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| diff --git a/usr.sbin/extattrctl/extattrctl.8 b/usr.sbin/extattrctl/extattrctl.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ea5f69c61126 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/extattrctl/extattrctl.8 @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +.\"- +.\" Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Robert N. M. Watson +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This software was developed by Robert Watson for the TrustedBSD Project. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" Developed by the TrustedBSD Project. +.\" Support for file system extended attribute. +.\" +.Dd March 30, 2000 +.Dt EXTATTRCTL 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm extattrctl +.Nd manage UFS1 extended attributes +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Cm start +.Ar path +.Nm +.Cm stop +.Ar path +.Nm +.Cm initattr +.Op Fl f +.Op Fl p Ar path +.Ar attrsize +.Ar attrfile +.Nm +.Cm showattr +.Ar attrfile +.Nm +.Cm enable +.Ar path +.Ar attrnamespace +.Ar attrname +.Ar attrfile +.Nm +.Cm disable +.Ar path +.Ar attrnamespace +.Ar attrname +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +utility +is the management utility for extended attributes over the UFS1 file system. +It allows the starting and stopping of extended attributes on a file system, +as well as initialization of attribute backing files, and enabling and +disabling of specific extended attributes on a file system. +.Pp +The first argument on the command line indicates the operation to be +performed. +Operation must be one of the following: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Cm start Ar path +Start extended attribute support on the file system named using +.Ar path . +The file system must be an UFS1 file system, and the UFS_EXTATTR kernel +option must have been enabled. +.It Cm stop Ar path +Stop extended attribute support on the file system named using +.Ar path . +Extended attribute support must previously have been started. +.It Xo +.Cm initattr +.Op Fl f +.Op Fl p Ar path +.Ar attrsize attrfile +.Xc +Create and initialize a file to use as an attribute backing file. +You must specify a maximum per-inode size for the attribute in bytes in +.Ar attrsize , +as well as the file where the attribute will be stored, using +.Ar attrfile . +.Pp +The +.Fl f +argument may be used to indicate that it is alright to overwrite an +existing attribute backing file; otherwise, if the target file exists, +an error will be returned. +.Pp +The +.Fl p Ar path +argument may be used to preallocate space for all attributes rather than +relying on sparse files to conserve space. +This has the advantage of guaranteeing that space will be available +for attributes when they are written, preventing low disk space conditions +from denying attribute service. +.Pp +This file should not exist before running +.Cm initattr . +.It Cm showattr Ar attrfile +Show the attribute header values in the attribute file named by +.Ar attrfile . +.It Cm enable Ar path attrnamespace attrname attrfile +Enable an attribute named +.Ar attrname +in the namespace +.Ar attrnamespace +on the file system identified using +.Ar path , +and backed by initialized attribute file +.Ar attrfile . +Available namespaces are "user" and "system". +The backing file must have been initialized using +.Cm initattr +before its first use. +Attributes must have been started on the file system prior to the +enabling of any attributes. +.It Cm disable Ar path attrnamespace attrname +Disable the attributed named +.Ar attrname +in namespace +.Ar attrnamespace +on the file system identified by +.Ar path . +Available namespaces are "user" and "system". +The file system must have attributes started on it, and the attribute +most have been enabled using +.Cm enable . +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +.Dl extattrctl start / +.Pp +Start extended attributes on the root file system. +.Pp +.Dl extattrctl initattr 17 /.attribute/system/md5 +.Pp +Create an attribute backing file in /.attribute/system/md5, and set the maximum +size of each attribute to 17 bytes, with a sparse file used for storing +the attributes. +.Pp +.Dl extattrctl enable / system md5 /.attribute/system/md5 +.Pp +Enable an attribute named md5 on the root file system, backed from the file +/.attribute/system/md5. +.Pp +.Dl extattrctl disable / md5 +.Pp +Disable the attribute named md5 on the root file system. +.Pp +.Dl extattrctl stop / +.Pp +Stop extended attributes on the root file system. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ffs 4 , +.Xr getextattr 8 , +.Xr setextattr 8 , +.Xr extattr 9 +.Sh HISTORY +Extended attribute support was developed as part of the TrustedBSD Project, +and introduced in +.Fx 5.0 . +It was developed to support security extensions requiring additional labels +to be associated with each file or directory. +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Robert N M Watson | 
