I've created a patch for libarchive that allows storing and restoring MAC
labels from/to a multilabel filesystem using bsdtar. Now before going
anywhere with this I had a few questions:
- how much general interest is there in such a feature? Would this be a
welcome addition to libarchive, either "upstream" or as integrated in the
system source tree. I would be especially interested in the opinion of
people who have already been involved with the MAC development.
- right now the labels are stored silently, similar to ACL-s and extended
attributes. They are not extracted by default, only when the '-p' option
is specified (default as root). This seems consistent, however it would
also be possible to add a switch so that the labels wouldn't be archived
unless explicitly requested.
- the labels are stored in text representation, as converted by
mac_to_text(). This could potentially cause some future breakage, if the
text representation ever changes. Also, restoring a label partially
(let's say a biba+MLS label with only biba enabled) does not work. Any
thoughts on that?
Thanks,
Priit.
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