Package: fai-client
Version: 3.1.8
Severity: wishlist
I like using fcopy for maintaining tarballs of configuration files for a
bunch of hosts. The "file-modes" file permits me to own/edit/maintain
my repository of configuration files as a non-privileged user because
fcopy, when given a list of classes and run recursively using my
repository as the source, produces a target tree of files with exactly
the right owners, groups, and permissions.
Unfortunately, the owner of the *directories* of the resulting tree is
the un-privileged user and the directory modes are all 755. This means
that I cannot simply copy the resulting tree to the target machine.
This could be fixed if the "file-modes" file applied to directories as
well as files.
In the meantime, I manage the situation by carefully maintaining the
configuration repository as root with each directory given the right
owner, group, and perms (usually root,root,0755), but I prefer not
depending on root access.
Somebody else already made this request back in November 2004, but not
to the BTS as far as I can see. Here is the thread:
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2004-November/002568.html
Thanks in advance for considering this feature request.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (991, 'stable'), (33, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-vserver-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages fai-client depends on:
ii cfengine2 2.1.20-1 Tool for configuring and maintaini
ii file 4.17-5etch3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.20 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii perl 5.8.8-7etch3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
fai-client recommends no packages.
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