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Hi fellow hardened devs: |
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I'm sorry for missing the meeting but things came up and the day got |
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hectic. It is an important meeting because we were to discuss: |
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1) what we want with toolchain.eclass - There is a move to get rid of |
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the eclas because it is "messy". This is probably a bad thing in |
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general and especially for hardened so we should discuss the pros and |
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cons and what we want. |
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2) what to do about tar and POSIX capabilities in the context of |
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building stage3's. Utilities like ping that used to be setuid to root |
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are now just using posix caps. But preserving xattrs with tar is |
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tricky. Since we dealt with this for the user.pax.* xattr namespace |
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jmbsvicetto asked us to look at security.capability. However, the issue |
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may now be mute because I just got a message from him that |
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tar --xattrs --xattrs-include=security.capability |
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--xattrs-include=user.* --acls -xjpvf |
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works to get us all the xattr goodies we need for hardened and gentoo in |
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general. |
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We should try to discuss 1 soon-ish before Cthulu awakens and madness |
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reigns in gentoo. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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D'Youville College |
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Buffalo, NY 14201 |
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(716) 829-8197 |
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