Re: Updated Release

[Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org>]

* Stephen Smalley (sds@epoch.ncsc.mil) [031003 15:45]:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 02:47, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > * Howard Holm (hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil) [031002 21:37]:
> > > The
> > > star package has been added.
> > 
> > is that the tar which was enhanced for backing up selinux
> > attributes?
> 
> It is not the patched tar program from the old SELinux.
> Instead, it is a patched form of Joerg Schilling's star(1) archiver.  He
> has incorporated the EA support into the upstream star, so we are able
> to leverage that support for storing the SELinux attributes in the
> archive, but there is a small SELinux-specific patch to use the SELinux
> API to create extracted files immediately with their SELinux security
> context (rather than having to set the security context _after_ creating
> the file), since the xattr API does not support that functionality.

you mention the xattr api. can this tar be uses to restore
systems or parts of a system, bridging the 2.4 -> 2.6 switch? Or
is it only good for the version of selinux the backup was created
with?

i did not find the rpm (or srpm or tar) file for star on the
download page. what is the url to it?

and who has a backup script, switching from admin to backup
context, and backing up stuff?

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