restoring facls after restore from tar

[Pierre A. Humblet]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 05:10:02PM -0500, Dick Repasky wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just restored an instance of cygwin from a tarball that had been created
> with "tar -cf - /cygdrive/c/cygwin". Everything worked fine except sshd
> (the only service that I run).  The problem turned out to be that file
> access control lists needed to be set on cygrunsrv and sshd.  Indeed, none
> of the facls in /bin and /usr/sbin were restored.  I set all files in /bin
> and /sbin to have the following acl:
> 
> user::rwx
> group::r-x
> group:root:rwx
> group:SYSTEM:rwx
> mask:rwx
> other:---
> 
> And, now, sshd starts fine.  
> 
> First question: am I missing anything that will bite me?

Does your site have a real issue with giving x (or rx) permission to everybody?
It's possible to do so, but then surprises do happen and you have to set acls
just right. For example /etc/passwd and /etc/group should be readable by all,
or at least by SYSTEM.
 
> Second question: how can I backup facls as part of a tar backup and 
> restore them?

tar does not store acls, AFAIK.

Pierre

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