RHBA-2009:1575 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated star package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

The star utility is a tape- and disk-archiving tool similar to tar that
supports saving Access Control List (ACLs) permission information.

This updated star package fixes the following bug:

• restoring directories which had default ACL permissions set when they

were archived with the star utility did not result in those ACL permissions
correctly being restored after extraction. This update fixes the problem so
that the default ACL permissions are correctly restored on directories
extracted from a star archive. (BZ#450994)

All users of star are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 450994 - Restore from star archive does not resotre default acls.

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)