From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil ([144.51.5.4]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h94Cf4Wt000390 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 08:41:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id h94BeX7d019390 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 11:40:33 GMT Received: from markus.schuldei.com (petrus.schuldei.org [81.27.1.16]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id h94BeWRn019384 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 11:40:32 GMT Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:40:20 +0200 From: Andreas Schuldei To: Stephen Smalley Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: Updated Release Message-ID: <20031004114020.GA7845@markus.schuldei.org> References: <1065114741.27477.3042.camel@moss-huskies> <20031003064750.GA4555@markus.schuldei.org> <1065188703.4080.114.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1065188703.4080.114.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov * 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? -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.