[Pkg-shadow-devel] files with ACLs in skel dir

[Nicolas François]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:24:52PM +0100, pvrabec at redhat.com wrote:
> Dear upstream,
> 
> I have received customer request, where customer asked for preserving ACLs of 
> files in  /etc/skel/* when new user is created. I was told that this mechanism 
> already works in SUSE Enterprise Linux. If you consider it useful, please take 
> a look at the patch. It will probably need more adjustment. It's just the first 
> version that works for me.

I will have a better look later.
I will probably need to add a configure block to detect in libacl is
present.

A nice addition could also be the support for extended attributes (xattr).


If I remember correctly, copy_tree is also used to move the home directory
when an user's home directory is changed. In that case, should the ACLs be
copied as is, or is it possible/needed to modify the ACLs (e.g. if the
user id is changed)?

If I document the support for ACLs, I will document that ACLs should be
modified/checked manually (i.e. changing the UID of an user with usermod will
probably break other's file ACLs).

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral