[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#745796: shadow: Please enable ACL and xattr support

[Laurent Bigonville]

Source: shadow
Version: 1:4.1.5.1-1.1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

While investigating for an other bug (audit support) I saw that ACL and
xattr support was explicitly disabled in the debian/rules, is there any
reasons for this as it seems that libattr and libacl are available on
all the architectures (including the non-linux ones)?

If I understood the code well, this is used when creating a new user and
the /etc/skel is copied in his new $HOME.

So, shouldn't this be enabled?

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash