Bryan J. Smith wrote: >getfacl can dump an entire tree's permissions to a file -- >both UNIX and Extended Attributes (EA) Access Control Lists >(ACLs). You could then rsync that file, and run it on the >other side. In >fact, that's how I deal with the fact I don't want another >system login in to SSH as root. > >Basically: > cd /wherever > syncstamp="`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`" > getfacl -R . > .facl_${syncstamp} > rsync -ave "ssh" . reguser at otherserver > rm .facl_${syncstamp} > >And then a root cronjob on another server basically looks for >.facl_* files periodically and runs: > cd /whereever > set -o noglob > for ifacl in .facl_*; do > setfacl --restore=${ifacl} > rm ${ifacl} > done > >In fact, since Red Hat insists on not supporting XFS with its >xfsdump that maintains EAs, and Ext3's dump does nothing of >the sort (and I'm not a huge fan of star), I use getfacl to >store the original ACLs with my backup in a file included >with the backup. > > > > > That 's great Bryan! Thanx