[OE-core] [PATCH] shadow: 'useradd' copies root's extended attributes

[Patrick Ohly]

On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 15:33 +0100, José Bollo wrote:
> A possibility would be to filter the copied extended attributes. For
> SELinux we can just tell to not copy "security" attributes. See
> manual of the command "tar" (recent version) that has options
> --xattrs-exclude and --xattr-include.
> 
> Is there a need to copy extended attributes except for Smack?

In theory file-based capabilities. In practice those probably don't
occur in a home directory template.

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