to use on rsync when they want the destination to be exactly the same as the source:
rsync -HAXS
Thanks Tim and Glenn. Not surprising that rsync could do what I wanted but I just didn't know where to look. getfattr from the attr package on debian can give a list of xattrs that are in use. # getfattr -m - /bin/ping getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: bin/ping security.capability security.selinux -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/