[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#683080: Bug#683080: Bug#683080: bacula-fd: Please build with libcap-dev

[Elrond]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 16:12:58 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
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> I would go even further: if I read it correctly, this should improves
> security, so I was wondering if it would be better to have it by
> default...

This is quite attractive, I can understand that.
Really I would love to see this.

BUT ...

... it will stop nice restores.
You have to restore to /tmp and all the restored files will
be owned by nobody and not the original owner. I don't know
if people are ready for this.

In a first step, I would suggest to add the capability
support, so that users can play with this feature and
learn.

In a second step, I would suggest making it easy for users
to enable this feature (maybe commented version in
/etc/default/bacula-fd?)
Or maybe add a debconf knob directly? So that people can
enable it easily while installing bacula-fd on all of their
client machines?


Just my personal thoughts.


Cheers

Elrond