Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:41:15 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne.geraghty@heuristicsystems.com.au> Cc: priit@cc.ttu.ee, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: RE: libarchive and MAC labels Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306181340470.15633@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <62DD3F47DDCD4105AC023171CCF8BDA2@white> References: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1306101748380.429@chu> <62DD3F47DDCD4105AC023171CCF8BDA2@white>
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: >> I've created a patch for libarchive that allows storing and restoring MAC >> labels from/to a multilabel filesystem using bsdtar. Now before going >> anywhere with this I had a few questions: ... > Thank-you for addressing a significant backup/recovery shortcoming. > > I've used biba extensively, however if files/directories are backed-up with > MLS+biba and recovered in a biba only environment, that is the sysadmin > choice. Warning messages are fine, but the restoration should continue (if > possible). I'd also like to see this go back into libarchive; I suspect many people would find this useful. Robert
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