use extended attributes by default on /home?

Jeff Waugh jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com
Sat Jan 29 19:29:01 CST 2005


<quote who="Matt Zimmerman">

> > I think this is something we'll have to leave for the next release (when
> > Beagle *may* be in main). It's a pretty low-level change, and we should
> > make sure it has lots of testing time, etc.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> (and to answer the other question, no, /home is not a separate filesystem
> by default, and this change would need to be made on the root filesystem)

Any security concerns with user_xattr, particularly on / ?

- Jeff

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